By Chen Cheng-yu and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writerThree lawmakers yesterday promoted Yeh Shih-tao, A Taiwan Man （台灣男子葉石濤）, a documentary telling the story of Taiwanese writer Yeh Shih-tao （葉石濤）, directed by Hsu Huei-lin （許卉林）.
Three lawmakers yesterday promoted Yeh Shih-tao, A Taiwan Man (台灣男子葉石濤), a documentary telling the story of Taiwanese writer Yeh Shih-tao (葉石濤), directed by Hsu Huei-lin (許卉林).
Key Taiwan Forward members, including Democratic Progressive Party legislators Wang Ting-yu (王定宇), Chao Tien-lin (趙天麟) and Michelle Lin (林楚茵), at a news conference called on the public to join the special screenings of the film across Taiwan.
There are to be eight to 10 screenings of the documentary.
Executive producer Lin Ching-chieh (林靖傑) said that many of his friends warned him against being too close to politicians, but the documentary tells the story of a great literary
Director Masato Harada’s period film focuses on the rise and fall of the infamous Shinsengumi samurai corps during the years of political tumult leading up to the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
Painter Mitsumasa Anno (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Celebrated painter and illustrator Mitsumasa Anno, whose landscape drawings in pale watercolors and playful picture books earned him international awards and acclaim, died from cirrhosis of the liver on Dec. 24.
He was 94. Anno s funeral was held privately by his family.
Architect Tadao Ando, who designed the Mitsumasa Anno Art Museum in Tango, Kyoto Prefecture, described the artist as “a painter who kept drawing landscapes that are disappearing in the world and in Japan.”
“In an age that digital technology is so powerful, he left us with a gentle and heartwarming world,” Ando said.