More than 60 years after the teacher left Kojima Tomoko, Aga is introduced as a struggling young Hengchun-native rock band singer who could not find success in Taipei. After returning to his hometown, Aga's step father, the Town Council Representative, arranged a position for him as a postman, replacing the senile Uncle Mao, on leave after a motorcycle accident broke his leg. One day Aga comes across an undeliverable piece of mail that was supposed to be returned to the post office: the daughter of the now deceased Japanese teacher has decided to mail the unsent love letters to Taiwan after discovering them. Aga unlawfully keeps and opens the package to discover its contents, but the old Japanese-style address Cape No. 7, Hengchun County, Takao Prefecture could no longer be found.
Meantime a local resort hotel inside Kenting National Park is organizing a beach concert featuring Japanese pop singer Kousuke Atari, but Aga's step father makes use of his official position to insist that the opening band be composed of locals. Tomoko, an over-the-hill Mandarin-speaking Japanese fashion model dispatched to Hengchun, is assigned the difficult task of managing this hastily assembled band, led by Aga along with six other locals of rather particular backgrounds. After a frustrating trial period Aga and Tomoko unexpectedly begin a relationship. With some assistance from hotel maid Mingchu, Tomoko helps Aga find Kojima Tomoko, the rightful recipient of the seven love letters. Aga then returns to the beach resort and performs a highly successful concert with this local band and Kousuke Atari.
This movie is mainly about 7 very different personalities gathering together so as to perform as a band to prove that the Hengchun County still has talented performers. Aga, the first main character is a very headstrong loner who is the lead singer of the band. He despised the other members of the band at first as he thought that their music background was not as solid as his. He then slowly opened up to the rest of the members and enjoyed the performance of the whole band. Tomoko, the second main character of the show is the manager of the band and she does not performs with the rest of the group. She nearly gave up on the band after seeing how scattered and untrained the band was. She too like Aga, slowly begin to understand the band better and enjoyed their performance at the end. Uncle Mao, the third main character of the band is the local postman. He is also the yueqinist, bassist and tambourineist in the band, close to 80 years old. Proud of having his talents with the yueqin referred to as a "National Treasure" and desperate to perform in any capacity possible. Rauma, the fourth main character of the band is the local policeman.He is Short-tempered and has the Rukai Tribe origin; guitarist in the band. Abandoned by his wife as he neglected her when he was in the Swat team. Frog, the fifth main character of the band is the worker in a local motorcycle shop and the drummer in the band. He is in love with his employer's wife even though she is married and has 3 kids. Malasun, the sixth main character of the band is an alcohol salesman of Hakka origin from nearby Baoli Village, Checheng Township. He is the bassist in the band and was introduced by Uncle Mao to join the band when his talent was discovered. Dada, the last band member of the group is a 10-year-old girl who plays piano in local church, thus she is the keyboardist in the band. These 7 people have constructed a very solid bonding between each of them as the goal of the band is to perform and do taiwan proud regardless of their job, age, sex and musical background.
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