The Seaman(2015)
Ang the seaman was informed of his father's death while staying in Jakarta. Seven days later, he arrives at Kaohsiung with the cargo ship he works in. Inexplicably, Ang receives a phone call from a police telling him that his father was found drunk on the roadside. He decides to help this old man home. Relating to this stranger on a personal level, everything feels remote yet intimate for Ang.
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Ang the seaman was informed of his father's death while staying in Jakarta. Seven days later, he arrives at Kaohsiung with the cargo ship he works in. Inexplicably, Ang receives a phone call from a police telling him that his father was found drunk on the roadside. He decides to help this old man home. Relating to this stranger on a personal level, everything feels remote yet intimate for Ang.
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2015-10-31
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