A politician, a rock band, and a demand no one expected: give us back our dead.
Kao Chin Su-mei, a former actress and now a legislator in the Taiwan Legislative Yuan (the legislative assembly), is from the Tayal tribe, one of the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. Together with both the Taiwan Aborigine Workgroup, consisting of all the tribes including the Han people, and the aboriginal music group Feijuyuenbao Synectics, she finds the courage to fight for the return of their ancestors’ souls from Japan. Their appeal is unambiguous: “We cannot bear it that our ancestors’ souls are still in Japan. This is because we are not Japanese.”
Direction
Patient vérité that lets confrontation breathe
Score
Feijuyuenbao Synectics' music as protest weapon
Director
NDU
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
May Chin/Kao Chin Su-mei was already famous for Bridge of Fate (1990) before entering politics, making her Taiwan's rare double-threat: box office star and legislative warrior.
The 'headhunter' title deliberately reclaims a slur—Japanese colonial records labeled Tayal warriors this way while collecting their actual heads as specimens.
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