What is the story of "Cape No. 7"?

The plot of "Cape No. 7" describes a large-scale concert held on the beach of Hengchun Xiadu Beach Hotel. Due to the persistence of the locals, the opening band will be performed by local musicians. , so the replacement postman Ajia (played by Fan Yichen), the millet wine salesman Marasang (played by Ma Nianxian), the motorcycle dealer Shui Frog (played by Xiao Ying), the aboriginal policeman Lao Ma (played by Min Xiong), the old postman Mao Bo (played by Mao Bo) Lin Zongren (played by Lin Zongren) and a junior high school student (played by Maizi) pieced together a "shameless" orchestra, which made the rigorous and depressed Japanese concert supervisor Miss Tomoko (played by Chie Tanaka) It was very troublesome, and the lead singer Ajia, who always refused to cooperate well with the group training, annoyed her all the time. As the performance time got closer, the conflict between the two became more and more intense. Unexpectedly, a package containing Japanese occupation documents was written on it. The expired love in the mail package at the former address of the era, "No. 7 Haijiao, Hengchun County", unexpectedly led to another cross-border love half a century later.

Appreciation

Life is only once!

Dreams don’t come only once!

As long as you are willing to look back on the missed love, there will still be a day when you can find your soul-to-heart connection...

This is a story about music, dreams, and love.

More than sixty years ago, Taiwan was liberated and the Japanese evacuated. A Japanese male teacher boarded a ship leaving Taiwan alone, and also left his lover in Taiwan: Tomoko. Unable to express his feelings for Tomoko in person, he turned his nostalgia and love into words and wrote them on pieces of letter paper.

More than sixty years later, the appearance of Taiwan has been completely changed. People in every corner are working hard to make a living. Several little people living in different corners each have their own musical dreams: Ajia, the lead singer of the frustrated band, and Ajia, who only knows how to play. Yueqin's old postman Mao Bo, water frog who works as a gangster in the car repair shop, choir piano accompanist Da Da, millet wine manufacturer Malasang, and traffic policeman Rauma and his son, these unrelated people actually want to fight for the resort center. They formed a band for the concert and performed three days later. This made Tomoko, the event publicist from Japan, very unhappy. She was extremely disappointed with the job. Tomoko, who had a bad face every day, also made Ajia, who had been in the band, even more unhappy. The whole band fell apart before they even started practicing….

The old postman Mao Bo broke his leg, so he handed over the task of delivering letters to Ajia. However, Ajia did nothing except pile the letters in his room every day. He found it in the mail pile. A parcel came from Japan, and it was written on the address of "Haijiao No. 7, Hengchun County" during the Japanese occupation. He curiously opened the parcel and found that it was written by the Japanese teacher more than 60 years ago to his lover in Taiwan. letter. A romantic story in which an old relationship gave birth to a new relationship begins...

As the date of the performance slowly approaches, these little people find that this may be the only moment in their lives when they can go on stage to realize their musical dreams. Everyone started practicing, but the problem was that the tension between Ajia and Tomoko seemed to be getting stronger, which also affected the progress of the orchestra. Finally, at a wedding banquet in the town, everyone confessed the truth after drinking. It turned out that Aka and Tomoko were both lonely strangers. After untying their knots, they discovered the feelings hidden under the anger, and developed a relationship. One night stand.

In Ajia's room, Tomoko saw the parcel from Japan and found that it was actually seven unsent love letters from sixty years ago. She asked Ajia to deliver the parcel to the owner. However, the Japanese singer is coming, the address on the mail package has long since disappeared, the second performance music has not yet been released, and the bassist Mao Bo still does not know how to play the bass.

And Tomoko, after the concert, will also return to Japan with the singer to start a new life.

Ajia finally decided to cheer up and reorganize the band, and their music dream continues. The love letter that had been dormant for sixty years was finally delivered safely to the owner of the letter, Tomoko. The relationship between Ajia and Tomoko also has a chance to start over.

People can only live once, but they have countless dreams. Only by giving it a try can you know whether the opportunity belongs to you...

Behind the scenes of the movie〖About the director〗

Bold adventurous practitioner: Wei Desheng

He was the deputy director of Edward Yang's "Mahjong" and the planner of the movie "Twin Eyes". In 1999, he stunned the Taiwanese film industry with "July Day"; in 2004, in order to break through the practical dilemma of the Taiwanese film market being limited by the financial scale and unable to shoot large-scale and large-scale productions, he raised 2.5 million yuan of his own funds to shoot "Side". "Ke. Bale" is a 5-minute test film that attempts to prove Taiwan's video creation capabilities and once again shocked the Taiwanese film industry. In 2008, he released his first feature film "Cape No. 7", which cost NT$50 million to shoot and is hailed as a film that the entire Taiwanese film community is looking forward to.

〖About the Starring〗

Played by Ajia/Fan Yichen

A guitarist and band lead singer who originally had a musical dream, but in the end his dream was shattered in Taipei, so he had to return He went to live with his stepfather in Hengchun. Faced with the boring small town life, he actually still yearned for music in his heart. However, his failure made his anger outweigh his ideals. In the end, he accepted his stepfather's arrangement to take over the postman job in the town. However, he failed No letter was sent.

About Fan Yichen

In 2002, he released his first album "Fan Yichen" with the same name, and became famous after singing the Chinese theme song "I Believe" of "My Sassy Girl". Album sales reached 150,000 copies. Later, the album "Faith in Love" was released in 2003, which also reached 100,000 album sales. The albums "Love Program" and "Unspoken Tenderness" released in the future have achieved good results. "Cape No. 7" is Fan Yichen's first starring movie. He is good at electric guitar and bass, combined with his acting skills, he brings the role of Ajia to the fullest.

