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Good Men, Good Women (1995)

Good Men, Good Women poster
Original title
好男好女
Directed by
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Genre
drama film
Country
Taiwan, Japan
Runtime
1h 48m
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman spends time with a group of actors making a film about Taiwan's past. She also deals with her own hidden history and feelings about a lost lover.

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What happens

Good Men, Good Women (Chinese: 好男好女) is a 1995 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, starring Annie Yi, Lim Giong, and Jack Kao. It is the last installment in the trilogy that began with A City of Sadness (1989) and continued with The Puppetmaster (1993). Like its predecessors, it deals with the complicated issues of Taiwanese history and national identity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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