Taipei Times
Date: Dec 03, 2018
Director Kent Chang, who has created an 18-minute pilot for the movie adaptation of
A still from Kent Chang’s pilot for a movie adaptation of Scrolls of a Northern City depicts 1930s Taipei.
Photo courtesy of Kent Chang
the ‘Scrolls of a Northern City’ comic and is raising money for its production, spoke in an interview with ‘Liberty Times’ (sister newspaper of the ‘Taipei Times’) staff reporter Lan Tzu-wei about his project and the process of recreating old Taipei on screen
Liberty Times (LT): “Scrolls of a Northern City” (北城百畫帖), written by comic book artist Shen Ying-chieh (沈穎杰), better known as AKRU, is set in 1935 Taipei, when the city hosted the Taiwan Exposition. She described the mood at the time as a “Taisho Roman in Taiwan.” Why did you choose to adapt “Scrolls of a Northern City”?
Kent Chang (張永昌): In 2013, Mida (夢見), an animated film I directed, participated in the Fancy Frontier anime convention. While I was walking around the convention, I came across Scrolls of a Northern City and was immediately moved by it — especially AKRU’s vision of 1930s Taipei.
The comic is set in the city’s Dadaocheng (大稻埕) area, with which I am very familiar. I do not count myself as being from Taipei. As my father was a police officer and I was born after he was transferred to Taipei, for me, Taipei is home, but also not home. [FULL STORY]
