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The Rice Dumpling Vendors (1969)

The Rice Dumpling Vendors poster
Original title
燒肉粽
Directed by
Hsin Chi
Genre
drama
Country
Taiwan
Runtime
1h 23m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family making and selling rice dumplings in 1960s Taiwan gets entangled in a scandal after an indecent exposure incident. The story follows how the public shame and legal trouble affect their lives.

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What happens

《燒肉粽》(英語:The Rice Dumpling Vendor)是一部1969年的黑白台語電影,由台灣導演辛奇所執導,陽明、金玫、金塗、戴佩珊、張武仁、素珠主演。本片原名《脫褲風波》,發想自台灣社會新聞。公視於2020年推出新創電影《4X相識》系列短片,其中一部《燒肉粽2019》即是延續原作的續集。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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