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The Dull Ice Flower
魯冰花
Directed byYang Li Kuo
Written byWu Nien-jen
StarringHuang Kun Hsuan
Lee Shu Chen
Chen Sung-young
Chen Wei sin
Yu Han
Lee Yi Hsiung
CinematographyMark Lee Ping Bin
Edited byHuang Cheng Hsiang
Music byTseng Shu-chin
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time93 minutes
CountryTaiwan
LanguagesMandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien

The Dull Ice Flower (Chinese: 魯冰花, literally translated as lupine flower) is a 1989 Taiwanese film based on the novel of the same title by Chung Chao-cheng. Dealing with education and other social issues in rural Taiwan in the deprived 1950s and early 1960s, the story was adapted into a screenplay by Wu Nien-jen.

Synopsis

Ku A-ming (古阿明) is a fourth grader at Chungshan Elementary School in Shuiyu Township. Despite being not very good in most subjects at school, he is very talented in art and has a great imagination, though most teachers cannot understand what he's expressing in his artwork. During a morning assembly, a new art teacher named Mr. Kuo asks if anyone is interested in joining the after school art club. Ku A-ming was the first one to volunteer. During an art competition, the school teachers voted to decide a winner to represent the school in a nationwide competition; most voted the mayor's son for their own interests. Since A-ming lost, Mr. Kuo protested by quitting his job at the school. Before he leaves, he asked A-ming to give him one of his drawings. Sadly, after Mr. Kuo has left, A-ming dies of liver illness. Mr. Kuo sends A-ming's drawing to a worldwide children's art competition, with A-ming's winning as the champion. The teachers begin to regret for neglecting A-ming's great artistic talent. During A-ming's funeral, A-ming's father burned his son's drawings to commemorate A-ming's passing.

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Awards

At the 26th annual Golden Horse Film Festival, The Dull Ice Flower was nominated for 6 awards, including Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Leading Actor, and Best Original Film Score. It won 2 awards, namely Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Film Song. The movie was chosen as “My most favourite Taiwan movie” in a poll organised by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute in 2023.

See also

References

  1. Berry, Michael (2008). A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film. Columbia University Press. p. 70. ISBN 9780231141628.
  2. "1989 Nominees and Winners". Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  3. "票選最愛國片!最催淚經典《魯冰花》奪冠 不因時代被淡忘". Retrieved 14 Sep 2023.

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