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The film follows the Lin family in a coastal town near Taipei, Taiwan from 1945 to 1949, the period after the end of 50 years of Japanese colonial rule and before the establishment of a government-in-exile in Taiwan by Chiang Kai-shek 's Nationalist Kuomintang forces once the Communist army captured mainland China.
Oct 6, 2023 · Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness ( 1989) was digitally restored and rereleased in theaters across Taiwan earlier this year. Running two hours and thirty-seven minutes, the melancholic art-house film shows in painstaking detail the dissolution of a Taiwanese family prompted by political regime change following World War II.
A City of Sadness. Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s loose trilogy of films on Taiwan’s modern history started with this dark family saga, set in the years after Japan’s colonial rule ended in 1945. All the sons in the Lin family have trouble, none more than Wenqing (Tony Leung), an idealistic deaf-mute.
Oct 21, 1989 · A City of Sadness: Directed by Hsiao-Hsien Hou. With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen, Jack Kao. The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
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- Drama, History
- Hsiao-Hsien Hou
- 1989-10-21
Oct 2, 2014 · A City of Sadness. By Richard Brody. October 2, 2014. This vastly ambitious drama about political strife in Taiwan distills a crucial historical period—from the island’s liberation from Japan,...
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The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror", mainland China's political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s. Hou Hsiao-hsien. Director. Wu Nien-jen. Writer. Chu Tien-wen. Writer. Reviews. Discussions.
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A City of Sadness remains one of Hou’s most formally inventive films, utilizing text onscreen, voiceover and a variety of languages. Made in the wake of the lifting of martial law on the island, A City of Sadness is both an important act of remembrance and a landmark of world cinema.
