IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India

IFFI-2008
CINEMA OF THE WORLD
Taiwan
Cape No. 7
2008, 35 mm, Colour, 129 mins, Chinese
Aga left Hengchun for Taipei in the hope of becoming the singer in a band. After ten
years of hard work, he returns home, his dream unfulfilled, and soon gets a job at the
local post office. Tomoko is a Japanese model going down in popularity who is asked to
put together a local warm-up band for an upcoming Japanese super star beach concert to
be held in Hengchun. However, recruiting the band members proves to be as difficult a
task as the search for the famous seven samurai. Still, seven ordinary Hengchun
residents end up forming the band. One day, Aga receives a parcel from Japan not meant
for him - in fact, it was to have been delivered at Cape No.7., an address that doesn't exist
anymore … But even though he cannot find the address, Aga doesn't return the parcel to
Japan. Rather, he opens it to find love letters written some 60 years ago by a Japanese
teacher and addressed to a Taiwanese girl he was deeply in love with, but had to leave
behind in Taiwan. During the process of putting the band together, Aga and Tomoko are
constantly at odds with each another, but thanks to the love letters, their conflict-ridden
relationship slowly turns into love. And even though they eventually find the lady the
parcel was meant for, it seems that Aga and Tomoko are destined to follow the same
footsteps as the girl and the teacher in their own love story … Tomoko must now decide
whether she will stay together with Aga or go back to Japan alone.
Director
Wei Te-Sheng
Screenplay
Wei Te-Sheng
Cinematography
Chin Ting-Chang
Editor
Lai Hui-Chuan, Su Pei-I
Music
Fred Lu, Lo Chi-Yi
Cast
Van Tanaka Chie, Min-Hsiung, Ma Nien-Hsien, Ying Wei-
Min, Joanne, Johnny C.J. Lin, Shino Lin, Bjanav Zenror
Sound
Tu Duu-Chi
Production
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Festivals & Awards
Taiwan Official Entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at
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the 81 Academy Awards, 2009; Taipei (Audience Choice
Award, New Talent Competition), Pusan, Hawaii
Wei Te-Sheng's film career began when he found a job in a small production company.
In 1993, he became grip assistant in Edward Yang's film studio, and at the time when
Yang was filming Mahjong (1996), Wei was promoted from grip assistant to assistant
director. Then, from 1995 to 1998, he himself shot a number of shorts including Face in
the Evening (1995), Three Dialogues (1996) and Before Dawn (1997), all three of which
won Golden Harvest Award for Film and Digital Video. Following these, his first feature
film, About July (1999), was well received by film critics in Taiwan and was honored
with a Special Mention from the Alcan Dragons And Tigers Award For Young Cinema at
the Vancouver International Film Festival. Wei was also the associate producer of
Double Vision (2002), a film of the Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia.In 2004, he
raised 2.5 million dollars to shoot the trailer of Seediq Bale, the first step towards raising
200 million dollars to finance the shooting of the complete film. Wei always endeavours
to use the talent and ability of Taiwanese film artisans to their fullest.
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