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The Boar King

2014｜Taiwan｜Fiction｜Color｜102 min｜Mandarin

Cho loses her husband, Ying, during a massive typhoon that left their village in ruins. The grief-stricken widow is also faced with the prospect of losing the family business, as the Boar Hot Spring – the source of water for the hotel spas in the village – has been buried by a landslide. As her fellow villagers desperately try to sell off their land and move out, they receive invitation cards from the deceased Ying. Is Ying really dead? What secrets is he hiding? Can they find another path and re-establish links with the buried hot spring, the lifeblood of the village? Ying's daughter, Fen, returns to the mountain village for the funeral and encounters a young man, Garmin, on the way. A love story slowly unfolds as he helps her recover from her grief. Together, Cho and Fen try to find the answer to Ying's secrets through the videotapes that he had left behind. The journey leads them to a new path that helps them bid goodbye to the past and find  a new direction in life.

■Filmmaker

Chen-ti KUO

Chen-ti KUO is an award-winning director specializing in documentaries and feature 
films. She started directing theatrical productions during college at National Taiwan 
University, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Her interest 
in the arts led her to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at Temple University in the US, 
honing her skills in writing and directing for radio, television and film. 

As a writer, Kuo was thrice the recipient of the government-funded Excellent Screenplay Awards for her works：Bicycle Diary (1997), Red Snow (2002) and Romance Century (2007). Kuo’s background in theatre has imbued her documentaries with a sense of drama, as many critics have noted. Libangbang－Ching Wen is not Home was nominated for best short film at several international festivals, including the New York Expo of Short Film and Video in 2002. 

Her feature-length documentary, Viva Tonal – the Dance Age, won the Best Documentary award at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in 2003. In the same way, her feature films reflect the social consciousness that pervades her documentaries. Her first feature film, Step by Step was released in March 2009. Her second and latest feature is The Boar King. She is currently working on the postproduction of her documentary Trapped by the Sea, Lost in Time.

■Product Information

Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association
Content: The Boar King
Subtitles: Chinese/English
Format: DVD