A Taiwanese Robin Hood with a glider? Yes, and it's glorious.
Flight Man takes place in Taiwan in 1933, when the country was under Japanese occupation after the First Sino-Japanese War. The Taiwanese people have signed a petition to have the Japanese establish a Taiwan council, but instead this merely provokes the Japanese police to hunt down and round up everyone who signed the petition.
Stunts
Pre-CGI glider sequences that'll make your palms sweat.
Costume
Flight Man's cape: cinema's most aerodynamic drip.
Director
Ting Shan-Hsi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Taiwan's martial law period, this was one of few films to explicitly depict Japanese colonial violence—allegory for then-current KMT oppression.
The glider was reportedly a modified training sailplane; insurance for actors was nonexistent in 1973 Taiwan, making those aerial shots genuinely life-threatening.
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