童年夢 The Land to Live

Title: The Land to Live
Director: KE Wan Ching

Synopsis:

There are about 150,000 Hakka residents populating the Kaohsiung area. Most of them migrated from northern Taiwan in the 1930s in search of better farming land. They diligently tended to their fields scattered around east of Love River. Due to urban planning and land redistribution, some became land owners, but some had to give it all up to the government.

高雄市的客家人號稱有十五萬之多，其中大部份為桃竹苗的北客，從不易耕種的丘陵地南下至有水源的平地，移民至高雄的時間大約在一九三○年代的日據後期。早年高雄市尚未開發，愛河以東放眼一片阡陌，勤儉持家的客家人，從貧苦的小佃農開始新生活，直到一九四○年代後期土地改革才開始慢慢轉變為自耕農。如今，這群克勤克儉的客家佃農，又因都市重劃有了另一番人生轉折，有人就此成為大地主，也有人土地被政府徵收，無奈地放棄所有…。透過年輕第四代客家移民的口述，一段移民人生，不同的生命際遇與家族故事，就在高雄這個變遷快速的城市展開。