Director:
Ya-che Yang
Run Time: 104 minutes
Country: TAIWAN
Year: 2008
Ya-che Yang
Run Time: 104 minutes
Country: TAIWAN
Year: 2008
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Orz Boyz (Jiong Nan Hoi)
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The “Orz” in ORZ BOYZ is based on an Asian emoticon for bowing in deference. It’s pretty obvious that the two mischievous schoolboys in director Gillies Ya-che Yang’s film bow in deference to no one. On the surface, they’re your average energetic troublemakers, causing mayhem at school, admiring pretty girls from afar, and obsessing over robotic fantasy figures. Their crazed school administrators dub them Liar No. 1 and Liar No. 2, banishing them to the library to repair books. It soon becomes clear, though, that these free spirits each have their share of grown-up size troubles. Their family lives are chaotic at best -- No. 1’s father is mentally incompetent and No. 2’s superstitious grandma’s a lousy caretaker. The boys bond in their belief in an imaginary world called Orz, where achieving passage to Hyper-Space is the ticket to solving all their worldly woes. The film alternates between fantasy sequences featuring eye-popping animation and the boys’ bittersweet reality. Affectionate and heartbreaking, ORZ BOYZ is a critique of issues plaguing contemporary Taiwan. Yang dedicates his film "to children who want to rush into adulthood, as well as grownups who wish to be kids again." (In Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles) – B.B.
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| Sidebars | Pacific Pearls, Family Films |
| Producer | Lieh Lee, Tien-tsung Ma |
| Screenplay | Ya-che Yang |
| Cinematography | Yi-wen Chou |
| Editing | Chen-Ching Lei |
| Music | Yun-Ling Huang, Hsin-Min Chung |
| Principal Cast | Pang Chin-Yu. Lee Kang-Yi, Mei Fang |
| Director Bio | Gillies Ya-che Yang was born in 1971 and graduated from Tamkang University near Taipei. He has written novels, plays, and documentaries. His 2002 youth novel “Blue Gate Crossing” was voted among readers’ 50 best-loved books, and he has written award-winning TV dramas. |
| Select Filmography | ORZ BOYZ (2008) |
| Print Source |
1 Production Film Sanling Chang good.film@msa.hinet.net |
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