A City of Sadness
悲情城市
Overview
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.
- Production
- ERA International, 3-H Films
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Writers
- Wu Nien-jen,Chu Tien-Wen
- Producers
- Yau Fook-Sang
- Cinematography
- Chen Hwai-en
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badelf
November 15, 2021
This film, even at 20 years old, may be the strongest cinematic statement I've ever seen against country "boundaries" and "imperialism". Between the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese people lived in Taiwan under Japanese rule for two generations. By WW II, they were living alongside the Japanese and the remaining (that's another story) indigenous peoples more or less peacefully. The Taiwanese, after two generations, were neither Chinese, nor Japanese, nor indigenous. When Japan lost t…