1895 (film)

1895 or Blue Brave: The Legend of Formosa 1895 (Chinese: 1895乙未) is a Taiwanese Hakka film based on the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan in 1895, with emphasis on the Hakka fighters and their families in the conflict. The film has a limited budget of NT$60,000,000 (approximately US$2,000,000), with roughly half of it provided by the Council for Hakka Affairs of the Executive Yuan.[1] The film was released on November 7, 2008, and was the highest-grossing Taiwanese film in that year.

1895
Taiwan Poster
Directed byHung Chih-yu
Starring
Music by
Distributed by20th Century Fox Taiwan
Release date
  • November 7, 2008 (2008-11-07)
Running time
110 minutues
CountryTaiwan
Language
Budget$2 million

Plot

Reception

The film won the Best Drama Series award in the Asian Television Awards in 2009. A review published in the Taipei Times stated that the film "educational at best" and geared toward students and teachers of history.[2]

References

  1. 「1895乙未」,陳坤厚執導,楊謹華、李佳穎、溫昇豪主演
  2. Ho, Yi (7 November 2008). "[FILM] '1895' not one for the history books" (PDF). Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 7 November 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
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