Where to Watch The Strait Story

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Below, you'll find a number of top-tier streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'The Strait Story' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'The Strait Story' right now, here are some particulars about the history flick.

Released , 'The Strait Story' stars Freddy Lim, Janine Chang, Yuki Hsu, Jag Huang The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 46 min, and received a user score of 30 (out of 100) on TMDb, which collated reviews from 2 top users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back home before leaving for China. He boards the passenger liner "Takachiho Maru" in Kobe, Japan, with his girlfriend, a pianist. Tragically, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan. Decades later, Shou-shou, a fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings in an exhibition. As she restores the painting, Shou-shou learns about the artist, the stories behind his work and his death at sea. She recreates the story of the painting "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the ways the artist painted his girlfriend. The more she studies, the more she was inspired by Huang's value of art and of life. Restoring Huang's painting thus becomes Shou-shou's way of ..." .