Du Yan

The Dawu Mountain Range is shrouded in mist, yet Baru, a 28-year-old Indigenous man, weaves through the lush forest like it’s his own backyard. On an illicit hunt to prove himself worthy of his pregnant girlfriend, the army deserter is pursued by policeman Sam and poacher Sakinu. As Baru ventures deeper into Paiwan ancestral territory, memories of hunting with his late father reconnect him with Indigenous culture and Nature’s spirits. Yet economic realities drive him to violate a historical taboo, leading to a fateful encounter with the mythical Black Bear, revered by his tribe. Set amid the 1990s Indigenous rights movement in Taiwan, The Last Hunter redefines heroism through a poetic journey into Indigenous spirituality.

Chi-yi is a veteran cop, who values his own safety more than anything else and is therefore infamous for his cowardice and poor efficiency at work. Yi-ping, on the other hand, has just graduated from the police academy and is more than ready to prove herself regardless of any risks. Daughter of the head of the National Policy Agency, Yi-ping is secretly kept away from danger by being appointed to team up with Chi-yi. Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy’s accidental death, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly dig up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.