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Secrets of 1979 (2021)

Directed by Zero Chou

Overview

In the summer of 1979, during Taiwan’s martial law period, Bing-Kuan asks her college friend Shu-Lan to help out on her family’s banana plantation. As time goes by, the two girls secretly develop a romantic relationship, and decide to volunteer at the Formosa Magazine in order to promote democratic freedom of expression. Yet their youthful romance is threatened as the Kuomintang regime seeks to suppress dissident voices.

Length 86 minutes

Actors

Chen Yu | Daphne Low | Sean Sun | Yu-Ting Hsu | Akio Chen | Bai-Hui Chang | Weng Jiawei