John Woo, Wei Te-Sheng Launch Seediq Bale With Vivian Hsu

Producer John Woo and wife

Vivian Hsu (HunanTV)

BBQ!

Vivian and her mother (Xinhua)

John Woo

Vivian Hsu and Seediq Bale poster

Memorial service to commemorate the Wushe Incident

Wushe Monument

Wei Te-Sheng's (Cape No. 7) new film will be about the massacre of Taiwan aboriginals by the Japanese during the occupation.  Financing for the big budget is short and Vivian Hsu offered to sell a $35M Yuan house her father gave her to help fund the film. John Woo and Terence Chang are considering cross-strait coproduction possibility and plan to engage Japanese and South Korean special effects teams. Wei has begun casting for about 30 aboriginal Taiwanese. A 2011 release is targeted. (Sina)