He’s Still Young

Director LIN Jing-jie’s feature film The Most Distant Course won the Critics’ Week Award in Venice Film Festival in 2007, and was selected as the opening film for 2007 Taipei Film Festival.

The documentary crew followed WU Sheng to his hometown in Hsichou, Changhua. They also traveled to Vancouver to visit WU’s mentor and friend, the writer Ya-hsien. During filming, a political controversy broke out involving the Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation and his daughter, who was then its general manager. The film, which presents WU Sheng as a warm and three-dimensional figure, is a rare work that closely links a writer’s literary beliefs with his life events.