Coming Soon to a Screen Near You: Taiwan

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Katie Hunt, Coming Soon to a Screen Near You: Taiwan. CNN, Mar 26, 2015.
www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/asia/taiw ... location/index.html

Note:
(a) "Jennifer JAO, head of the Taipei Film Commission"

台北市電影委員會 總監 饒紫娟
(b) "For years, Taiwan, while home to acclaimed filmmakers like Edward Yang 楊德昌 and Hou Hsiao-hsien, was overlooked in favor of its ritzier neighbors Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo."

(c) "Japanese director Takashi Miike used Taiwan's high-speed rail system in a bullet-strewn action sequence for [2013] crime drama 'Shield of Straw,' which competed at the Cannes International Film Festival. Japanese rail authorities turned him away."
(i) Takashi MI-IKE  三池 崇史
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Miike
(1960- )
(ii) Shield of Straw  藁の楯
(iii) Japanese English dictionary
* wara 藁 【わら】 (n): "straw"  (稻草 in Chinese)
* tate 盾(P); 楯 【たて】 (n): "shield; pretext"

(d) "Hong Kong director John Woo 吳宇森 used both Taiwan and China as locations in [2014] 'The Crossing 太平輪.'  Dubbed China's 'Titanic,' it focuses on a ship that sank when the Nationalist government fled China for Taiwan in 1949 as the Communists took over * * * Chinese authorities asked Woo to tone down the heroics of a Nationalist soldier, according to the South China Morning Post -- not something that Taiwan would ever require, says Jao."