Taipei Story
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Taipei Story is a 1985 film by Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang
.
The film stars Yang's fellow filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien
, and singer Tsai Chin
, who Yang subsequently married.
It is one of the earliest films of the New Taiwan Cinema.
) urgently seeking to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei
, and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung (Hou Hsiao-hsien
) 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.
The film "displays Yang's uncompromising critique of the middle-class with its dissection of its heroine's emotional fragility, vainly disguised behind the sunglasses she sports day and night. As she flees the past, her boyfriend idealistically clings to it, a Confucian rigidity toward which Yang bears still less patience."
Edward Yang
Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi .-Biography:...
.
The film stars Yang's fellow filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...
, and singer Tsai Chin
Tsai Chin (singer)
Tsai Chin is a pop and folk singer from Taiwan . She sings in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien and is known for her naturally magnetic rich vocals and witty persona.-Music career:...
, who Yang subsequently married.
It is one of the earliest films of the New Taiwan Cinema.
Synopsis
Taipei Story concerns a young woman (Tsai ChinTsai Chin (singer)
Tsai Chin is a pop and folk singer from Taiwan . She sings in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien and is known for her naturally magnetic rich vocals and witty persona.-Music career:...
) urgently seeking to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei
Taipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung (Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...
) 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.
The film "displays Yang's uncompromising critique of the middle-class with its dissection of its heroine's emotional fragility, vainly disguised behind the sunglasses she sports day and night. As she flees the past, her boyfriend idealistically clings to it, a Confucian rigidity toward which Yang bears still less patience."