Van Pao-te

This is a typical old fashioned Taiwanese movie, telling a story about some ordinary Taiwanese people and families, the head of a hardware and plumbing repair store's owner suffering incurable late pancreatic cancer. Instead of trying to get some medical treatment, he decided to go to Japan to find out the whereabouts of his father who dumped him long time ago.

This is a no big deal story narrated in a very very slow paced speed, trying very hard to be more artful in camera arrangement, but the storyline itself was somewhat unbearably boring due to the director too obsessed in shooting a movie in the traditional way.

The topic of such story also felt quite cliche'd and unimportant. 99.9% of the dialog was spoken in southern Fu-Kien province dialect which is the main language spoken by most of the Taiwanese people.

I didn't feel any compassion or empathy when watched this no-big deal movie, although it was seriously made. Actors in this movie all performed naturally but failed to connect a viewer like me. Just a barely okay movie, quite forgetful.