Taiwanese music video and commercial director Lai Kuo-An has established quite the extensive career collaborating with the best Taiwanese cinema has to offer. Now, for the first time in his career, Lai Kuo-An grabs the reins as a full-feature length director with “A Fish Out of Water,” a project so confoundedly ambiguous, frustration overwhelms the film’s intrinsic poignancy and its breathtaking touch of sentimentality.

A festering memory torments the mind of Yi-An, a young boy who insists his parents help him find his…well, past parents, who allegedly resided alongside a small fishing village by the sea.

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