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

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.

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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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