I’ve been wanting to write about Hong Kong filmmaker Fruit Chan 陳果 for a while, but I always get stuck. I finally figured out the problem: his films don’t fit neatly into any of our preconceived categories. It wouldn’t be far off to call him the first neorealist of Hong Kong cinema – but you [...]
Back in January I read about how Taiwanese filmmaker Wei Te-sheng (魏德聖) is planning on making the “first Taiwanese epic,” about an Aborigine uprising against the Japanese which took place over 75 years ago. The film is tentatively titled Seediq Bale (賽德克巴萊). It seems they are still attempting to raise the money necessary to shoot [...]