Three Tears in Borneo

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Three Tears in Borneo
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	聽海湧
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin tīng hǎi yǒng
Genre	Drama Suspense Thriller
Directed by	Sun Jie-heng
Starring	Guan-zhi Huang Han Wu Edward Jhu Cindy Lien Shih Ming-shuai
Country of origin	Taiwan
Original language(s)	Taiwanese Hokkien Xiamen Hokkien Southeast Asian Hokkien Japanese English Iban
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	5
Release
Original network	Public Television Service
Original release	17 August 2024 (2024-08-17)
External links
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Three Tears in Borneo (Chinese: 聽海湧; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Thiaⁿ Hái-éng) is a 2024 Taiwanese war drama television series directed by Sun Chieh-Heng and starring Guan-zhi Huang, Han Wu, Edward Jhu, Cindy Lien, Shih Ming-shuai. Set during World War II in Borneo, the five-episode series premiered on Taiwan Public Television Service on August 17, 2024.

The series garnered attention for its exploration of Taiwan's wartime identity but also faced controversy for alleged historical inaccuracies and distortion of real-life figures. PTS organized public forums to address these criticisms, with the creators clarifying that the show is inspired by historical events but features entirely fictional characters.

Synopsis

During the closing years of the Pacific War, the Japanese Empire conscripted Taiwanese youths as auxiliary personnel, sending them to Borneo to oversee Allied prisoners of war. After the war, Australian forces discovered evidence of a massacre at a prisoner of war camp trench, where 42 corpses were unearthed. Taiwanese overseers were accused of war crimes, including mistreatment and the massacre of prisoners of war, and were subsequently tried in an Australian military court.

Cast

• Han Wu (吳翰林) as Shinkai Sihon (新海志遠, Shin Kai Chih-Yuan) aka Tsì-uán (志遠) or A-Uán (阿遠), Taiwanese overseer accused of being the first perpetrator in the trench massacre.
• Guan-zhi Huang (黃冠智) as Shinkai Akira (新海輝, Shin Kai Hui) aka Îng-hui (榮輝), Taiwanese overseer.
• Edward Jhu (朱宥丞) as Shinkai Kitoku (新海木德, Shin Kai Mu-Te) aka Bo̍k-tik (木德) or Tik-á (德仔), another Taiwanese overseer.
• Shih Ming-shuai as Lô Tsìn-hok (羅進福, Luo Chin-Fu), Fujianese diplomat of the Republic of China, captured as a prisoner of war in Borneo.
• Lian Yu-Han (連俞涵) as Hô Kíng-gî (何景儀, He Ching-Yi), Luo Chin-Fu's wife.
• Andrew Chau (周厚安) as William Cole, Australian military prosecutor handling the trench massacre case.
• Runa (塗茂るな) as Sakura Asada (淺田櫻子), Sihon's Japanese girlfriend, the daughter of a sugar factory owner.

References

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