Int’l Critics Line: Anna Smith On Taiwan’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘A Sun’

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Next time someone asks what’s good on Netflix, you might want to point them to this winner that’s been lurking there since January 2020.

A victor at the Golden Horse Awards and now shortlisted for the International Feature Film Oscar, A Sun is a bold, involving tale of crime, punishment, tragedy and healing — all within a seemingly ordinary family of four in Taiwan.The trouble, and the film, starts when a teenager known as A-ho (Wu Chien-Ho), storms into a restaurant with Radish, who’s wielding a machete.

A-ho, we later learn, thinks they are going to scare a boy called Oden, but Radish goes one step further and slices Oden’s hand off, catapulting it into a pan of hot, fresh soup.