On Happiness Road

On Happiness Road (2018)

幸福路上

Does our dream always come true as we expected?

Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness?

Date of release
2018-01-05
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (35)
Runtime
1h 51m
Genres
Animation, Drama
Director
Sung Hsin-Yin

Casting

Interesting facts

On Happiness Road is a 2017 Taiwanese animated film written and directed by Sung Hsin-yin, her directoral debut. The film is based on her own animated short of the same name which won start-up funding at the Golden Horse Awards in 2013. It was screened at the Busan International Film Festival on October 15, 2017, and saw a theatrical release in Taiwan on January 5, 2018.

Production

Sung was inspired to tell her personal story of growing up in Taiwan in film school at Columbia College Chicago after the film Persepolis (film) during a class. After graduation, she created a 13-minute short animation which won the grand prize at the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion in 2013. The award of 1 million NTD allowed her to start expanding the short into a full-length feature.

The film is entirely hand-drawn, with some of the animation done in Indonesia.

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