GREEN GRASS, PALE FIRE

CAO DI HUO YAN

By Yin-Yu HUANG

MOOLIN PRODUCTION, CO., LTD - as BUYER REP

Thriller - Completed 2021

The three young Taiwanese miners escaped from the notorious Iriomote coal mine and became the wandering ghosts in the jungle of Iriomote Island in the 1930s.

Festivals
& Awards

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021
“Taiwan: Movies on the Move, Classic and Contemporary”
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Thriller, Historical, Social issues
    • Countries
    • JAPAN, TAIWAN
    • Languages
    • TAIWANESE, JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 21 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yin-Yu HUANG
    • Writer(s)
    • Han TIEN , Yin-Yu HUANG
    • Producer(s)
    • Yin-Yu HUANG (Moolin Films, Ltd. / Moolin Production, Co., Ltd.)
    • Synopsis
    • Taking place in the 1930s on one of the outskirt islands of the Japanese Empire, a few “PINGINUMU,” or the escapees, attempt to flee from the infamous “Green Jail” coal mine but loose their ways in the tropical jungle. Reenacted based on true historical events, these escapees suffer from starvation, risk a brutal beat-up if caught, or if lucky, they swim to the nearby shore and regain freedom from the nightmare. They become the hungry wandering living-ghosts that are seeking a way out. After the war, locals of the island have more or less witnessed the miners’ ghosts that remain wandering about, as if they were still the poor souls that lost direction.