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Film · 10 connectionsA 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.
Directed byEdward Yang
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Same director
1991 · 237 min · Crime · Drama · Romance
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Shared cast
1983 · 98 min · Drama
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.
Same director
2000 · 174 min · Drama
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
Same director
1986 · 109 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller
An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.
Shared cast
1985 · 136 min · Drama
An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China.
Same director
1996 · 121 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama
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.
Strong story similarity
1994 · 106 min · Crime · Drama
In Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
Shared cast
1984 · 93 min · Drama
A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.
Strong story similarity
1993 · 139 min · Drama
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Strong story similarity
1991 · 105 min · Comedy · Drama
Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.
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