1895
Taiwan Poster
Directed by	Hung Chih-yu [zh]
Starring	Cheryl Yang Lee Chia-yin James Wen
Music by	Deon Lee Jeffrey Cheng
Distributed by	20th Century Fox Taiwan
Release date	November 7, 2008 (2008-11-07)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Taiwan
Languages	Hakka Hokkien Taiwanese Mandarin Japanese
Budget	NT$60 million

Blue Brave: The Legend of Formosa 1895, known simply as 1895 (Chinese: 1895乙未; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: It-pat-kiú-ngó͘ It-bī); Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Yit-pat-kíu-ńg Yet-vùi, is a Taiwanese Hakka film based on the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan in 1895, with emphasis on the Hakka fighters and their families in the conflict. The film has a limited budget of NT$60 million with roughly half of it provided by the Council for Hakka Affairs of the Executive Yuan.^[1] The film was released on November 7, 2008, and was the highest-grossing Taiwanese film in that year.^{[citation needed]}

Plot

Reception

The film won the Best Drama Series award in the Asian Television Awards in 2009. A review published in the Taipei Times stated that the film "educational at best" and geared toward students and teachers of history.^[2]