1895 (2008 film)

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1895
Taiwan Poster
Directed byHung Chih-yu [zh]
Starring
Music by
Distributed by20th Century Fox Taiwan
Release date
  • November 7, 2008 (2008-11-07)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryTaiwan
Languages
BudgetNT$60 million

Blue Brave: The Legend of Formosa 1895, known simply as 1895 (Chinese: 1895乙未; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: It-pat-kiú-ngó͘ It-bī); Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Yit-pat-kíu-ńg Yet-vùi, is a 2008 Taiwanese Hakka film based on the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan in 1895, with emphasis on the Hakka fighters and their families in the conflict. The film has a limited budget of NT$60 million with roughly half of it provided by the Council for Hakka Affairs of the Executive Yuan.[1]

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The film won the Best Drama Series award in the Asian Television Awards in 2009. A review published in the Taipei Times stated that the film "educational at best" and geared toward students and teachers of history.[2]

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  1. ^ 「1895乙未」,陳坤厚執導,楊謹華、李佳穎、溫昇豪主演
  2. ^ Ho, Yi (7 November 2008). "[FILM] '1895' not one for the history books". Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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