Only Sun Knows

Weng Nao (29), a Taiwanese youth who claims to be the next master in the Japanese literary world, arrives in the blooming modern city Tokyo in 1934. However, as a result of the rogue and decadent life, his manuscript of writing is useless rubbish, and his love letters to Japanese girls are regarded as ugly harassment. The sight of his birth mother’s figure under the colonial red sun keeps haunting him within various love affairs and sensual experiences. He begins to write a novella that an adopted daughter and her biological father find each other after experienced countless difficulties. Nevertheless, the determination of the Japanese authorities to root out the left- ‐wing thought and the Communist Party cannot be questioned. Nao’s previous works which are describing Taiwan’s poor peasants were reported as supporting the proletariat. He is printed guilty. Like the protagonist in his novella, he set a new life as a true Japanese from Kobe Port and ends up being a nameless shadow under the sun of Empire. Another exile begins. A writer, a man, a Japanese or a Taiwanese. Maybe only the sun knows.
(Source: Festival des 3 Continents)