Buddha Bless America

Buddha Bless America

Where there is a phony peace, there is a phony war.

1996 · 118 min · ★ 5.6 · Comedy

When a military contingent of "mythic" Americans arrive for war games in a little farming village in South Taiwan in the late 1960s, a veritable flood of hilarious cultural and linguistic misunderstandings is loosed on both sides.

Directed by Wu Nien-jen · Written by Wu Nien-jen

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