Completed - Drama - 108 minutes
NEW 4K RESTORATIONThe final film in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s “Taiwan History” trilogy, following “A City of Sadness” and “The Puppetmaster.” A love story that spans across two eras. Official Selection - 48th Cannes Film Festival
Year of production : 1995 Director(s) : Hsiao-Hsien HOU Cast : Annie Shizuka INOH, Jack GAO
A young actress rehearses for a film about a 1940s couple who are persecuted in Taiwan for participating in the anti-The story takes place in modern day Taipei (1990s) and during the tumultuous “White Terror” period in the 1950s when Taiwan faced political repression by the Kuomintang government. The actress Liang Ching rehearses for her role as Chiang Bi-yu in the film “Good Men, Good Women.” One day, someone steals her diary and since then, she receives silent phone calls and copies of her diary through fax. Liang Ching starts to remember fragments of her past – the brief time she spent with Ah Wei, the image of her lover shot dead – and she realizes that she is turning into Chiang Bi-yu…
Country(ies) : TAIWAN