A Flower in the Raining Night (1983)

Original title

看海的日子

Directed by

Wang Toon

Genre

drama film

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A prostitute in Taiwan decides to become a mother in order to reclaim her sense of humanity and dignity. The film follows her emotional journey as she works toward this goal.

melancholicslow-burngrittyemotionaldeterminedsomberhopeful

What happens

A Flower in the Raining Night is a 1983 Taiwanese film directed by Wang Toon. Adapted from the novel, Days of Watching the Sea written by Huang Chun Ming, the film portrays the journey of a prostitute who is determined to become a mother to regain her dignity as a human being. It is one of the few commercially successful films of the New Taiwan Cinema in the 1980s, in which its box office reached TWD$23,000,000, HKD$2,536,132.00 and was nominated for Best Narrative Feature in the 20th Golden Horse Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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