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2.27am, Friday, 121208, Warm

Everyone has dreams. Some wish to be a singer, while others might want to be a famous artiste…

Just like the director of the movie, Cape No. 7. While the process of shooting this movie, Cape No. 7, director Wei Te-sheng had to borrow money from people, friends to keep his movie dream fulfilled. I came to know about this during an interview article. It was not an easy for the director of Cape No. 7.

Yet, this home production, Taiwan movie has proved that with a good plot, interesting characters, a Taiwan production can also made a name in the Golden Horse Award or even in other award ceremony.

Background

Cape No. 7 is about Aga who left Hengchun for Taipei in the hope of becoming the singer in a band. After ten years of hard work, he returns home, his dream unfulfilled, and soon gets a job at the local post office. Tomoko is a Japanese model going down in popularity who is just asked to put together a local warm-up band for an upcoming Japanese super star beach concert to be held in Hengchun. However, recruiting the band members proves to be difficult a task as the search for the famous seven samurai. Still, seven ordinary Hengchun residents end up forming the band.

One day, Aga receives a parcel from Japan not meant for him – in fact, it was to have been delivered at Cape No.7., an address that doesn’t exist anymore… But even though he cannot find the address, Aga doesn’t return the parcel to Japan. Rather, he opens it to find love letters written some 60 years ago by a Japanese teacher and addressed to a Taiwanese girl he was deeply in love with, but had to leave behind Taiwan.

During the process of putting the band together, Aga and Tomoko are constantly at odds with each other, but thanks to the love letters, their conflict-ridden relationship slowly turns into love.

And even though they eventually find the lady the parcel was meant for, it seems that Aga and Tomoko are destined to follow the same footsteps as the girl and the teacher in their own love story… Tomoko must now decide whether she will stay together with Aga or go back to Japan alone.

My own personal view:

This movie might not be compared to Hollywood blockbusters yet in this movie, you will be able to see interesting characteristics, not a matter of age, from the youngest girl who play the piano to the oldest in the band, it is the uniqueness of the characteristics who enlighten the audience especially Taiwan audiences to be so supportive of their home grown movie.

Can our local production be able to stand out from Hollywood movies and just like Cape No. 7 be the second most selling movie in 2008?

We shall witness it…

Rating

3.7 out of 5

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