Winds of September

The film is a coming of age tale set during the year of the Taiwan baseball scandal. In 1996, news breaks out that professional baseball players are being paid by local gangsters to lose games for underground betting. The news shocks the country. In Hsin-Chu, the windy city, nine high school kids will face the question of what friendship really means to them in a cruel world where there is no definition of right and wrong.

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Script: Henry Tsai, Tom Shu-Yu Lin

Cinematography: Fisher Yu

Editing: Chen Hsiao-Dong

Sound: Chou Cheng, Frank Cheng

Music: Blaire Ko

Actors: Rhydian Vaughan (Yen), Chang Chieh (Tang), Jennifer Chu (Yun),Wang Bo-Chieh (Hsing), Lin Chi-Tai (Chao)

Production: FilmMall & Ocean Deep Films

Producers: Eric Tsang, Yeh Jufeng

Art Direction: Lee Tien-Chue

Costumes: Sun Hui-Mei

Format: 35mm Color

Production Country: Taiwan

Production Year: 2008

Duration: 107

Contact: Mei Ah Entertainment Group Limited, Hong KongT. +85 22 7513 388F. +85 22 6239 880sara@meiah.com

Tom Shu-Yu Lin

He was born in 1976 and he is one of the promising new directors emerging from Taiwan. Since he lived in both the United States and Taiwan when he was a child, his films all carry a distinctive mix of cultural backgrounds. In 2003, after receiving his film M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts, he started working on various film productions. His film "The Pain of Others" won various awards, including Best Narrative Film Award at the Taipei FF 2006.