Just watched this movie.
Little info about the movie:
It was first shown on Taiwanese cinemas on 22 Aug 2008, following by Hong Kong on 20 Nov 2008 and then Singapore on 27 Nov 2008.
What's so great about the movie?
Taiwanese production lor! Like the Jay's movie "Secret"... Apparently, it has gain popularity in Taiwan with box-office accumulated to NT$215 million, surpassing The Lost World: Jurassic Park's 213-million accumulated Taipei sales record to become the 3rd top-selling film in Taiwan history. [copied from wikipedia lol...]
Story (spoiler ahead):
The story began around the 40s with the Japanese teacher fell in love with a local girl when he was sent to Hengchun town (恒春镇) in Taiwan. Then after Japan surrendered, he was forced to go back to Japan. On the way back, he wrote 7 love letters to her, feeling regret for leaving the girl.
Then here comes Aga (范逸臣), a youth from Hengchun town who couldn't gain success in Taipei as a rockband singer. He came back and his stepfather had got him a job as a postman. Then he came across this unsentable mail containing the 7 love letters as the place which the address refers to was missing already.
Then the local resort hotel planned to hold a beach concert featuring Japanese pop singer Kousuke Atari (中 孝介). But 范逸臣's stepfather, as the local council representative, insisted the opening band to consist of only the locals.
Tomoko (友子) was instructed to coordinate and manage the band. After a painful trial period, she and 范逸臣 had began a relationship. With the help of the hotel worker, 范逸臣 managed to find the rightful recepient of the 7 love letters.
Review:
Nothing computer graphic, no big action, 亲民朴素的题材一样得到效果。反应好不好不是看剧本，也不是看视听觉效果，而是电影能不能牵动观众的心。
Initially, the scenes at the front part of the movie didn't make up too much sense. What's the love letters, the love between the Japanese teacher and the local girl have to do with the movie? Only at the 2nd half of the movie then I can link up everything. It's the same with the love with 范逸臣 and the Japanese female lead Tomoko. The love between them which can't be expressed verbally collide with the 7 love letters.
The movie also depicts the 风土民情 in southern Taiwan and how ambitious a rural youth can be. The movie wants to bring out is it does not mean you can only get success when you are in big city, even if it's very kampung area, you still can make your success.
Of course, the movie ended with a beautiful ending. However, I would want to find out more if the duo decided to stay in Taiwan or move to Japan. The latter doesn't seem promising, given that Aga can't speak Japanese, but he can 闯出一片天 with the Japanese music company lor.
The Japanese female lead can speak Chinese quite well! But some of the pronounciation were very awkward, like the word 歌词 sounded like 鸽子... OMG...
Rating: 3.5/5
Today I received notification from Windows to free up more disk space, reason? See below.
LOL...
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