THE GREAT BUDDHA+ coming to DVD and Blu-ray on April 26, 2019

Cheng Cheng FIlms

Presents

The Great Buddha+

Written and Directed by HUANG, Hsin-Yao

Starring: CHUANG, Cres / CHEN, Bamboo/ DAI, Leon

Taiwan, 2017, 104 minutes

The Great Buddha+, a terrific Taiwanese satire, will become available on DVD and Blu-ray on April 26th, 2019. The release will include these bonus features: The Great Buddha (short film), Making-of, and Trailer.

Underlining the gap between the olifves of the have-nots and the elites by switching between black and white and glamorous colors, Taiwan's 91st OSCARS® entry The Great Buddha+ vividly illustrates a corrupted village in rural southern Taiwan with memorable style, heartfelt empathy, and whimsical humor. Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies’ will, something horrifying rather than erotic reveals.

THE GREAT BUDDHA + plays in Seattle on Sunday July 1, 2018

Cheng Cheng Films

Presents

THE GREAT BUDDHA +

Written and directed by HUANG Hsin-Yao

Producer by YEH Jufeng and CHUNG Mong-Hong

Starring CHUANG Cres, CHEN Bamboo, and DAI Leon

Taiwan, 2017, 104 minutes

THE GREAT BUDDHA +, a wonderful drama from Taiwan, will be playing in Seattle on Sunday, July 1, 2018 at SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N.

Synopsis:
Provincial friends Pickle and Belly Button idle away their nights in the security booth of a Buddha statue factory, where Pickle works as a guard. One evening, when the TV is on the fritz, they put on video from the boss’s dashcam—only to discover illicit trysts and a mysterious act of violence. Expanded from a short, Huang Hsin-yao’s fiction feature debut The Great Buddha + (the plus sign cheekily nodding to the smartphone model) is a stylish, rip-roaring satire on class and corruption in contemporary Taiwanese society. (New Directors New Films)

I saw the film this past April in conjunction with its New York Premiere at the New Directors New Films series jointly presented by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

AsianCineFest Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars; highly recommended.