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The film follows the Lin family in a coastal town near Taipei, Taiwan from 1945 to 1949, the period after the end of 50 years of Japanese colonial rule and before the establishment of a government-in-exile in Taiwan by Chiang Kai-shek 's Nationalist Kuomintang forces once the Communist army captured mainland China.
Oct 21, 1989 · A City of Sadness: Directed by Hsiao-Hsien Hou. With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen, Jack Kao. The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
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- Drama, History
- Hsiao-Hsien Hou
- 1989-10-21
Bar owner Wen-heung (Chen Sown-yung), the eldest brother, falls foul of local gangsters, Wen-sun disappears, and Wen-leung, scarred by his experiences in the war, ends up in an insane asylum.
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- Artificial Eye Film
- Hsiao-Hsien Hou
- Drama
Oct 6, 2023 · Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989) was digitally restored and rereleased in theaters across Taiwan earlier this year. Running two hours and thirty-seven minutes, the melancholic art-house film shows in painstaking detail the dissolution of a Taiwanese family prompted by political regime change following World War II.
Aug 23, 2019 · Share this article. The first Chinese-language film to ever win the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion award, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness is the story of three brothers during Taiwan’s “White Terror” period following World War II, when the island was under martial law. The film is a powerful, timeless piece of art.
Movies. A City of Sadness. By Richard Brody. October 2, 2014. This vastly ambitious drama about political strife in Taiwan distills a crucial historical period—from the island’s liberation...
Aug 29, 2010 · A City of Sadness remains one of Hou’s most formally inventive films, utilizing text onscreen, voiceover and a variety of languages. Made in the wake of the lifting of martial law on the island, A City of Sadness is both an important act of remembrance and a landmark of world cinema.
