Country: Taiwan
Year: 1994
Duration: 167'
Sega is still very young when he gets married and goes to live in Chioufen, a village in the mountains in northern Taiwan. He works in a mine and has two children. This all happens not many years after the Japanese defeat and the return of Taiwan to the Chinese. Sega has always felt more Japanese than Chinese and has taught his son Wen-Jian to call him "Dosan", an approximation of the Japanese "Tosan" (Papa). While fife in the village gets harder because the gold mine is about to close down, Sega's wife gives birth to a third son. A11 hell breaks lose in the house when Sega, the head of the family, loses his job and spends his days playing mahjong and going into debt. His wife abandons their marriage to become a nun, but a monk brings her back home. When Wen-Jian goes to Taipei to do his advanced studies, Sega begins to work in the mines again. He always takes the side of the Japanese, even if his health, which has been weakened by emphysema, does not allow him, to get as mad as he once did. When he is 55, he retires and moves with his whole family to Taipei. His health gets worse and tour years later he is diagnosed as a diabetic. When he enters the hospital in 1990, he tries to kill himself but is saved. He dies some time afterwards. In 1991 his son WenJian goes to Tokyo and finally fulfills his father's dream. He honors him by carrying his ashes to Japan and making him "see" Mount Fuji and the Meiji temple.
Biography
film director
Wu Nien-jen
DoSan - A Borrowed Life marks the debut as director of one of the most influential screenwriters of Taiwan's "New Cinema". Wu Nien-jen was born in 1952, and began writing film scripts in 1978, as an employee of the Central Motion Picture Corporation. He then formed affiances with virtually all the directors who went on to reinvent cinema in Taiwan, including Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Chang Yi and Wang Tong. Wu has written more then 70 film scripts to date. His credits include: Dust in the Wind, A City of Sadness and The Puppetmaster, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien.
FILMOGRAFIA
DoSan - A Borrowed Life (1994).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Wu Nien-Jen.
Director of photography: Liu Chengchuan.
Art director: Liu Chehua.
Editor: Liao Chingsong.
Music: Jjang Hsiaowen, Lin Huiling.
Sound: Du Duche.
Cast and characters: Tsai Chennan (Sega), Tsai Chioufong (la madre), Chung Yohong (WenJian), Cheng Kweichung, Fu Jun, Hsu Peiru.
Director of Production: Chow Chunyi.
Produttore esecutivo: Hou Hsiaohsien.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Long Shong International Co. Chang Shu A & V Production, 1921 Lane 2, Wan Li Street, Taipei, Taiwan, tel.: +8862-3111729, fax +8862 -3613718.
Director of photography: Liu Chengchuan.
Art director: Liu Chehua.
Editor: Liao Chingsong.
Music: Jjang Hsiaowen, Lin Huiling.
Sound: Du Duche.
Cast and characters: Tsai Chennan (Sega), Tsai Chioufong (la madre), Chung Yohong (WenJian), Cheng Kweichung, Fu Jun, Hsu Peiru.
Director of Production: Chow Chunyi.
Produttore esecutivo: Hou Hsiaohsien.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Long Shong International Co. Chang Shu A & V Production, 1921 Lane 2, Wan Li Street, Taipei, Taiwan, tel.: +8862-3111729, fax +8862 -3613718.
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