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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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.

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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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