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The Island That All Flow By

2016 Taiwanese film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ22774403 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Island That All Flow By (also known as The Island of River Flow) is a 2016 Taiwanese television film. It stars Ivy Yin, Cheng Jen-shuo and Andrew Chen. Filming began on January 18, 2016. The film premiered on CTV and CTi Entertainment on April 29, 2016.

Synopsis

The film depicts the story between toll station worker Lin Chia-wen (Ivy Yin) and truck driver Wang Chih-hao (Cheng Jen-shuo). As Lin faces losing her job and her rebellious son Fu Yen-chao (Andrew Chen), how would she deal with all the problems?

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Island That All Flow By” is 2016 Taiwanese film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Island, Flow and Taiwanese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-04-29. For this dossier, Island, Flow and Taiwanese is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “2016 Taiwanese film” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22774403. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Island That All Flow By” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.