The well-known scene of the "Wushe Street" in director Wei Te-Sheng's highly anticipated film, "Seediq Bale", may soon be available for the public to visit.
The set itself cost more than 80 million NT dollars to construct, and following the end of the shooting days of the movie, Wu has spent close to 3 million NT dollars already just to preserve the location.
In response to Wei's request for the government's assistance, the Cultural Affairs Department has since expressed their interest in maintaining the site, with a plan of making it into a destination by August.
After the success of movie "Cape No. 7", director Wei Te-Sheng started the shooting of his second film "Seediq Bale", which is based on the anti-Japanese uprisings during the Japanese colonial period, known as the Wushe Incident.
In the incident in 1930, Seediq hero Mona Rudao led his tribe to fight against Japanese military forces.
In order to re-create the life during that time, director Wei Te-Sheng invited well-known Japanese set designers to produce the "Wushe Street" for the epic feature film.
Walking into the set, you'll see military headquarter, post office, clinics, shops and even hotels that reflect the time period.
All the houses are built with neat details of the time, as well as the small hill where the fought took place.
It took the production team 6 months, 300 workers and nearly 80 million NT dollars to build the whole Wushe Street.
The 12,000-ping movie set is built on a private land located in the Taipinglin of Linkou District, New Taipei City.
However, the movie set was so beautifully built that it is a pity to tear it down after the movie is finished.
Wei has paid extra 2.8 million NT dollars of rent for the past 7 months to preserve the scene.
He also paid a visit to New Taipei City mayor Eric Chu, hoping that the government can help preserve the movie set.
Upon hearing Wei's request, mayor Eric Chu ordered the Cultural Affairs Department of the New Taipei City government to take over the management of Wushe Street.
The Cultural Affairs Department said that the street will be reopened to the public at the end of August after it receives the license, and will charge some cleaning fees from visitors.
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