Formosa Betrayed
2010 · 103 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 1,533 VOTES · DIR. Adam Kane
Overview
In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. His investigation takes him across the Pacific to the island nation of Taiwan, where with the help of the outspoken widow and an unlikely spy, he learns that the Professor's killing was not a random act, but a desperate move by a scandalous government intent on keeping its nefarious activities under wraps. Our detective soon finds himself on a collision course against the U.S. State Department, the Chinese Mafia, and the Nationalist Chinese Government - in a land where the truth is not what it seems and the only people he can trust, cannot be trusted at all. Inspired by actual events.
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00:00:51 All new FBl agents are required to recite
00:03:59 Taiwanese actually.
00:06:45 Well, maybe she was scared shitless of this mob.
00:10:50 Yes.
00:13:15 and l'm going to recommend that you take a nap.
00:18:54 Or a political statement.
00:21:10 Right off the expressway.
00:25:09 allowed one emissary to observe and possibly assist in their investigation.
00:27:13 Mrs. Wen asked me to give you her regards.
00:31:44 Well Agent Kelly
00:34:10 With the Brits in charge, that's for sure.
00:37:05 doesn't become subject to a Communist takeover.
00:40:14 Well, they've been in a state of martial law since '47.
00:44:39 do you?
00:47:55 Come on.
00:53:36 an emissary of the United States was seen at an anti-government rally.
00:58:43 No, no, no, it's okay.
01:02:31 l was doing what l was sent here to do. l was observing.
01:06:48 You're thinking of indicting the Taiwanese government
01:11:09 l'm sorry, but the security police have information
01:16:32 deal to Taiwan exceeding fifty million dollars.
01:23:21 did you think you were going to get away with it?
01:27:39 You don't need to throw out forty years of foreign policy for one man.
01:32:45 you damn well better have something more than just your word to go on!