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March of Happiness
4th(1999) A Window on Asian Cinema
- CountryTaiwan
- Production Year1999
- Running Time93min
- Format 35mm
- ColorCOLOR
Program Note
Set at a time when the Pacific War was coming to an end, this film tells of a sad love story at the time when Japan ruled over Taiwan. The difficult times of Taiwan′s modern history can be read
through the trials of a couple. A-Jin, who studied music in Japan, and A-Yu, who is a theatre actress, fall in love. However, A-Yu′s father has other plans for A-Yu, as he intends to marry her off to a
doctor′s son. Eventually A-Jin and A-Yu try to elope, only to meet with tragic consequences. The Tian-Ma coffee shop is the scene of a chaotic history that even the fateful couple can′t fully
understand. It was a shop where the Japanese, the Local Province people, and the Outer Province people met in one place and exchanged dialogue in Minnanhua, Mandarin and Japanese. However
the greatest irony was the tragic ending of lovers who became separated at the moment of joy of independence. This personal tragedy, however, was a premonition of the beginning of a tragic
history which permeated Taiwan. Kuomintang officer Hsaio-Bao′s intense hatred and paranoia towards the Japanese, resulting eventually in murder, also become the premonition of a history that
was troubled by the February 28th tragedy, and 40-odd years of state-of-emergency rule. Likewise, Tian-Ma coffee shop was a place where bittersweet love, artistic passion and tragic history co-
existed. However, it seems that to director Lin Cheng-Sheng, Tian-Ma Coffee shop is also a place of nostalgia. (Kim Ji-Seok)
Director
LIN Cheng-Sheng
Born in 1959 in a remote village in eastern Taiwan, Lin enrolled in a directing/scripting workshop in 1986 and began making documentaries. After his directorial debut with A
Drifting Life in 1996, Lin made his second feature Murmur of Youth which screened in the Director′s Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. His third feature film Sweet
Degeneration was shown at the 3rd PIFF.
Photo
Credit
- Director LIN Cheng-Sheng 린 청셩
- Producer Yeh Chin-Sheng
- Cast Lim Giong, Hsiao shu-shen, Leon Dai
- Screenplay Ko Su-Ching
- Cinematography Tsai Chao-Yi
- Production Design Tsai Cheng-Hui
- Editor Chen Hsiao-jing
- Sound Lin Show-Zong
- Production Company
Green Apple Company
c/o Taiwan Film Center, 4F, No. 19, Lane 2, Wan Li Street, Taipei 116, Taiwan
tfc@transend.com.tw
- World Sales
Taiwan Film Center
4F, No. 19, Lane 2, Wan Li Street, Taipei 116, Taiwan
tfc@transend.com.tw