Dao cao ren (1987)
- 1987
- ·94 min
During the last years of Japanese occupation in Taiwan, as tenants from the preceding generation, the family of Chan brothers was suffering from poor harvest.
With a deaf old mother, a mental disordered sister whose husband was killed in war, and a bunch of children, it was not hard to imagine that they were really poor.
One day, a heavy unexploded bomb fell down from the sky on two brothers' farmland.
The brothers brought the bomb to the Japanese police as a gift for the Emperor of Japan.
Unfortunately, the Japanese were frightened by the bomb and order them to throw it into the sea.
They could do nothing but obeyed the order.
The bomb exploded when thrown into the sea.
A great number of dead fishes came out of the sea.
The two brothers collected the fishes back home.
When they saw their exciting family enjoy the fishes, they felt that God is fair.
- Actors
- Chun Hsiung Ko·Chun-fang Chang·Mei-Chao Lin·Sheng Li Cho
- Directed by
- Toon Wang
- Genre
- Comedy·Drama·History
- Language
- Mandarin·Min Nan·Japanese
- Country
- Taiwan
- Director
- Toon Wang
Faro Island Film Festival 1987
- Best Film
Bogota Film Festival 1990
- Best Editing
- Best Screenplay
Strawman is a Taiwanese film set during the Second World War. At that time, Taiwan had been a Japanese colony for almost fifty years.
