A City of Sadness(悲情城市)
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Hong Kong, Taiwan · 1989
2h 39m
Director Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hsin Shu-Fen, Chan Chung-Yung, Jack Kao
Genre Adventure
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The film follows the Lin family who lives in a coastal town near Taipei from 1945 to 1949. The Lin family sons are swept up one by one in the aftermath of the end of Japanese colonial rule and the gradual retreat of the Kuomintang troops to Taiwan.
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