Tian pu sa

1987
1h 36m

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The story about the arrest and enslavement of a crashed American airman by a backward tribe of the Yi people in central Sichuan during WWII.The story about the arrest and enslavement of a crashed American airman by a backward tribe of the Yi people in central Sichuan during WWII.The story about the arrest and enslavement of a crashed American airman by a backward tribe of the Yi people in central Sichuan during WWII.

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7.3/10

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8cloudsponge

A Different World

I saw this in Japan in 1989 and it still haunts me. I couldn't understand but few of the Japanese subtitles, and what little English dialog there was at the beginning was ludicrous: obviously written by a non-English speaker.

The story portrays an American soon after WWII who ends up, not of his own will, living a good length of time among South-East Asian or South China hill tribes. There occurs a fascinating gradual acculturation/assimilation.

The images: colors; native costumes; different ways of living and behavior to what we consider normal; remote peoples; dramatic incidents; the "human" element, all fascinate.