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Taipei Story

1985 · 120 min

Drama

★ 7.5

Criterion

Trailer

A 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.

Crew

Director Edward Yang
Screenplay Hou Hsiao-hsien
Screenplay Chu Tien-Wen
Screenplay Edward Yang
Director of Photography Yang Wei-han

Cast

Crew

Director — Edward Yang
Screenplay — Hou Hsiao-hsien
Screenplay — Chu Tien-Wen
Screenplay — Edward Yang
Director of Photography — Yang Wei-han

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