Taipei, July 5, 2026 (AFP) - Taiwanese film hunters rescue ageing reels from bygone era

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2026-07-05

In a dimly lit red-brick house in central Taiwan, film hunter Wang Wei and his team haul out ageing film reels, salvaging the fragile remnants of a cinema boom that nearly vanished from history. Rare Taiwanese-language films -- known locally as "taiyupian" -- flourished briefly from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s under the Kuomintang (KMT) government, which fled to Taiwan following its defeat by the Chinese Communist Party. Until it lifted marti......

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