Taipei Story(青梅竹馬)
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Taiwan · 1985
2h 0m
Director Edward Yang
Starring Chin Tsai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wu Nien-Jen, Lin Hsiu-Ling
Genre Drama
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The film chronicles the estrangement between a washed-up baseball player working in his family’s textile business and his girlfriend, who clings to the upward mobility of her career. As the couple's dreams of marriage and emigration begin to unravel, Edward Yang’s gaze illuminates the desperation of Taiwan’s globalized modernity.
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