“Where there is a phony peace, there is a phony war.”
When a military contingent of "mythic" Americans arrive for war games in a little farming village in South Taiwan in the late 1960s, a veritable flood of hilarious cultural and linguistic misunderstandings is loosed on both sides.
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Cast
13 people
Lin Cheng-sheng
Also in
Tropical Fish
Yours and Mine
Nana Chiang
Also in
Make Bitter Qianlong
少年史艳文
Mark Lee Ping-Bing
Wu Nien-jen
Known for
Yi Yi
Taipei Story
Cheng-sheng Lin
Lin Wen-Sheng(segment "Brain")
Ken Yang
Known for
High Risk
Yung-Teh Hsu
Interpreter
Bin-Hui Lee
Also in
The Grass Beneath the Windmills
Raydio
Ming-Hua Pai
Greg Silas
American Soldier
Aryeh Sternberg
American Soldier
Chung-Hsien Yang
Wu Nien-jen Director · Mark Lee Ping-Bing Cinematographer
First release July 20, 1996 · Produced in Taiwan · Original title 太平天國
Production
Taiwan
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Original title
太平天國
Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese
Release dates
Taiwan · July 20, 1996
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Canada
September 13, 1996 · Toronto International Film Festival
Czechia
July 1, 1997 · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Singapore
April 16, 1997 · Singapore International Film Festival
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