Taipei Story (1985)2h00
Drama
Director Edward Yang (8.1 avg)
Also directed Yi Yi, A Brighter Summer Day, Terrorizers, and 10 more
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung 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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Cast
- Tsai Chin
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Wu Nien-jen
Lin Hsiu-Ling
Ko Su-yun
Ko I-chen
Mei Fang
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