May 01, 1985
120 min
Full-HD

Taipei Story (1985)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

Taiwan

Companies

Evergreen Film Company

Chin Tsai

Chin

Hou Hsiao-hsien

Lung

Wu Nien-jen

Chen

Lin Hsiu-Ling

A-Ling

Su-Yun Ko

Gwan

Ko I-Chen

Mr. Ke

Fan Mei

Chin's Mother

Wu Ping-nan

Chin's Father

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