The Kinmen Bombs

The Kinmen Bombs
八二三炮戰 (Taiwan)
金門砲戰 (Hong Kong)
Directed byTing Shan-hsi
Written byTing Shan-hsi
Produced byHsu Hsin-chih [zh]
Starring
Production
companies
Central Motion Picture Corporation
Silver Bird Films Ltd.
Kuomintang Central Committee
Distributed byCentral Motion Picture Corporation
Release date
  • 9 October 1986 (1986-10-09)
Running time
108 min.
CountryTaiwan
Budget$30,000,000
Box office$10,096,437[1]

The Kinmen Bombs (八二三炮戰) is a film based on Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. Prior to its release, the Republic of China Armed Forces devoted all their energy to filming the film, deployed a great deal of manpower and equipment to cooperate, and in some scenes, mobilized more than 300,000 people.[2]

The film is about ROC officers and soldiers working together to resist the shelling of Communist army in Kinmen during the 1958, meaning "to defend the last territory of mainland" (保衛大陸的最後疆土).

  1. ^ 1986年台灣票房 Archived 2008-05-01 at the Wayback Machine，〈台灣電影資料庫〉
  2. ^ 江遠：老電影訴說老故事. Merit Times (2006-04-08)