Buddha Bless America
- Original title
- Tai ping tian guoaka
- AKA
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- Buddha Bless America
- Year
- 1996
- Running time
- 118 min.
- Country
- Taiwan
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Lin Cheng-sheng
- Elsie Yeh
- Yung-Teh Hsu
- Wu Nien-jen
- Ming Hwa Bai
- Greg Silas
- Yang Chung-Hsien
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy
- Synopsis
- In a sleepy part of rural Taiwan in the late 1960s, the life of a village is shattered when Uncle Sam arrives in tanks. The Yanks are there to take part in joint military exercises with Taiwanese troops, but the villagers take their compensation by direct methods - they steal anything that can be moved. One of the film's great strengths is the way that writer Wu Nien-jen, in only his second feature as director, shades the comic tone. The film's main character, Brain (Lin Cheng-sheng, himself a director), condemns the rampant theft but turns against the Americans when they take him for a beggar. He steals two huge boxes, not knowing what they contain.
- Awards
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1996: Venice Film Festival: Nominated for Golden Lion
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