TAIWAN | HD | 23 MIN | COLOR
THE BLACK KITE
" It was a time whatever you do or say makes no difference.
You have no future, that's the heartbreaking truth."
——— Tzu Yi Mo
Best Leading Actor
Golden Horse Awards
" A thousand movies couldn't tell all the stories that happened in White Terror. This one touches me."
——— Jin Ji Lee
Victim of White Terror
" Political victims can transfer their trauma to their families, the victims' wives, children, but their misfortune was always neglected in the narration of our history. Therefore I decide that I would shot The Black Kite from the point of view of a 7-year-old girl."
——— Director I-Hui Lee
VERSE - "The Black Kite" Interview
The Black Kite - Trailer
Behind The Scenes of "The Black Kite" - Director
This period is known as the White Terror, where anyone suspected go being a Communist agent was hunted down. Through a 7-year-old girl’s point of view, The Black Kite brings us back to the innocent, yet high-handed time of the 1960s Taiwan.
At the end of WWII, the Nationalist party of Republic of China, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT),
took control of Taiwan and imposed martial law for 38 years.
