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The Man Who Couldn't Leave
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The Man Who Couldn't Leave

2022
Directed bySinging Chen
0h 35m

Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of imprisonment and persecution happened in the 1950s in Taiwan. Among fellow inmates, frozen in time, he recounts his own experiences and those of his friend, A-Ching, who never made it out. Experience the time and place, and the waiting, in hope, for a chance to keep the stories alive.

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Lin JuKerr Hsu
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Huang Pei-jia
Chen Chia-kuei
Pan Li-li
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
NR

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