Buddha Bless America (Chinese: 太平天國; Pinyin: Tàipíng Tiānguó) is a 1996 Taiwanese feature film directed by Wu Nien-jen, a scriptwriter turned director.
It is a sarcastic comedy set in the early 1960s about a Sino-American joint military exercise in a small village in southern Taiwan.
The damage caused by the military exercise proved to be worse than anticipated, even ancestral graves were crushed by the tanks.
The villagers were so angry that they blamed Wen-sheng for cheating them into the deal and swarmed to the American military camp to protest but the soldiers’ gunshots chased them away.
In Chinese history, Taiping Tianguo refers to an anti-imperialist rebellion, led by Hong Xiuquan in the Qing Dynasty.
"[2] The cabbage field in the film was not a real location but a set constructed by the crew and supporting army soldiers, which took three hours to complete.