KAO Ta-Hao, a fugitive going into hiding, meets teenage runaway Hsiao-Shan at a train station. To cover for each other, they disguise themselves as a father and daughter and head up to Mt. Ali. Scholar HO Chih-Ping and wife Chun-Li, after working in Mt. Ali Weather Station for years, are bored by th...(Read more)
KAO Ta-Hao, a fugitive going into hiding, meets teenage runaway Hsiao-Shan at a train station. To cover for each other, they disguise themselves as a father and daughter and head up to Mt. Ali. Scholar HO Chih-Ping and wife Chun-Li, after working in Mt. Ali Weather Station for years, are bored by the monotony of their life. The arrival of Ta-Hao and Hsiao-Shan sets something off in Chun-Li. Hsiao-Shan treats Chun-Li like a mother, and Chun-Li grows fond of Ta-Hao. After Ta-Hao meets an innocent girl, Ah-Hung, he begins to re-evaluate his life. A storm inside each of them brews on the mountain.
Typhoon (1962) is adapted from director PAN Lei’s novella. He sees the weather station cabin as a confined space where people are both close and alienated; everyone has something on their mind as desires pump through their veins. The extraordinary mise en scène successfully brings a literariness into moving images. With its aesthetic achievement highly praised by Run Run SHAW, the modernistic Typhoon became a turning point for PAN that opened up opportunities for him within the SHAW Brothers Studio.
Available Formats: DVD, Blu-ray and DCP
Chinese title: | 颱風 |
Year: | 1962 |
Director: | PAN Lei |
Duration: | 113min |
Length: | Feature |
Category: | Fiction |
Genre: | Drama |
Theme: | Gender、Indigenous Peoples、Literature、2020 Program: Live on the Scene: Taiwan’s Martial Law History |
Color: | B & W |
Format: | DVD |
Sound: | Mono |
Language: | Mandarin |
Subtitle: | Chinese, English |
Producer: | Wang Shao Qing |
Actors: | Mu Hong 、 Tang Jing |
Screenplay: | Pan Lei |
Camera: |
Hong Qing Yun |
Editor: | Chen Hong Min |
Music: | Yang Ping Chung |
Excluded for public screenings: | Licensed to all regions except: Taiwan, China (not including Hong Kong and Macau) |
Royalty period: | June 1, 2019 - May 31, 2024 |
Licensing contact: | The film is for non-profit screening only. |
Festival list: | 2019 Taipei Film Festival - Special Screening |