The Japanese teacher from sixty years ago/played by the famous Japanese singer Kousuke Naka

The Japanese male teacher who evacuated Taiwan with the Japanese army sixty years ago will have no time to tell his lover. Love and longing turned into seven touching love letters, but it took sixty years for the love letters to be sent.

The well-known Japanese singer Kousuke Naka plays two roles this time. In addition to playing the role of the infatuated male teacher, he also plays his own role of "Kousuke Naka" in front of the big screen. The first time he made the leap to the big screen was in a high-budget Taiwanese film, which was also a very rare experience for Kousuke Naka himself.

About Kousuke Naka

Motochitose, a fellow singer from the island country, is hailed by the Japanese media as "the gentlest singer on earth." In 2005, Kousuke Naka won the 5th place on the non-mainstream charts and is currently a rising star promoted by Sony Records in Japan. The Japanese album was released in April 2007, and its high level of attention is evident.

Modern Tomoko (concert public relations)/played by Chie Tanaka

A washed-up model who was eventually reduced to an assistant who manages models, and was left by the company in Taiwan to deal with it. The flattering resort concert was a psychological shock. Faced with a band that had been cobbled together from all directions, and being in a foreign country due to a language barrier, the dissatisfaction and loneliness were about to explode...

About Chie Tanaka

Born in Tokyo, Japan, her film credits include "Ping Pong" (starring Kubotsuka Yosuke), "Initial D" and "Spring Snow" (Tsumabuki Satoshi) starring). When she participated in the performance of "Initial D", Chie could not speak a word of Chinese, but she strongly felt the importance of learning Chinese for an actor, so she bravely came to Taiwan to learn Chinese alone. It has been eight months since I came to Taiwan, and my Chinese has improved rapidly. After filming the movie "Cape No. 7", the agency has planned for Chie to develop in Beijing. It is believed that with her language skills, she will become a dazzling new star in Asia.

Tomoko Sixty Years Ago/played by Liang Wenyin

Sixty years ago, Taiwan was restored and the Japanese colonial army withdrew. Tomoko was searching for the Japanese teacher she loved at the port, but he was nowhere to be seen. The figure originally planned to cherish this feeling for the rest of his life, but he didn't expect that sixty years later, an unrelated young man would save his love...

About Liang Wenyin

Participated in the PK competition in China Television Company's "Super Avenue of Stars (First Edition)" and achieved outstanding results, and then signed up for "Super Avenue of Stars (Second Edition)" 》, the player who scored the most high scores of 20 points or more in this competition. He lost the championship game by a slight margin and finished second, which caused a public uproar at the time and sparked a scoring dispute. In the end, the production unit stated that it would improve the program's competition system.

〖About the address of Cape No. 7〗

It is a place in Suao, Yilan, Taiwan. There is such a story that happened in Suao: "The famous man from the Meiji Restoration era in Japan Xixiang Takasheng lived in Suao, Yilan for half a year when he was young, and had a foreign love affair with a Taiwanese aboriginal woman. Xixiang Takasheng later left Taiwan in the 11th year of Meiji. One day in 1878), Saigo Takamori's son Saigo Kikujiro was sorting out his father's belongings and found a letter in a wooden box that his father had written at the end of 1851 but had never sent. The address of this letter was written in Chinese characters. Written by: Miss Luo Zhu, No. 7, Nanfangao Cape, Su'ao Village, Kavalan Hall, Taiwan. After reading the letter, Saigo Kikujiro finally understood why his name was "Jiro". In Taiwan. Saigo Kikujiro made a promise that one day, he would come to Taiwan and hand this letter into the hands of Miss Luo Ju. "

〖About the film"

Because the play not only contains historical scenes of the Japanese evacuating Taiwan after their defeat in 1945, but also key spectacular scenes such as a concert of thousands of people, which exceeds the shooting scale of ordinary Taiwanese movies. In addition to receiving a 5 million tutoring grant from the Information Bureau , Wei Desheng fearlessly applied for a loan of 20 million from the bank through the Information Bureau, hoping to finally use nearly 40 million in funding to prove to Taiwanese audiences and the world's film industry that Taiwan can also produce good-looking movies that combine artistic quality and entertainment. For these scenes that "make the audience stop breathing", the preparation process went through many twists and turns, resulting in repeated delays in the shooting schedule. Fortunately, with the persistence of producers Huang Zhiming and Lin Tiangui, Wei Desheng and Wei Desheng said, "You must do something in your life." Only with the strong will of "something that can be talked about" can the film start shooting smoothly in 930. Huang Zhiming, who has participated in films such as "Twin Eyes", "Trees" and "The Untold Secret", said: "The significance and value of starting the filming of "Cape No. 7" at this stage is that Xiao Wei is the most important actor in Taiwan's film industry at this stage. "One of the few directors who understands the language of film"

〖About the filmmakers〗

In order to play the role of musicians in the film, several musicians, even before the filming started, They gathered in the practice room and diligently played the instruments sponsored by the Gongxue Society, hoping to develop a tacit understanding of performance and become the super band that transformed from "a mess" into a "dream group" in the play. It is Fan Yichen's first film appearance. Since most of the scenes in the play are set in the hot southern Taiwan, there will be a lot of "aerial scenes" to be performed. Under the director's request, Fan Yichen is particularly diligent in practicing his body lines. He will make the audience's eyes brighten and interact with the heroine. Chie Tanaka will also perform well in the key sex scene. When asked about the scale of the movie "Cape No. 7", director Wei Desheng also joked and asked everyone to refer to "Lust, Caution", which made Cai Cai and Fan Yichen go to Yangmingshan and Bali several times. Chie Tanaka, who was dating and cultivating a relationship, blushed with embarrassment.