INTERVIEW/Actors take on dual identities in gripping new film on White Terror era
11/19/2024 04:01 PM
Multiple Golden Horse Award-winning director Chung Mong-hong (鍾孟宏) is back with his seventh feature film "The Embers" (餘燼), which explores the themes of justice and revenge as a victim and a perpetrator in a Chinese espionage case from Taiwan's authoritarian past trade places 50 years later.
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