"Golden Triangle: Tears of the Lone Soldier" reveals that the children of the Lone Soldier still adhere to the education of "loyalty, filial piety, justice," while living in a foreign country. (Provided by Haipeng)
[Reporter Zhong Zhijun/Taipei Report] The documentary "Golden Triangle: Tears of the Solitary Soldiers" was directed by director Wu Pinghai and his team, which lasted three years and went deep into the Thailand-Myanmar border four times. Not only did they find the first generation of lonely soldiers and their descendants, but they also brought the Taiwanese intelligence organization "Guangwu Force", which had rarely been seen by the public in the past, to the big screen.
Among them, the one that has the most sense of an espionage movie is a piece of confidential information from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China called "Document No. 4". According to the research conducted by Su Shengxiong, an associate researcher at the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica, using declassified files, the full name of "Document No. 4" is "Notice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China [1972] No. 4 Document", which involves Lin Biao's fall from power and death. After the document was obtained by the intelligence network, it was passed through Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, and finally returned to Taipei. At that time, it was even handed over to the US Central Intelligence Agency to verify the source of the paper. Research from the Academia Sinica pointed out that this is also one of the most notable intelligence achievements of the "Guangwu Force".
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"Golden Triangle: Lone Soldier Tears" reveals the true situation of the great era of 1977. (Provided by Haipeng)
The "Guangwu Force" is actually not exactly the same as the commonly known Thai-Myanmar lone army. Research points out that the force was established in 1965 and mainly carried out assault infiltration and intelligence collection missions on the Thai-Myanmar border. It has carried out hundreds of operations. With the drastic changes in the international situation in the 1970s, supply and diplomatic pressure increased, it finally officially entered history in June 1975.
"Golden Triangle: Tears of the Lonely Soldier" interviews Wang Genshen, a member of the Guangwu Army at that time, and brings this group of characters who have only existed in archives and oral accounts for a long time to the audience so directly for the first time.
"Golden Triangle: Lonely Soldier's Tears" lasted three years and was filmed four times in the Golden Triangle area on the border of Thailand and Myanmar. (Provided by Haipeng)
On the other side of the story are the troops who evacuated from Yunnan to the borders of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos after 1949. Some of them died in battle, some stayed in foreign lands to take root, and some never waited until the day they "returned home".
The team left the camera to the descendants living in northern Thailand today, watching the children learn Chinese and write calligraphy, and re-asked what "nationality, hometown and identity" really mean. The film also obtained the relevant image authorization from Zhu Yanping's "Foreign Land", allowing the familiar "stateless citizens" on the screen in the past to meet the descendants who are still living in foreign lands today.
"Golden Triangle: Tears of the Lonely Soldier" is directed by Wu Pinghai (left) and produced by Xie Xiaoyun. It is also more complete with the image authorization from famous director Zhu Yanping (middle). (Provided by Haipeng)
The film opens directly back to 2023, recording the historical moment when 948 lonely heroes who were laid to rest in a foreign land returned to Taiwan and were enshrined in the National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine. After decades of leaving their homeland, this group of people finally returned to Taiwan in another form, which gave the entire film a strong time weight. "Golden Triangle: Lonely Soldier Tears" will be released in Taiwan on October 23.
*Note: The "Guangwu Force" is a secret special operations and intelligence guerrilla force established by former President Chiang Ching-kuo on the Thai-Myanmar border in 1965. It has about 2,000 members. It is composed of troops dispatched from Taiwan by the Republic of China, Thai-Burmese lone troops, and local ethnic minorities (Miao, Yao, Baiyi, etc.). It has gone deep into Yunnan and inland China to collect intelligence, and has carried out more than 700 infiltration and assault missions. Through intensive infiltration and successful psychological warfare, it once aroused doubts and fears within the CCP, triggering internal turmoil such as the "Special Agent Zhao Jianmin Case", and was even regarded as a threat by Thailand and Myanmar. The "Guangwu Force" successfully captured the "No. 4 Document" of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and revealed the secrets of Lin Biao's fall and death in advance, which can be regarded as a "brilliant" achievement. Unfortunately, due to international political considerations, it was demobilized and abolished in 1975 and passed into history.
