Tang Shiang-chu

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.

“Siaulian”, who is released from prison and trying to turn his life back to track, runs into his childhood friend Tang, now a police officer, in a gang fight. Siaulian is wanted by the gangs since he has been made the one responsible for the fight. Siaulian is forced to form his own gang in order to protect his family and seek revenge. Eventually, he is wanted by both the gangsters and the police. As for Tang, he is struggling to protect his dearest friend as he is actually the reason why Siaulian was sentenced to prison.

Nancy, an Indian-descended mother, returns to her hometown and opens a sign language school while caring for her son Ajay, who lives with both hearing impairment and a neurological condition. Among her students are Mina, a Malay girl determined to become a Muay Thai boxer despite cultural expectations, and Sansan, a Chinese girl deeply bound to the ocean she loves. Along the vast coastline, three families and three children navigate faith, identity, and freedom, until their intertwined lives become a moving symphony of resilience and love.

80 years ago, Seediq people living in the mountains of Taiwan organized an uprising against the Japanese colonial rulers: the rebellion known as the "Wushe Incident". In this documentary, the descendants of the Wushe survivors talk about that history from their point of view, and lead us to the places where the tragedies took place.

In this documentary, director Tang records his own son's birth and growing up, his father's recovering from a stroke and a nostalgic trip home to China. (In the 1940's his father evacuated with the Nationalist troops to Taiwan after it lost the Mainland to the Communist in the war. It wasn't until 1980's were people allowed to go home to visit in Mainland China). From his search for the earliest memory of life, with a close observation and sensitivity, he exams the parallels of the different lives of a different time. In his previous work, "HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN," director Tang ends it with the ultrasound image of his unborn child, representing the beginning of a new life. With this work, "HOW HIGH IS THE MOUNTAIN," it is rather a beginning of a series of questions about life and a continuation of examination of his own life and the longing of a perfect world.

“Siaulian”, who is released from prison and trying to turn his life back to track, runs into his childhood friend Tang, now a police officer, in a gang fight. Siaulian is wanted by the gangs since he has been made the one responsible for the fight. Siaulian is forced to form his own gang in order to protect his family and seek revenge. Eventually, he is wanted by both the gangsters and the police. As for Tang, he is struggling to protect his dearest friend as he is actually the reason why Siaulian was sentenced to prison.

Nancy, an Indian-descended mother, returns to her hometown and opens a sign language school while caring for her son Ajay, who lives with both hearing impairment and a neurological condition. Among her students are Mina, a Malay girl determined to become a Muay Thai boxer despite cultural expectations, and Sansan, a Chinese girl deeply bound to the ocean she loves. Along the vast coastline, three families and three children navigate faith, identity, and freedom, until their intertwined lives become a moving symphony of resilience and love.

Nancy, an Indian-descended mother, returns to her hometown and opens a sign language school while caring for her son Ajay, who lives with both hearing impairment and a neurological condition. Among her students are Mina, a Malay girl determined to become a Muay Thai boxer despite cultural expectations, and Sansan, a Chinese girl deeply bound to the ocean she loves. Along the vast coastline, three families and three children navigate faith, identity, and freedom, until their intertwined lives become a moving symphony of resilience and love.

80 years ago, Seediq people living in the mountains of Taiwan organized an uprising against the Japanese colonial rulers: the rebellion known as the "Wushe Incident". In this documentary, the descendants of the Wushe survivors talk about that history from their point of view, and lead us to the places where the tragedies took place.

In this documentary, director Tang records his own son's birth and growing up, his father's recovering from a stroke and a nostalgic trip home to China. (In the 1940's his father evacuated with the Nationalist troops to Taiwan after it lost the Mainland to the Communist in the war. It wasn't until 1980's were people allowed to go home to visit in Mainland China). From his search for the earliest memory of life, with a close observation and sensitivity, he exams the parallels of the different lives of a different time. In his previous work, "HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN," director Tang ends it with the ultrasound image of his unborn child, representing the beginning of a new life. With this work, "HOW HIGH IS THE MOUNTAIN," it is rather a beginning of a series of questions about life and a continuation of examination of his own life and the longing of a perfect world.

Director Tang Shiang-chu first read about the Taiwanese veterans twenty years ago in the Ren-Jian Magazine, realizing that there were other people suffering the same fate as his father which a war took them away from their homes; and it wasn't after the cross-strait opened up forty years later that the remaining soldier were giving a chance to return home.

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