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| Chinese | 去年冬天 |
| Literal meaning | Last Year's Winter |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Qùnián Dōngtiān |
| Directed by | Hsu Hsiao-ming |
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| Cinematography | Yang Wei-han |
| Edited by | Chen Bo-wen |
| Music by | Chyi Chin & Red Band |
Production company | Scholar Films |
Release date | 1995 |
Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Languages | Mandarin, Hokkien |
Heartbreak Island is a 1995 Taiwanese drama film directed by Hsu Hsiao-ming. The film follows a recently released woman prisoner as she visits her ex who was arrested in the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident but released before her. The film makes extensive use of flashbacks to illustrate the woman's thoughts.
Writing for The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote: "The mood of Heartbreak Island is so glumly monochromatic that the characters remain at a chilly distance, and the movie remains locked in its own sealed-off sense of despair."[1]
