Taiwan experimental writer-director George Hsins thought-provoking film Aground is inspired by the 47th Hexagram of the Chinese classic I Ching. Backpacker Jin (Avis Zhong) arrives at a guesthouse that
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Taiwan experimental writer-director George Hsins thought-provoking film Aground is inspired by the 47th Hexagram of the Chinese classic I Ching. Backpacker Jin (Avis Zhong) arrives at a guesthouse that offers board in exchange for work. The owner, Old Ji (Ban Tie Hsiang), hands over the house to her & leaves. However, in the middle of the night, a Japanese woman (Okubo Mariko) suddenly appears & kicks Jin out of the house. Old Ji goes to the hospital to take care of a disabled youth (Kenny Kuo) who pleads to be taken to an isl&. The mysterious Japanese woman allows another traveler, a puppeteer named Teng (Hsu Kai Xin), to stay at the guesthouse. In Tengs reinterpretation of Journey to the West, Sun Wukong creates an avatar of himself, Sun Kongwu. All at once, conflicts break out: Jin vs. the Japanese woman, Old Ji vs the youth, Sun Wukong vs Sun Kongwu.