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Soon after Japan relinquishes control of Taiwan in 1945, the Lin brothers face hardships from the changing culture. Bar owner Wen-heung, the eldest brother, falls foul of local gangsters, Wen-sun disappears, and Wen-leung, scarred by his experiences in the war, ends up in an insane asylum. Deaf-mute photographer Wen-ching, the youngest brother, decides to make a stand and fight the Kuomintang government from China that is assuming power.Movie details
Title : A City of SadnessRelease : 1989-09-04
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 159
Company : ERA International, 3-H Films
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Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chan Chung-Yung, Hsin Shu-Fen, Wu Nien-Jen, Jack Kao, Tsai Chen-Nan, Kelly Ko,
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A City of Sadness is a 1989 Taiwanese historical drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. It tells the story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s, during which thousands of Taiwanese were rounded up, shot, and/or sent to prison. The film was the first to deal openly with the KMT's authoritarian misdeeds after its 1945 takeover of Taiwan, which had been restored to
In 1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness, the first film to touch on the 228 Incident, a taboo subject in Taiwan, became a big hit in the theaters. As a result Jioufen, where the film was set, revived due to the film's popularity.
Category People & Blogs; Song 悲情城市; Artist S.E.N.S. Album Sound.Earth.Nature.Spirit vol.SPIRIT; Licensed to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. (on behalf of (P)1990 Sony ...
A City of Sadness compassionately articulates the suppressed, silent despair of a people repeatedly victimised as they search for inclusion and cultural identification.
A City of Sadness revisits a painful episode in recent Taiwanese history, creating an elliptical and impressionistic picture of Chiang Kai-shek's takeover of the island after the defeat of his Kuomintang army by Mao Zedong.
By focusing on the personal and subtle, A City of Sadness conveys the disillusionment and despair of its subject’s victims far more effectively than if it devoted itself to scenes of cartoonish bad guys firing into anonymous crowds.
A City of Sadness is the first part of director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s trilogy on Taiwanese history; the other two parts are The Puppetmaster (Ximeng rensheng, 1993) and Good Men, Good Women (Haonan haonü, 1995).
A City Of Sadness opens with a credit sequence-shot of total darkness as the solemn voice of Emperor Hirohito is heard over a radio broadcast announcing the unconditional surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945. The setting is then faintly illuminated by the warm glow of candles to reveal an anxious Taiwanese household that is preparing for the imminent birth of a child in the midst of a power failure.
A CITY OF SADNESS is the beautiful, massive expression Visconti, Kurosawa, Pontecorvo, Bertolucci, and Zhang spent their careers trying for but never achieved. Hou is less artful than any of them, and therefore more likely to produce art…
In 1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness, the first film to touch on the 228 Incident, a taboo subject in Taiwan, became a big hit in the theaters. As a result Jioufen, where the film was set, revived due to the film's popularity.
Category People & Blogs; Song 悲情城市; Artist S.E.N.S. Album Sound.Earth.Nature.Spirit vol.SPIRIT; Licensed to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. (on behalf of (P)1990 Sony ...
A City of Sadness compassionately articulates the suppressed, silent despair of a people repeatedly victimised as they search for inclusion and cultural identification.
A City of Sadness revisits a painful episode in recent Taiwanese history, creating an elliptical and impressionistic picture of Chiang Kai-shek's takeover of the island after the defeat of his Kuomintang army by Mao Zedong.
By focusing on the personal and subtle, A City of Sadness conveys the disillusionment and despair of its subject’s victims far more effectively than if it devoted itself to scenes of cartoonish bad guys firing into anonymous crowds.
A City of Sadness is the first part of director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s trilogy on Taiwanese history; the other two parts are The Puppetmaster (Ximeng rensheng, 1993) and Good Men, Good Women (Haonan haonü, 1995).
A City Of Sadness opens with a credit sequence-shot of total darkness as the solemn voice of Emperor Hirohito is heard over a radio broadcast announcing the unconditional surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945. The setting is then faintly illuminated by the warm glow of candles to reveal an anxious Taiwanese household that is preparing for the imminent birth of a child in the midst of a power failure.
A CITY OF SADNESS is the beautiful, massive expression Visconti, Kurosawa, Pontecorvo, Bertolucci, and Zhang spent their careers trying for but never achieved. Hou is less artful than any of them, and therefore more likely to produce art…
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