Wan Jen is a leading figure in Taiwan's New Wave; nevertheless, his 1985 film Super Citizen was necessarily circumspect in its bitter observations about life in Taipei. Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, however, artists have made gains toward an important freedom-freedom from self-censorship. Wan's Super Citizen Ko, intended to be a sequel to Super Citizen, is significantly different: uncompromising, its subject is the anti-communist hysteria of the 1950s with its concomitant repressions. The eponymous Ko I-sheng, handed a life sentence for joining a political study group, unintentionally gives up his friend Chen, who is executed. Ko is released sixteen years later, only to spend the next ten in a nursing home-nursing his guilt over Chen. He leaves to find Chen's grave but on the way must deal with his daughter's recriminations for a life lived at the mercy of these ugly politics. "Super Citizen Ko is a moving, strong, intelligent recreation of a part of history integral to understanding Taiwan." (David Overbey, Toronto Film Festival)