Mahjong

Mahjong

1996 · 121 min · ZH · 7.6 (50 votes)
Dir. Edward Yang · Starring Lawrence Ko, Chang Chen, Tang Tsung-sheng, Virginie Ledoyen, Kaizo Hayashi, Elaine Jin Yan-Ling
ComedyDramaCrime

Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.

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A dizzying, darkly comic dive into Taipei's underbelly. Expect a whirlwind of violence, absurdity, and existential dread as characters grapple with debt and destiny in a city that never sleeps.

nihilisticchaoticcynicalabsurdistfreneticTaiwanese New Waveneo-noirdark comedygritty realismcrimefamilyfateurban decay
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gangsterdark comedytaiwantaipei