Yu-Fen Tsai

Documentary about making of "Three Tears in Borneo".

After surviving a Ponzi scheme resulted from an information gap in Myanmar, a Taiwanese shrimp farmer, Du, collaborates with a local Chinese-Burmese, Su, to keep his shrimp business going. It is a story about how they work from the beginning to the end.

Yu Opera is the most important local opera in Henan, China. Because of the large population migration caused by the civil war in 1949, Yu Opera went from Henan to Vietnam, and finally moved to Taiwan and took root in Taiwan. Today, Yu Opera has become a Taiwanese Yu Opera, with traditions, innovations, homesickness and local presence.

On one deep-sea fishing ship, a seasoned captain; a chief engineer who is retiring soon; a experienced Filipino worker who speaks a bit of Taiwanese and English; an unskilled Indonesian comes working on the ship because the agency told him that he could earn money faster. Everyone on the ship has his own purpose and longing. In the ocean, their world is only made with the deck, and the cabin. Emotions can be magnified, collide and intertwine with each other in this cramped space, and no one can escape from it.

An old fridge and three sensitive women in an old flat. A mysterious sound starts to spread across the flat, echoing their inner world.

An old fridge and three sensitive women in an old flat. A mysterious sound starts to spread across the flat, echoing their inner world.

During World War II, Shinkai Shion, a guard of prisoner-of-war in Borneo, was involved in a massacre. As the suspect, he realized the nature of war as he revealed the truth.