Returning Souls
2012, Chinese. Directed by Hu Tai-Li.
In the historically most famous ancestral house of the matrilineal Amis tribe in Taiwan, the carved pillars tell legends, such as the great flood, the glowing girl, the descending shaman sent by the Mother Sun, and the father-killing headhunting event. After a strong typhoon toppled the house 40 years ago, the pillars were moved to the Institute of Ethnology Museum. Recently young villagers, with assistance from female shamans, pushed the descendants and village representatives to communicate with ancestors in the pillars. They eventually brought the ancestral souls rather than the pillars back and began reconstructing the house.
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Chinese
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- Released
- 16 October 2012
- Original title
- 讓靈魂回家
- Country
- Taiwan
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Returning Souls (2012) was directed by Hu Tai-Li.