Cape no. 7

Based on the skimming of the synopsis,I had thought of the movie had some resemblance of a movie which is entitled " P.S. I loved you".Hmm..the movie is about the villagers of different ages came to form a band,and managed by a Japanese lady (Tomoko).I persoanlly don't like to watch taiwanese movie due to the slow pacement.However,as this movie had some Japanese elements in,it had ineveitably rising up my curiousity level to watch it. Moreover,Cape no.7 had nominations in this year's Golden Horse awards.

I'm very impressed with the young actress - a ten year old keyboardist in Dada (Joanne) who has been kicked out from providing her service in church because of her failure to conform to playing for a (boring) congregation.She looks so cute!Well,the forbidden love between the Japanese man and Taiwanese woman,the 7 letters which were wrote for confession,the courage to deliver them...Romantic!^^ However,the contents of the 7 letters failed to let me feel touched eventhough it got framed from within very luscious cinematography.

The plot (copied from wikipedia)-


In the 1940s near the end of the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, an unnamed teacher (Kousuke Atari) dispatched to the southernmost town of Hengchun falls in love with a local girl with the Japanese name Kojima Tomoko (Rachel Liang). After the Surrender of Japan, the teacher is forced to return home as the Chinese occupation of Taiwan resumed. On his trip home, he pens seven love letters to express his regret for leaving Kojima Tomoko, who originally planned to elope with him in Japan.

More than 60 years after the teacher left Kojima Tomoko, Aga (Van Fan) is introduced as a struggling young Hengchun-native rock band singer who could not find success in Taipei. After returning to his hometown, Aga's step father (Ju-Lung Ma), the Town Council Representative, arranged a position for him as a postman, replacing the aging Old Mao (Johnny C.J. Lin), on leave after a motorcycle accident broke his leg. One day, Aga comes across an undeliverable piece of mail that was supposed to be returned to the sender; the daughter of the now deceased Japanese teacher has decided to mail the unsent love letters to Taiwan after discovering them. Aga unlawfully keeps and opens the package to discover its contents, but the old Japanese-style address Cape No. 7, Hengchun County, Takao Prefecture can no longer be found.

Meantime a local resort hotel inside Kenting National Park is organizing a beach concert featuring Japanese pop singer Kousuke Atari, but Aga's step father makes use of his official position to insist that the opening band be composed of locals. Tomoko (Chie Tanaka), an over-the-hill Mandarin-speaking Japanese fashion model dispatched to Hengchun, is assigned the difficult task of managing this hastily assembled band, led by Aga along with six other locals of rather particular backgrounds. After a frustrating trial period, Aga and Tomoko unexpectedly begin a relationship. With some assistance from hotel maid Mingchu (Shino Lin), who is revealed to be Kojima Tomoko's granddaughter, Tomoko helps Aga find the rightful recipient of the seven love letters. Tomoko then tells Aga that she plans on returning to Japan after the concert because of a job offering. After returning the seven love letters, a heartbroken but determined Aga returns to the beach resort and performs a highly successful concert with his local band alongside Kousuke Atari, during which Tomoko accepts his love.



我想写一封思念，
贴上我温柔，
写上我深情，
在用牵挂封口，
乘着风的翅膀，
在某个黄昏映染天际的时候，
轻轻落在你的视线。