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Language. Taiwanese. Buddha Bless America (Chinese: 太平天國; Pinyin: Tàipíng Tiānguó) is a 1996 Taiwanese feature film directed by Wu Nien-jen, a scriptwriter turned director. It is a sarcastic comedy set in the early 1960s about a Sino-American joint military exercise in a small village in southern Taiwan. The encounter between the ...
BUDDHA BLESS AMERICA is an enchanting Tiawanese comedy set in 1961. It tells the story of a small village of farmers who are temporarily relocated while the U.S. military plays war games in their fields. They're not too happy about, and do what they can to create trouble for the unwelcome guests.
- Wu Nien-Jen
When a military contingent of "mythic" Americans arrive for war games in a little farming village in South Taiwan in the late 1960s, a veritable flood of hilarious cultural and linguistic misunderstandings is loosed on both sides.
8.0. /10. 9 Ratings. A quiet Taiwanese fishing village is interrupted one day by American tanks rumbling in for joint training exercises with the Taiwanese military. The village’s inhabitants are at first unnerved, then curious, and then quickly become jaundiced as they steal whatever they can from the invaders.
Brief Synopsis. Set in a Taiwanese coastal agricultural village during the Vietnamese war, a satirical story which centers on national cultures' powerlessness and the force of Americanization resulting from a joint military U.S.-Taiwanese military manuever.
- Wu Nien-Jen
- Lin Cheng-Sheng
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Jul 20, 1996 · 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 ...
