The subsequent history is touched on in text notes at the end of the film, which briefly outline Hatta’s death in the Philippines during World War II and his wife’s suicide soon after the Japanese surrender — she drowned herself in the reservoir her husband built rather than face repatriation to Japan. But these tragedies are secondary to the debt that Taiwan owes to the vision of a man who saw the island as a stage on which his engineering genius could be expressed.
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