Steve Lee The title is what I believe after I saw this movie.Cape No.7 is a great movie and a humble self-introduction of Taiwan. Few that live in mainland China know the real Taiwan. What are the people like? How is their life there? These questions are not merely out of our curiosity; it's more because we care.Movie has always been a good way of knowing other peoples and cultures. I've always been wanting to know Taiwan through their movies, but the fact is movie industry of Taiwan hasn't been doing well for a long time. If you go to a DVD shop(not to mention cinema) and look for Taiwan movies, mostly, you'll find, or the owner will recommend to you stupid little romances with good-looking faces or extremely low-key boring meaningless experiments(usually in experiments' disguise making erotic stuff), but what we wanna see and the filmmakers in Taiwan should show us is a real Taiwan, a real life of the people. Unlike most other Taiwan movies you can easily find, Cape No.7 is not only a 100% percent authentic Taiwan movie, encouragingly, it's honest and humble too, in order that a real Taiwan will be demonstrated to everyone, including Taiwan natives.And the effort paid off. We see the beauty of the island, and the beauty of its people. You may think of another movie that is like a place's self-introduction, The Barber of Siberia. Critics say Russia in The Barber of Siberia is not the real Russia, which is not that good in fact. You might feel Taiwan in Cape No.7 is not the real Taiwan either; you might think Taiwan could never be such a nice place. Truthfully, Taiwan has its good and bad things, if there is nothing good in Taiwan and the movie tells you it's good then that's called fake; if there are good things and people, and the movie shows the good to us, why should we say it's not real? There is a time to reveal bad and ugly and there is a time to show good and beauty. Same reasoning with The Barber of Siberia. At this moment, why don't we enjoy seeing a good, beautiful and true Taiwan and hope there are more and more movies like Cape No.7.

petsteph1 I live in Taiwan and saw this with English subtitles at my local cinema in Tainan. It's not a stunning movie but it is very engaging and charming and best of all depicts many of the charming and engaging qualities of this country. The storyline follows two love affairs - one of 60 years earlier and the other unfolding in the present day. The acting is fine, the humor works well, it is well photographed and the music that pulls several of the subplots together lifts the already high mood and tone into a moving climax.I'm glad I saw it and feel I know Taiwan a little better through watching this movie - and spent 2 very enjoyable hours doing so.

kenshinusa I personally enjoy this movie very much. It even makes people who are not familiar with Taiwanese history and its complicated ethnic layers in the island can reflect their own experiences of any multi-ethnic, multi-racial and cultures of peripheries to rethink about what makes people get together and achieve their common goal. The background love story happened 60 years ago and is complete by the last act of the letters been delivered gives the main story line the depth of history and humanity. It's a movie of universal humanities about individuals and community, personal destiny vs. national/historical boundaries.I personally wonders why IMDb change this film's name from the very common and its official title of "Cape No. 7" in its data base to the very uncommon system of Hanyu Pinyin (used by PRC) in Taiwan. It's not possible to simply tape "Cape No. 7" and find this film in IMDb's database. Is it a kind of cover up project to reduce this film's visibility in internet? Can anyone tell me why?

gogolooks It's really a wonderful story. I myself live in Taiwan and I just don't like it here. BUt that movie was taken in Tainan and it was really well. I loves it . IT felt really magical and all. THere were a few humor and comedy.... ITs actually funny and romantic. Also it's really nice with the songs and letters from years ago. IT's beautifully written. I recommend it way thru!!!! Its wroth the money. There are beautiful scenes of Taiwan which was really great. SO many Taiwanese have been crazy about it. They even sell the old Mao glasses online for 10000nt or so. And the guitar. Now the lampposts that Aga hit in Taipei is famous too.