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A City of Sadness

Name: A City of Sadness
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1989
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hsin Shu-Fen, Chan Chung-Yung, Jack Kao, Tai Bo

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.

1989 · Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien · 158 min · Drama · History · 12 frames

Crew

Written by: Wu Nien-jen, Chu Tien-Wen
Cinematography: Chen Hwai-en
Produced by: Yau Fook-Sang

Cast

Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Wen-Ching
Hsin Shu-Fen as Wu Kuan Mei / Hinome
Chan Chung-Yung as Wen-Heung
Jack Kao as Wen Leung
Tai Bo as Ah Jia
Li Tian-Lu as Ah Lu
Grace Chen Shu-Fang as Meidai
Wu Nien-jen as Mr. Wu
Tsai Chen-nan as Singer
King Shih-chieh as Mr. Huang

Production

Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese
Studios: 3-H Films, Era International

More by Hou Hsiao-hsien

Millennium Mambo — 2001
Three Times — 2005
The Assassin — 2015
Flowers of Shanghai — 1998
Dust in the Wind — 1986
The Time to Live and the Time to Die — 1985

On this film

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