Movie: Secrets of 1979

Top 7 Billed Cast

Chen Yuu
陳妤

Juan

Daphne Low
Daphne Low

Lan

Sean Sun
Sean Sun

Siou

Yu-Ting Hsu
Yu-Ting Hsu

Siang

Akio Chen
Akio Chen

Juan's Father

Pai-Huei Chang
Pai-Huei Chang

Senior Juan

Weng Jiawei
Weng Jiawei

Syue

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    In the summer of 1979, during Taiwan’s martial law period, Bing-Kuan asks her college friend Shu-Lan to help out on her family’s banana plantation. As time goes by, the two girls secretly develop a romantic relationship, and decide to volunteer at the Formosa Magazine in order to promote democratic freedom of expression. Yet their youthful romance is threatened as the Kuomintang regime seeks to suppress dissident voices.

  • Release Date

    2021-09-21

  • Average

    7.8

  • Rating:

    3.9 starts
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  • Languages:

    普通话
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