On Happiness Road | |
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Chinese | 幸福路上 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Xìng fú lù shàng |
Directed by | Sung Hsin-yin |
Screenplay by | Sung Hsin-yin |
Produced by | Sylvia Feng |
Starring | Gwei Lun-mei Chen Bor-jeng Jane Liao Wei Te-sheng |
Music by | Wen Tzu-chieh |
Production company | Happiness Road Productions |
Distributed by | Ablaze Image[1] |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | Taiwan |
Languages | Taiwanese Hokkien Mandarin English |
Budget | NT$50 million |
Box office | NT$13 million (Taiwan)[2] |
On Happiness Road is a 2017 Taiwanese animated film written and directed by Sung Hsin-yin, her directoral debut. The film is based on her own animated short of the same name which won start-up funding at the Golden Horse Awards in 2013.[3] It was screened at the Busan International Film Festival on October 15, 2017, and saw a theatrical release in Taiwan on January 5, 2018. The film has won numerous awards, including Best Feature Film during the 2018 Tokyo Anime Award Festival, Best Animation Feature at the 2018 Golden Horse Awards, as well as Grand Prize, Best Animation, and Audience Choice Award at the 2018 Taipei Film Festival, and was also submitted for nomination to the 2018 Academy Awards in the Animated Feature Film category.[4] The theme song was sung by pop star Jolin Tsai.