Cape No. 7 (Hai Jiao Qi Hao)
Directed by Te-Sheng Wei
Taiwan, 2008, 129 minutes, cert PG
Saturday 21 February at Asia House
Film showing 2.30pm followed by Q&A
with Te-Sheng Wei and reception.
First time director Te-Sheng Wei’s Cape No. 7 is Taiwan’s most successful film of all time and the
official Taiwanese entry for the 2009 Oscars.
After ten years of striving to become a singer in a band in Taipei, Aga returns home to the small southern coastal town of Hengchun, his dream unfulfilled. Tomoko is a Japanese model who is asked to put together a local warm-up band for a forthcoming beach concert by a Japanese superstar singer. Recruiting the band members proves to be impossibly difficult and so – together with five other ordinary Hengchun residents with
no hopes of fame – Aga and Tomoko form an extraordinary band.
Meanwhile, a cache of undelivered love letters dating from the Japanese occupation of Taiwan is discovered, sent from a Japanese teacher to the Taiwanese woman he leaves behind when he is extradited from the island in 1945. Can these seven letters act as a catalyst for another inter-cultural love affair seventy years later?
Reception sponsored by the Taipei Representative Office in the UK.
Asia House Friends & Concs £5
Others £8
For booking:
Tel: 020 7307 5454
Email: enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk
Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP
