quietearth [Celluloid 05.09.08] movie news drama



An official selection at IFFR this year, Variety calls this a "small time gangster tale gussied up with existential musings" and says that it's "hardly worth the wait." Lucky for me I could care less about someone else's review if I like the looks of the film. Soul of a Demon is a family drama about the past, identity, and the future which is (hopefully) mixed with some violence, Synopsis and link to official website with clips (click on English then click on Trailer on lower left hand side) after the break.

"Che completes a three-year jail term and returns to his home in the fishing port of Nanfangao. Che took the rap for a crime actually committed by his younger brother Ren: the stabbing of a young punk named Yao, son of the gangster Shun. Ren has spent the last three years in Japan with their father Chang, who left them when they were very young and who has come to think of himself as Japanese during his long exile. Now Chang is also coming back to Nanfangao to settle his long-running rivalry with Shun.


Che hooks up with his former girlfriend Pei, who has stopped speaking since suffering an emotional trauma. Che goes through the motions of a reconciliation meeting with Shun, but finds himself increasingly haunted by the sense that he has lost his own identity and by the need to settle some very old scores. He takes Pei on a trip to Lanyu Island to visit his mother's grave; she was an aboriginal woman who killed herself when she realised that her husband had abandoned her. When Chang arrives in Nanfangao, Che refuses to meet him and takes no part in the jockeying for power and status with Shun. But the time comes when he can no longer avoid confronting his father."

Official website with clips

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