Taipei Story

Taipei Story

1985 · 120 min · ZH · 7.5 (93 votes)
Dir. Edward Yang · Starring Tsai Chin, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wu Nien-jen, Lin Hsiu-Ling, Su-Yun Ko, Ko I-chen · Music Edward Yang
Drama

A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.

VIBE

A quiet, contemplative urban drama that captures the ache of unspoken regrets and the bittersweet feeling of paths not taken. It's a poignant look at love and loss amidst the ever-changing cityscape.

melancholicwistfulsomberintrospectiveslow-burnslice-of-lifenaturalisticcharacter-drivenurban dramaregretlost loveurban alienationmodernity vs tradition
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