Country: Taiwan
Year: 1962
Duration: 98'
Set in Taiwan in the 1960s, the film portrays how the native Taiwanese and the mainlanders (Chinese immigrants who arrived in Taiwan after 1949) live side by side in the community near Lung Shan Temple. In order to support her ailing father, Hsiao-fang sells medicinal wine at a market stall. Dreaming of becoming a singer, Hsiao-fang attracts the customers’ attention by her enchanting voice. Both Tang Liang, a young native Taiwanese man working at the radio station, and Lo Chung, a young photographer from mainland China, have fallen for beautiful Hsiao-fang. Trying to win her heart, Tang Liang and Lo Chung not only do everything they can for her but come up with all sorts of tricks to impress the girl. While pursuing love, the trio laugh and clash with one another. Soon, their entwined fates will take them by surprise, showing them the possibility of living together in harmony.
Biography
film director
Pai Ko
(China, 1914-1964) was a director and film critic. In 1937 he won a scholarship to study at the Moscow Film School, however, the war broke out, stopping him from attending. In 1945, Pai arrived in Taiwan with the KMT government and served as the head of the Taiwan Film Studio, making newsreels and propaganda films. Between 1956 and 1962, Pai made eleven Taiwanese-language films and was best known for The Mad Woman’s 18 Years and Romance at Lung Shan Temple. In 1962, he was arrested by Taiwan Garrison Command for “colluding with the enemy of the state from abroad” and was executed in 1964. In addition to directing, Pai taught at National Taiwan College of Arts and wrote as a film critic, exerting a profound influence on the Taiwanese film industry and filmmakers. Film critic Huang Jen hails Pai as the “first Taiwanese film critic.”
FILMOGRAFIA
Huang di zi sun (Descendants of the Yellow Emperor, 1956), Tripitaka Saves Mother (1957), Tai Nan Wu Ye Da Xue An (1957), Mad Woman For 18 Years (1957), Songs of Southern Island (1958), Sheng Si Lian (1958), Ah Ding Disturbs Dance Ensemble (1962), Long Shan Si zhi lian (Romance at Lung Shan Temple, 1962).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Pai Ko. SCREENPLAY: Pai Ko, Tien-jung Hsu. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Chao Chiang. EDITING: Cheng-ching Wang. MUSIC: Lee Lam. CAST: Miao Ching, Hsueh-Fang Chuang, Tou Hu, Yun Ling, Li-Hua Su, Ching Tang, Ai-Chi Tsai. PRODUCER: Pao-ling Jen. PRODUCTION: Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute.