A sharp pain made Fan Baode, who had always been strong, realize that his body could no longer withstand the passage of time. After a burst of firecra[Expand All]
A sharp pain made Fan Baode, who had always been strong, realize that his body could no longer withstand the passage of time. After a burst of firecrackers, the innkeeper's wife, Yu Qin, announced her entry into the village head election, going head-on with the Fan Baode family. As the election situation heats up and his illness becomes a source of worry, many past events are thus awakened from the depths of Fan Baode's memory. Perhaps because death was approaching, he decided to go to Japan with his son to inquire about news of his father who had been away from home for fifty years. On the other hand, Yuqin asked her nephew from Hong Kong to help her run for election. Although he was unfamiliar with the place, there seemed to be a subtle connection between them. The multi-threaded narrative that weaves through the past and the present, "Fan Baode" slowly reveals the deep yet subtle and indescribable bond of kinship between two generations, which is thicker than water. Through the recollections of the past and the experiences of the journey to search for his father, a grand and rarely seen portrait of Taiwan during the Cold War era in domestic films is indirectly revealed.[Collapse]
