Taiwan films nominated for Asian Pacific Film Awards

TAIPEI: Two Taiwanese films have been nominated for the 2018 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival: Omotenashi and Late Life- The Chien-Ming Wang Story.

Omotenashi is nominated for the International Narrative Feature Competition.

The movie chronicles the breaking down boundaries between tradition and modernity, as well as between cultures.

It is a film that has proven timely and insightful.

Late Life- The Chien-Ming Wang Story is nominated for the International Documentary Feature Competition.

It is a narrative of the years of Wang’s professional baseball player.

The movie gives a poignant account of his life as told by those closest to him, examining his roles as an international player, a father, a son, and a national icon.

The film could be best described as a baseball version of the documentary Linsanity about Jeremy Lin. It chronicles Wang’s last-ditch effort to be recruited by a professional baseball team after a series of injuries.

In the first official trailer for the movie posted on its Facebook fan page, Wang said he just wanted to prove “I can pitch in the Major League again.”

“Of course, I didn’t want to give up; I was not going to concede.” “I wanted to be back on the mound,” Wang said.