13th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 27 - Jul 14, 2014

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North American Premiere

Kano

KANO

The star of Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale and already an award-winning television director, Umin Boya, makes his feature-film directorial debut with the true story of Kagi Agriculture and Forestry Public School's baseball team. Known as the pioneers of Taiwanese baseball in the 1930s, this ragtag group of young players—made up of both Japanese and Taiwanese students—went from holding a losing record to playing in the finals of Japan's high-school baseball tournament in one year under the leadership of their new Japanese coach (Nagase Masatoshi). A love letter to the sport of baseball and imbued with the never-give-up spirit, this three-hour crowd-pleasing sports epic is a triumph of Taiwan cinema and one of the highest-grossing local films of all time.

Director: Umin Boya
Cast: Ono Machiko, Chou Jun-hou, Chen Yung-xin, Wei Chi-an, Tsai Yu-fan, Jeng Bing-hong, Noel Iida, Yamamuro Kotaro, Okura Yuma, Chen Chin-hung, Sie Jyun-jie, Sie Jyun-cheng, Zhong Yan-cheng, Chang Hung-yi, Igawa Togo, Sakai Maki, Osawa Takao, Ken Aoki, Tsao Yu-ning, Nagase Masatoshi
Languages: Japanese, Taiwanese, Hakka, and Taiwan Aboriginal with English subtitles
2014; 185 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Sunday June 29, 5:35pm
Film Society of Lincoln Center

Q&A with Umin Boya.

Umin Boya
馬志翔

Umin Boya (also known by his Chinese name Ma Chih-hsiang) is half-aborigine on his father's side. He first came to prominence in Wang Shau-di's TV series Big Hospital, Little Doctor (2000) and went on to star in the drama series Crystal Boys (2003) and Banquet (2004), picking up Golden Bell Award nominations along the way. He has written and directed three award-winning short films, and has been seen in various Taiwanese feature films such as Sylvia Chang's 20 30 40 (2004), Yang Ya-che's Orz Boyz (2008) and Wei Te-sheng's Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011). Kano is his directorial debut