Heartbreak Island (1995)
2h
Running Time
March 23, 1995Release Date
Plot.
In Taiwan, a young woman, Lin-Lang, is released from prison after serving ten years for terrorist activity. She had turned to bomb making in grief after her mentor and lover, An Rong, who was also her university professor, was arrested for political activity and, she presumed, executed. In prison, she learns Rong is alive, and she maintains her spirits and sanity for the years in her cell by holding imaginary conversations with him. When she is released, she discovers he is married, has a child, and lives conventionally. She finds him; he's not happy to see her. How she reacts to losing the center of her life becomes the subject of the film.
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Cast & Crew.

Vicky Wei
Chen Lin-Lang

Jieh-Wen King
Wang Rong

Tsai Chen-Nan
Jin Guang

Ching-Ju Chang
An-An Wang's Wife

Cheung Jing-Yue
An-An, Wang's Wife

Wen Ying
Wang's Mother

Chyi Chin

Cindy Mong

Yang Wei-han
Director of Photography

Cheng Kuo
Writer

Chiang Shui-Chung
Writer

Chen Po-Wen
Editor

Hsu Hsiao-Ming
Director

Wong Sau
Production Manager

Hou Hsiao-hsien
Executive Producer
Details.
Wiki.
Heartbreak Island is a 1995 Taiwanese drama film directed by Hsu Hsiao-ming. The film follows a recently released woman prisoner as she visits her ex who was arrested in the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident but released before her. The film makes extensive use of flashbacks to illustrate the woman's thoughts.
Writing for The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote: "The mood of Heartbreak Island is so glumly monochromatic that the characters remain at a chilly distance, and the movie remains locked in its own sealed-off sense of despair."
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