Daichi Asai

台北旧市街で母と暮らす女性ロロは、古い本のページに挟まれた1枚の風景写真を見つける。裏面には、顔も知らない日本人の父の名前が記されていた。ロロは母から、父は生後間もないロロと母を捨てて故郷の沖縄へ帰ったと聞かされていた。ロロは父に会って真相を確かめるべく、日本語を勉強中の友人アーロンを誘って沖縄へと旅立つ。しかし写真を手がかりに目指した「みらく島」は旧盆の3日間、部外者の立ち入りを禁じていた。ロロとアーロンは半ば強引に船に乗り込んで島へ向かうが……。

Haruo Sugimura is fresh from serving a two-year stint in prison for assaulting someone when he is recruited by a loan shark named Sakai to help collect money for a company called Minami Hachi Ban Kogyo, baesd in Osaka. Their rates are ruthless: 10% interest is added every 10 days. Their customers are desperate: a hostess who owes money to other loan sharks, a man made suicidal because his family don’t love him anymore. Haruo learns about the art of the loan shark as well as the dark side of peoples personalities.

A crime film depicting the fall of a man who is entangled in a criminal organization and accustomed to violence and the vicious cycle of violence.

The film documents the rise and fall of the Wufeng Lin family in Wufeng, Taiwan over the turbulent years of Taiwan under the administrations of the Qing dynasty, Japan, and Republic of China.