Taiwanese Folktales

At the beginning of Taiwanese films, they were often combined with local theater groups because of the availability and deployment of various resources. Perhaps as a result, a large number of folk tales, such as Sister Lin Tiao" and "Liao Tien Ding, were passed on to the screen in the form of oral stories, and a large number of interludes, often eight, ten or fifteen, filled the narrative space of the film. Although critics regard these works as opera films or opera movies, they were still the artistic benchmarks that filmmakers were striving for at the time, such as the articulation of interior and exterior scenes, lighting, cinematography, and camera language. The Folklore and Legends NFT series brings collectors four Taiwanese films from the 1950s and 1960s based on folk tales and legends, including Fan Li and Shi Shi (1956) and Lin Tou Sister (1956), which came out in the first year of Taiwanese films, The Legend of Sakya (1962), which clashed with the Japanese film of the same name by Daiei, and The Twelve Sisters (1962), a film by Taiwanese film director Lin Fudi. (1962), and the rise of Taiwanese film director Fudi Lin's Twelve Stars (1962), are digital ephemera of the classic Taiwanese film era.