Writer/director Wei Te-sheng’s spirited small-town epic is Taiwan’s biggest-ever box-office sensation and official entry for the 2009 Academy Awards. The story of the unlikely rise of an exceptional rock band comes bounded by an older tale of unrequited love with the resurfacing of a cache of seven letters written by a Japanese schoolteacher to his secret love, named Tomoko, as he was forced to leave Taiwan after World War II. More than 60 years later, amid dramatic changes in Taiwan society, seven unexceptional individuals with nothing in common are brought together by another Tomoko to form the warm-up band for a beach concert in a short time. The prospects seem bleak given the friction between Tomoko and lead singer Aga, a substitute postman with undelivered mail piling up in his room. When Tomoko realizes Aga has those fated seven letters, she insists they must be delivered, even if the address, Cape No. 7, no longer exists.

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Written by Wei Te-sheng. Photographed by Chin Ting-chang. With Van, Chie Tanaka, Ying Wei-min, Min Hsiung, Ma Nien-hsien. (129 min, in Mandarin and Japanese with English subtitles, Good Films Workshop)