Blue Gate Crossing

Kerou is a college student age 17. Like other girls her age, she is in search of herself. Somewhat of a dreamer, she still lacks self-assurance and she misses the state of negligence and freedom typical of childhood. Shihao is a handsome seductive boy with a touch of the rebel in his blood. He is quite the favorite among the girls. Yuezhen, Kerou?s best friend, feels jealous of him and is angry at him. Although Shihao is out to win the championship swimming meet at school, he feels much drawn by Kerou?s mysterious ways and would like to win her. One day, Kerou suddenly comes on the scene, when Shihao is in the middle of a training session, for a heart-felt talk. What she is to tell him is to affect him deeply. Together, the two teenagers are to have their first glimpse of the pleasures of the adult world, but equally of the disappointments of the adult world. The movie belongs to a series of six films (Tales of Changing China), from which the 25th Mostra showed Beijing Bicycle, by Wang Xiaoshuai, and Betelnut Beauty, by Lin Cheng-Sheng.

After graduating from Taiwan`s Cheng-chi University with a degree in western literature, Yee Chih-yen entered the UCLA`s film production program in theater arts.His student works have won recognition, winning the 1987 Golden crown for Best Short Film, and was nominated for the Samuel Goldwyn script competition. Graduating in 1988, Yee returned to Taiwan to work in advertising industry. His works have won the China Times Commercial Awards, and Yee became a well-known director of commercials. Beside directing for television and the cinema, he also functioned as a producer, scriptwriter and critic, and has lectured on films. in a ten-year period, Yee has directed many TV dramas and made his movie debut with LONELY HEARTS CLUB in 1995, a film about problems of youth and homosexuality. BLUE GATE CROSSING is his second film.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA