Top Cast
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Yang Kuei-mei
Wide Mouth Wife
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Ko Chun-Hsiung
Landlord
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Mei Zhao-Lin
Chen Shuixian
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Wen Ying
Ah Fa's Wife
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Fanny Chang Chun-Fang
Yueniang
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Po-Chou Chang
Chen Fa
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Cho Sheng-Li
Chen Kuozui
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Wu Ping-nan
Japanese Policeman
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Ying Ying
Mother
Overview
In 1940s Taiwan, during the last days of Japanese rule, an impoverished farming village is less concerned with colonial politics than with feeding their families. One day, an American bomb falls onto a field, where it lies unexploded.
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