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About Love (2005)

About Love poster
Original title
恋爱地图
Directed by
Yee Chin-yen, Zhang Yibai
Genre
romance film
Country
People's Republic of China, Japan
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
15
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A film with three love stories set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. Each story follows a foreigner who meets a local person in a different city.

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What happens

About Love (Chinese: 關於愛; pinyin: Guan Yu Ai) is a 2005 film. Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the characters can speak Japanese and some of them Mandarin. Each story encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan, Taiwan or China, with a native of a different country. The film was directed by Shimoyama Ten, Yee Chin-yen, and Zhang Yibai. It was written by Haruko Nagatsu, Shen Wei, and Yee Chin-yen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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