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Island in Between( 2023)

TV-MADocumentary
64%
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A personal, poetic look at the uneasy peace on the frontline between Taiwan and China.

Overview

The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese Civil War. It also marks the frontline for Taiwan in its escalating tension with China.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Sen-Po Tung

      Self

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      Ja-Shin Wu

      Self

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      Ya-Ping Hu

      Self

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      Qiao-Ling Lin

      Self

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      Ying-Lung Chiang

      Self

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      Yue-Ling Lai

      Self

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      Wun-Siang Cheng

      Self

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      Li-Hung Lin

      Self

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      Alice Hérait

      Self

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      Walid Berrazeg

      Self

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    Review 1Discussion

    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Fri Mar 22 2024
    A man who has lived the last thirty years of his life in the USA returns to his ancestral home in Taiwan just as lockdown impacts and then as relations between the nation and China continue to strain. This is a pretty standard observational documentary - but it does offer quite an interesting degree of reverse psychology. It's the Taiwanese who are bombarding their near neighbour with messages about truth, freedom and democracy - and all from their tiny outpost of the Kinmen Islands, a very short ferry ride from the mainland. This really only serves as a cursory introduction to the important is...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • taiwan