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Taipei Story (1984)

Name: Taipei Story
Director: Edward Yang
Genre: drama film, romance film
Rating: 7.6

Taipei Story is a 1985 Taiwanese drama film co-written and directed by Edward Yang. It stars Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Chin and follows the grinding relationship of Ah-lung and Ah-chen, who have known each other since childhood in Taipei. It is doomed to fail because Ah-lung cannot forget about the past while Ah-chen is eager to embrace the future as Taipei undergoes modernization and globalization. Taipei Story is…

Directed by Edward Yang · Music by Edward Yang

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That Day, on the Beach — 1983
The Terrorizers — 1986
A Brighter Summer Day — 1991
A Confucian Confusion — 1994
Mahjong — 1996
Yi Yi — 2000

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