Strawman (1987)
January 2, 1987Release Date
Strawman (1987)
January 2, 1987Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Yang Kuei-mei
Wide Mouth Wife

Ko Chun-Hsiung
Landlord

Mei Zhao-Lin
Chen Shuixian

Wen Ying
Ah Fa's Wife

Fanny Chang Chun-Fang
Yueniang

Po-Chou Chang
Chen Fa

Cho Sheng-Li
Chen Kuozui

Wu Ping-nan
Japanese Policeman

Ying Ying
Mother

Cheng Tung-Chuen
Landlord's Son

Li Kun
Director of Japan Branch

方龍
Chief of Village

Wang Tung
Director

Mark Lee Ping-Bing
Director of Photography

SHIU Guo-liang
Producer

Siu-Di Wang
Screenplay
Media.


Details.
Release DateJanuary 2, 1987
Original Name稻草人
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Genres
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Wiki.
Directed by Wang Toon (王童; aka Wang Tong), Strawman is a Taiwanese film released in 1987. It is the first feature of Wang's “Taiwan Trilogy,'' which also includes Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂; 1989) and Hill of No Return (無言的山丘; 1992). The film adopts a comic tone to depict the hardships of life as colonizers in rural Taiwan at the height of WWII. Though not an adaptation from nativist novel like Wang's acclaimed A Flower in The Raining Night (看海的日子; 1983), which is based on the namesake novel by Huang Chun Ming (黃春明), Strawman’s poor farmer family at Yilan’s Shuanglian Pi and the ridiculous journey to deliver an unexploded bomb are depicted very much in the style of Huang's nativist literature. The film won the Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay in The 24th Golden Horse Awards.
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