The Strait Story (2005)

Name: The Strait Story
Director: Huang Yu-Shan
Genre: Romance, History
Released: 2005-10-21
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Cast: Freddy Lim, Janine Chang, Huai-yu Xu, Jag Huang, Bing-Chen Chen

Japanese, Mandarin 1h 46m

Romance History

Directed by Huang Yu-Shan Starring Freddy Lim, Janine Chang

Release Date 21 Oct 2005

About The Strait Story Movie

Released in 2005, The Strait Story is a Romance, History Movie in Japanese, Mandarin. Direction is by Huang Yu-Shan. Key performances come from Freddy Lim, Janine Chang, Huai-yu Xu. 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 ...