Taipei Story
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Director Edward Yang Duration Music director Edward Yang Country Taiwan | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Running time 1h 50m Language Mandarin
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Writer Chu Tien-wen , Hou Hsiao-hsien Release date 1985 Screenplay Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Chu Tien-wen Cast Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Lung), Chin Tsai (Chin), Wu Nien-jen (Taxi driver), I-Chen Ko , Lai-Yin Yang (Qin)Similar movies Related Edward Yang movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taipei Story is a 1985 Taiwanese film directed, scored, and co-written by filmmaker Edward Yang — his second full-length feature film and third overall. The film stars Yang's fellow filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien, and singer Tsai Chin, whom Yang subsequently married. It is one of the earliest films of the New Taiwanese Cinema.
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In the United States, Janus Films gave a limited release of the film's 4K restoration, done by the World Cinema Project, on March 17, 2017.
Title
The original title, 青梅竹马 "green plums and a bamboo horse", refers to Chinese plums and the childhood practice of riding a bamboo stick as a pretend horse. This idiom alludes to an 8th century poem by Li Bai, and in China it refers to a childhood sweetheart. The English title alludes to the film Tokyo Story (1953).
Plot
A young woman (Tsai Chin) urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei, and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung (Hou Hsiao-hsien) is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
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Themes
According to the Doc Film Society, the film "displays Yang's uncompromising critique of the middle-class with its dissection of its heroine's emotional fragility, vainly disguised behind the sunglasses she sports day and night. As she flees the past, her boyfriend idealistically clings to it, a Confucian rigidity toward which Yang bears still less patience."
References
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