After blogging below, I couldn't sleep and decide to watch movie in my iphone. (1st movie of the year and become my favorite.)
Story start with a young man, A-ga (Van Fan Yi Chen, 范逸臣) returning to his hometown, after a failed career in Taipei as a rock singer . He began to find his life aimless and his step-father, a Town Council Representative, arrange him a job as a postman after an elderly postman (Uncle Mao) met with an accident and broke his leg.
A-ga ask to send back an undelivered parcel back to main post office. Curiousity, he open parcel and found love letters sending to Japanese-style address, Cape No. 7, Hengchun County, Takao Prefecture, which is no longer be found.
Meanwhile local beach resort is organizing a concert by a famous Japanese singer, Kousuke Atari. Town Council Representative insists they should add a slot for the local band to perform.
A Chinese speaking Japanese model, Tomoko (Chie Tanaka, 田中千絵) is assigned to in charge of organizing the concert. She met series difficult tasks from looking suitable persons for the band to manage the band. 6 different background people (2 young adults, A-ga & Rauma, 2 middle age man, Frog & Malasun, 1 young girl, Dada and an elderly, Uncle Mao) come together and form a band with A-ga leading. Tomoko's job get more difficult as band members refusing to cooperate and A-ga did not come out with new song with the concert coming near.
When she was about to give up and leave the town, she was invited by Uncle Mao to the one of the local's wedding, where she got drunk and ended up at A-ga room after venting frustrations outside A-ga’s house.
There she fall in relationship with A-ga, and found out the undelivered love letters A-ga has been keeping.
She decided to stay on to finish organizing the concert and tells A-ga that she will return to Japan with a job offer after the concert. Over a conversation with hotel maid, Ming-chu, she found out that the love letters recipient is Ming-chu's grandma and inform A-ga to deliver the love letters. After returning the love letters, heartbroken but determined A-ga returns to the beach resort and performs a highly successful concert with his local band along with Kousuke Atari. There he express his love to Tomoko and convinces her to stay.
In addition, the movie has a story from 1945. From begin to almost end, the movie is intercut with scenes of a Japanese man boarding ship leaving Taiwan after WW2, writing 7 love letters to a local lady, sharing the same name as Tomoko.
It is a colourful romance and comedy story set in the southern Taiwan seaside town of Hengchun. The film have an interesting cast of characters. The most notable is the elderly postman, Uncle Mao. (Not forgetting also Town Council Representative and other band members as well.) Most of the dialogue is in Taiwanese direct which adds to the down to earth flavor of the film and capture small town life quite well.
A-ga ask to send back an undelivered parcel back to main post office. Curiousity, he open parcel and found love letters sending to Japanese-style address, Cape No. 7, Hengchun County, Takao Prefecture, which is no longer be found.
Meanwhile local beach resort is organizing a concert by a famous Japanese singer, Kousuke Atari. Town Council Representative insists they should add a slot for the local band to perform.
A Chinese speaking Japanese model, Tomoko (Chie Tanaka, 田中千絵) is assigned to in charge of organizing the concert. She met series difficult tasks from looking suitable persons for the band to manage the band. 6 different background people (2 young adults, A-ga & Rauma, 2 middle age man, Frog & Malasun, 1 young girl, Dada and an elderly, Uncle Mao) come together and form a band with A-ga leading. Tomoko's job get more difficult as band members refusing to cooperate and A-ga did not come out with new song with the concert coming near.
When she was about to give up and leave the town, she was invited by Uncle Mao to the one of the local's wedding, where she got drunk and ended up at A-ga room after venting frustrations outside A-ga’s house.
There she fall in relationship with A-ga, and found out the undelivered love letters A-ga has been keeping.
She decided to stay on to finish organizing the concert and tells A-ga that she will return to Japan with a job offer after the concert. Over a conversation with hotel maid, Ming-chu, she found out that the love letters recipient is Ming-chu's grandma and inform A-ga to deliver the love letters. After returning the love letters, heartbroken but determined A-ga returns to the beach resort and performs a highly successful concert with his local band along with Kousuke Atari. There he express his love to Tomoko and convinces her to stay.
In addition, the movie has a story from 1945. From begin to almost end, the movie is intercut with scenes of a Japanese man boarding ship leaving Taiwan after WW2, writing 7 love letters to a local lady, sharing the same name as Tomoko.
It is a colourful romance and comedy story set in the southern Taiwan seaside town of Hengchun. The film have an interesting cast of characters. The most notable is the elderly postman, Uncle Mao. (Not forgetting also Town Council Representative and other band members as well.) Most of the dialogue is in Taiwanese direct which adds to the down to earth flavor of the film and capture small town life quite well.
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