Banana Paradise

This film (drama)Also known as香蕉天堂，is aTaiwan, ChinaProducerwomen sex，At1989Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese, Hokkien，Current Douban rating8.5(For reference only)。

In the final stages of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the earnest Men Shuan (played by Niu Chengze) goes to join his compatriot Li Desheng (played by Zhang Shi), who is serving as a cook in the army. Li allows Men Shuan to replace the deceased soldier Zuo Fugui's identity to join the military and also helps him acquire the name Liu Jinyuan. The two, in their naivety, follow the army to Taiwan, which is said to be rich in bananas, and become members of the army's propaganda team. However, they are suspected of being spies due to the name they borrowed. Li Desheng is arrested first, and fearing being implicated, Men Shuan escapes, encountering Yue Xiang (played by Zeng Qingyu) and her son along the way. Yue Xiang’s husband, Li Qilin, has died of illness. To take care of her and her son, Men Shuan takes over her husband’s identity, finding work using the deceased’s diploma from Fu Jen Catholic University’s English department. With his low education level, Men Shuan pretends to be a high-achieving English student, putting him in peril. He is recognized by a comrade in the arts troupe and has to rely on his older brother Li Desheng, who helps him transfer to another unit, where he temporarily finds refuge with a banana farmer. However, Desheng's mental state fluctuates due to torture, and one day he goes mad, alarming the troops, which inadvertently exposes Men Shuan’s identity as a deserter, putting him in great danger. Later, Men Shuan, using Li Qilin's identity, passes the civil service exam, and his life stabilizes as he cares for Yue Xiang and her child while looking after the mentally unstable Desheng, enduring hardships without complaint. Forty years pass, and Taiwan allows people to visit relatives in the mainland. Yue Xiang’s son finds his grandfather in Shandong and brings him to Hong Kong. The grandfather makes a long-distance phone call to ask his parents to come to Hong Kong for a family reunion. Men Shuan panics, fearing that the secret he has kept for forty years will be exposed, and hurriedly asks Yue Xiang to recall old memories with her father-in-law. Unexpectedly, Yue Xiang is also an impostor. It turns out she was rescued by a student from Fu Jen Catholic University’s English department during the turmoil. This student’s wife had just died, leaving behind a baby, and he was also ill, so Yue Xiang traveled with him to help care for the child. After the student dies, he leaves his diploma to Yue Xiang. Men Shuan and Yue Xiang cry together, lamenting their unfortunate experiences, but he still bears the pain internally and musters the courage to meet his "son." After forty years apart, the "father" and "son" begin to talk. Although they are strangers on either end of the phone, they share a common sense of separation and sorrow; when Men Shuan hears Li's father talk about the mother's passing, he can no longer distinguish whose parents are being spoken of, and he weeps uncontrollably...