Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 2008


1895 (2008 film)

Buy 1895 (2008 film) now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'Blue Brave: The Legend of Formosa 1895', known simply as '1895' , is a Taiwanese Hakka film based on the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan in 1895, with emphasis on the Hakka fighters and their families in the conflict. The film has a limited budget of NT$60 million with roughly half of it provided by the Council for Hakka Affairs of the Executive Yuan.[http://www.douban.com/group/topic/2441760/ 1895] The film was released on November 7, 2008, and was the highest-grossing Taiwanese film in that year.

Plot



Reception



The film won the Best Drama Series award in the Asian Television Awards in 2009. A review published in the 'Taipei Times' stated that the film "educational at best" and geared toward students and teachers of history.

References




Buy 1895 (2008 film) now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 2008



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1110671827.