Hsiao-Ming Hsu – Qu nian dong tian AKA Heartbreak Island (1995)

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A young woman named Lin-Lang has served a long jail term for terrorist actions against Taiwan’s rulmg KMT party. The society she returns to is very different from the one she left: former radicais have gone soft and become middle-class, the former political opposition has become respectableand lost its edge, everyone has grown nakedly materialistic. But the biggest shock for Lin-Lang is the discovery that her lover—the man who taught her radical politics, the man who got her pregnant, the man she went to jail for—has married someone else. He and his wife have a child, and he runs a small coffee-shop which doubles as a meeting-place for students of Chinese mysticism. Almost deranged with shock and the sense of betrayal, Lin-Lang impulsively kidnaps the man’s child…

Hsu Hsiao-Ming’s intense and sombre drama knocks down one more long-standing Taiwanese taboo by showing the KMT’s brutal attack on prodemocracy demonstrators in the city of Kaohsiung in 1979. But his point here is not to lament the death of old ideals. What concerns him is the way that real political questions have been made to seem irrelevant in the gogetting nineties, and the way that one young woman in particular reacts to having everything she believed in snatched away from her. Finally, you see, Heartbreak Island is a love story. A love story with a sad ending.

Hsiao-Ming Hsu - (1995) Heartbreak Island.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 2 min
Size: 	1.43 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	704x370 ~> 704x422
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	29.970 fps
Bit rate: 	1 451 kb/s
BPP: 	0.186
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/109AC5974DCDFE1/Hsiao-Ming_Hsu_-_(1995)_Heartbreak_Island.mkv

Language(s):Min Nan
Subtitles:Chinese, English (hard-coded)