World Cinema Project 2: Criterion Blu-ray review
Criterion’s World Cinema Project 2 box set opens windows on a number of unfamiliar national cinemas with an eclectic selection of six distinctive […]
Review: Taipei Story (1985)
Director: Edward Yang
Cast: Chin Tsai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wu Nien-jen, Lin Hsiu-Ling, Su-Yun Ko,
Chin Tsai
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Wu Nien-jen
Lin Hsiu-Ling
Su-Yun Ko
Plot: 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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