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THE NEW FORMOSA MAMBO

新寶島曼波

By Ze YANG, Chung Fu GAO

FISFISA MEDIA CO., LTD. - as PROD / PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2023

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary, Musical, Biography
- Countries
- TAIWAN
- Languages
- MANDARIN (TRADITIONAL), TAIWANESE
- Duration
- 139 mn
- Director(s)
- Ze YANG, Chung Fu GAO
- Synopsis
- The New Formosa Mambo has been called music film of the year. The band Lady MÜ performs five songs based on new and old poems of Yang Ze, with some written especially for the film’s characters and settings. Three generations of musicians give outstanding performances. Representing the younger generation are Chen Chen, in a leading role, and Lin Ying (“Strange girl”), in a supporting role. Indigenous singers Panai and Danubak represent the middle generation. Grandma Chang Ri-Gui, a master of the traditional moon lute, is from the older generation. From poetry recitals to new poems and songs, from traditional ballads to oldies sung in a new key, this film is a series of confessions and testimonies, originating from deep within the soul of Taiwan. Directed, written, and performed by Yang Ze, New Formosa Mambo is a chorus of joy, a great love song dedicated to the island, mountains, and waters of the poet’s youth.