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Undercurrent
Overview
On a winter evening in 1979, the arrest of anti-government protesters is underway. The city is under curfew, but a teenage student, out of curiosity, follows a mysterious young man from a riverside path into an abandoned hut. Living in Taiwan under martial law, are men constantly escaping from government, society, or the affection buried in their hearts?
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Huang Li-feng
Teenager
Chang Chih-han
Youth
Wu Ming-Fan
Police
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