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The Strait Story
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The Strait Story

Oct 21, 2005
1h 46m
★ 3.0

Overview

The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back home before leaving for China. He boards the passenger liner "Takachiho Maru" in Kobe, Japan, with his girlfriend, a pianist. Tragically, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan. Decades later, Shou-shou, a fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings in an exhibition. As she restores the painting, Shou-shou learns about the artist, the stories behind his work and his death at sea. She recreates the story of the painting "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the ways the artist painted his girlfriend. The more she studies, the more she was inspired by Huang's value of art and of life. Restoring Huang's painting thus becomes Shou-shou's way of ...

Genres

Romance
History

Cast

Freddy Lim

Freddy Lim

Janine Chang

Janine Chang

Yuki Hsu

Yuki Hsu

Jag Huang

Jag Huang

Bing-Chen Chen

Bing-Chen Chen

Ding-ya An

Ding-ya An

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