冰點 Freezing Point

Title: Freezing Point
Director: LU Yu-Jui


Synopsis:

This is a story about the workers in a cold storage, and about the first mate on an open-ocean fishing boat. The Chien-Chen fishing port was built in 1967; it was about that year when Taiwan fishing industry widely expanded and developed. This development brought a large number of cold storages. These cold storages were tasked with processing, freezing, and transporting the fish catch of squid, mackerel, and tuna.

Five years ago Shia-hua worked at a cold storage in Taiwan. Under his father's influence, he decided to board on a fishing trip to catch mackerel in the frosty waters of Hokkaido, Japan. It's June.

The characters of this story were Amis, one group of Taiwan's indigenous peoples from Eastern Taiwan who have devoted themselves to ocean fishing. It's an unspeakably hard life, indeed.

【冰點】

故事是關於冷凍廠工人和遠洋漁船大副……

民國56年前鎮漁港落成，台灣遠洋漁業開始發展，前鎮漁港周邊有許多冷凍廠，冰凍著魷魚、秋刀魚、鮪魚等遠洋漁貨，「出魚班」的工作就是搬運這些冷凍庫裡的漁貨，有工就做，沒工就休息打牌。

大副夏華(Yiyung)六月將前往寒冷的北海道捕撈秋刀魚，五年前他也曾在出魚班工作，受父親影響決定上遠洋漁船工作……。

他們都來自台灣的東部，默默地為遠洋漁業付出……難以言語的辛勞。