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Wan Jen

-  Farewell to the Channel / The Farewell Coast

1987

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Sandwich Man (兒子的大玩偶). dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien (侯孝賢), Wan Jen (萬仁), Tseng Chuang Hsiang. 1983. 

The Sandwich Man is a 1983 Taiwanese New Wave film jointly directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wan Jen and Tseng Chuang-Hsiang. The script is based on Huang Chunming’s story, His Son’s Big Doll. The film is vividly composed of three separate stories set in Taiwan’s developing economy during the cold war period. The Sandwich Man is seen as a hallmark of Taiwanese New Cinema.

The title of the film is also the first vignette, directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Sentimental and bittersweet, it is about a man who becomes depressed with life while working as a sandwich board clown to support his wife and baby son.

Vicki’s Hat, directed by Wan Jen, is a dark, subtle tale of an encounter between a pair of ambitious, yet unlucky salesmen forced to sell defective pressure cookers, and a little girl always wearing a hat.

The Taste of Apples, directed by Tseng Chuang-Hsiang, concerns an accident involving a poor labourer being struck by a high-ranking American colonel’s car and being left unable to provide for his family.

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The Sandwich Man (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wan Jen, and Tseng Chuang-hsiang, 1983)

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Wan Jen and his shooting crew on the film set of Farewell to the Channel / The Farewell Coast (1987)

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Wan Jen

- The Taste of Apple

1983

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The Sandwich Man (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wan Jen, and Tseng Chuang-hsiang, 1983)

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“蘋果的滋味” (Wan Jen)

兒子的大玩偶 (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wan Jen & Zhuang Xiang Zeng, 1983)

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Wan Jen 萬仁, The Taste of Apple (segment in The Sandwich Man), 1983.