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Set in Japan: On a bitter cold day with heavy snow, YANG, from Taiwan, goes to a newspaper office to apply for a paperboy job. The boss states that he must pay 10 yen deposit to start working immediately. YANG only has 6 yen so the boss says he will make an exception because he pities him. However, ...(Read more)
Set in Japan: On a bitter cold day with heavy snow, YANG, from Taiwan, goes to a newspaper office to apply for a paperboy job. The boss states that he must pay 10 yen deposit to start working immediately. YANG only has 6 yen so the boss says he will make an exception because he pities him. However, after 20 days the owner claims bad sales, and fires YANG for not working hard enough. Only then does YANG realize that the deposit was nonrefundable, nor can he be paid because he has worked for less than a month.
CHENG attempts to convey prejudice by using refreshing images to package the experience of suffering. The story parallels that of YANG’s own father who was severely beaten by the Japanese police because of his reluctance to sell his farmland cheaply. CHENG deliberately blurs YANG’s subjective memories, perhaps to express the same kind of stagnancy between the past and the present.
Author：YANG Kui
DVD source：Taiwan Cinema Toolkit, Ministry of Culture, R.O.C.
| Chinese title： | 送報伕 |
| Year： | 2015 |
| Director： | CHENG Wen-Tang |
| Duration： | 25min |
| Length： | Short |
| Category： | Fiction |
| Genre： | Drama |
| Theme： | Cultural Conflict、Literature |
| Color： | Color |
| Format： | DVD |
| Sound： | Stereo |
| Language： | Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese |
| Subtitle： | Chinese, English |
| Producer： | WANG Shaudi |
| Actors： | GONG Yu-an, Yukiya OHNISHI, Naoki IDE |
| Screenplay： | CHENG Wen-tang |
Camera： |
CAI Wei-long |
| Editor： | LIN Wei-sheng |
| Music： | Enno CHENG |
| Excluded for public screenings： | Licensed to all regions except: Taiwan, China (not including Hong Kong, Macau) |
| Royalty period： | Unlimited |
| Licensing contact： | The film is for non-profit screening only. |
| Festival list： | 2015 Golden Harvest Awards Film Festival |
