Gangland Odyssey (1988)

Original title

大頭仔

Directed by

Tsai Yang Ming

Genre

drama film

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1988 Taiwanese drama is based on the autobiography of a real-life gangster named Wu Jin Cheng. It follows his life in the criminal underworld of central Taiwan.

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What happens

《大頭仔》（英語：Gangland Odyssey），是1988年臺灣鴻泰有限公司將臺灣中部黑道角頭老大吳進成（綽號「大頭仔」）撰寫的自傳《我在黑社會的日子》改編之電影。上映後，行政院新聞局電影事業處和臺北市政府新聞處曾遣派官員往電影院查緝未依規定擅自播放的「台語版」配音版本，並將視違規情況予以處分。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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