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A City of Sadness (Chinese: 悲情城市; pinyin: Bēiqíng chéngshì) is a 1989 Taiwanese historical drama directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien.
Oct 21, 1989 · A City of Sadness: Directed by Hsiao-Hsien Hou. With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen, Jack Kao. 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.
Aug 23, 2019 · The first Chinese-language film to ever win the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion award, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s "A City of Sadness" is the story of three brothers during Taiwan’s “White Terror” period following World War II, when the island was under martial law.
A City of Sadness recreates the events of the 1940s where corruption was under control, and everybody could have been arrested for far-fetched accusations for bonds with guerillas or...
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Sep 4, 1989 · Runtime: 157 min. Language: Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese, Cantonese. Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan. Plot. Taiwan had been a Japanese colony for the previous 50 years until the Chinese Nationalist government began taking over the island after World War II.
Aug 29, 2010 · A City of Sadness remains one of Hou’s most formally inventive films, utilizing text onscreen, voiceover and a variety of languages. Made in the wake of the lifting of martial law on the island, A City of Sadness is both an important act of remembrance and a landmark of world cinema.
Oct 6, 2023 · Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness ( 1989) was digitally restored and rereleased in theaters across Taiwan earlier this year. Running two hours and thirty-seven minutes, the melancholic art-house film shows in painstaking detail the dissolution of a Taiwanese family prompted by political regime change following World War II.
A City of Sadness. 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. IMDb 7.8 2 h 38 min 1989. 18+. Drama · Historical.
