稻草人

稻草人 (1987)

In 1940s Taiwan, during the last days of Japanese rule, an impoverished farming village is less concerned with colonial politics than with feeding their families. One day, an American bomb falls onto a field, where it lies unexploded.

Data di uscita
1987-01-02
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (16)
Durata
1 h 36 min
Generi
Dramma, Commedia, Guerra
Regista
王童

Cast

Curiosità

  • Premi: 1 · Candidature: 0. Tra cui: Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film

Strawman is a 1987 Taiwanese film directed by Wang Toon. It is the first feature of Wang's "Taiwan Trilogy,'' which also includes Banana Paradise and Hill of No Return. The film adopts a comic tone to depict the hardships of life as colonizers in rural Taiwan at the height of WWII. The film received positive reviews from critics and won the Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay in The 24th Golden Horse Awards.

Production

For Wang Toon the silent scarecrows in the movie represent the ordinary Taiwanese, inferior to the Japanese, under Japanese rule.

The disabled Taiwanese officer who served in the Japanese military is not played by an actor but a local villager at Su'ao, Yilan. During the shooting, Wang Toon insisted that the character of the wounded soldier be played by a disabled person. While the production team was having difficulty to find such an actor, they accidentally met the man in a Hotel near Su'ao. He became one of the significant characters in the movie.

Because of the language policy of Taiwan at the time when the film was made, the actors have to speak Mandarin in the whole film, despite the setting of the story being in a Taiwanese village. To be truthful to his own film, Wang Toon secretly produced a version of the film dubbed in Taiwanese, which is also the version that is digitally restored version of the film released in 2023 by the Taiwan Film and Audio-visual Institute.

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