Return of the Free China Junk

In 1955, sailors of a historic wooden Chinese sailing junk journeyed across the Pacific. Today, their family embark on an improbably voyage of their own: saving the original vessel from the scrapheap and bringing it home.

"In this new film Dione Chen, the daughter of Huloo’s junk-mate Reno, heads an international effort to rescue the historic junk before it’s turned into firewood in California and return it to Taiwan. It takes heroic persistence to make it happen, but Dione’s project finds support on both sides of the Pacific, and crucially from a Taiwan ready to embrace its conflicted past. By the time Huloo and his two surviving junkmates, all in their 80s, rejoin the junk at their original point of departure, you may be as moved as they are by the cohesion of resources and goodwill that’s gone into keeping their legend alive." (New Zealand International Film Festival)

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