ShuQi Road, past and present 文／阿妹茶樓負責人阿妹

Japanese wood slippers (geta) make a “click clack” noise and that noise makes up the road name (Taiwanese pronunciation). One town elder said that there weremany brothels here with women from Japan and Korea. After the mining days of 70’s and 80’s, everything went away except seniors, children and cats Famedfilm director Hou Hsiao-Hsien noticed this time period’s splendor and filmed international acclaimed film “A city of sadness” based on it. Japanese Anime masterShun Miyazaki stayed five hours at ShuQi Road’s A-mei Tea House before finding his inspiration and jotted down scene after scene. It is not difficult to see manycharacters and background similar to sites here in his movie “Spirited Away”.