Taipei Story (1984)
- Original title
- 青梅竹馬
- Directed by
- Edward Yang
- Genre
- drama film, romance film
- Country
- Taiwan
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 136 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.
How it feels
A man and a woman who have known each other since childhood drift apart as their city modernizes. He clings to the past while she looks to the future.
melancholicslow-burnrealisticcontemplativebittersweetgroundedunderstatedwistfulrestrained
What happens
Taipei Story (Chinese: 青梅竹馬) is a 1985 Taiwanese drama film co-written and directed by Edward Yang. It stars Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Chin and follows the grinding relationship of Ah-lung and Ah-chen, who have known each other since childhood in Taipei. It is doomed to fail because Ah-lung cannot forget about the past while Ah-chen is eager to embrace the future as Taipei undergoes modernization and globalization. Taipei Story is one of the representative films of the New Taiwanese Cinema. It won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 38th Locarno Film Festival in 1985. In the United States, Janus Films gave a limited release of the film's 4K restoration, done by the World Cinema Project, on March 17, 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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