KANO： Taiwanese Movie

KANO: Movie Trailer
(with English subs on Youtube Site)

This is a 2014 Taiwanese movie based on a true story about a high school baseball team going to Koshien for the national championship.  It is an agricultural high school in Kagi (嘉義) in southern Taiwan under the Japanese occupation in 1930s.  

As you can see from this trailer, most dialogues (probably 90% of them) are in Japanese.  It does not go much into political aspect of the Japanese presence in Taiwan as this is a youth baseball movie.

It's a long movie; about 3 hours, but I enjoyed watching the boys, who never won a game, practicing and playing hard, and never slack off.  In Koshien, they did the best they could and reached a point where winning or losing does not really matter much.

Movie Info: Wiki, AsianWiki

KANO: OST
 勇者的浪漫 (風になって）
Sung by Atari Kousuke, Rake,  范逸臣、舒米恩、羅美玲

You Are the Apple of My Eye （那些年，我们一起追的女孩）: Taiwanese Movie

Here's a Taiwanese movie released in 2011 which was a big hit and received well by movie critics. (wiki)  The official English title is "You Are the Apple of My Eye".  As for the literal translation of the original title, it is "In those years, we chased a girl".

The movie is about 2 girls and 5 guys who are classmates in junior high school, and follows them for 10 years from 1995 to 2005.  For me, it's mainly about the first love between the main guy and the girl.  They like each other a lot, but somehow they were not fated.  It's sweet, bitter and sad.  It's reality.   (Sigh...)

(Spoiler)