Oct 21, 1989
159 min
Full-HD

A City of Sadness (1989)

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror", mainland China's political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.

Category

Drama History

Country

Hong Kong Taiwan

Companies

ERA International 3-H Films

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Wen-Ching

Hsin Shu-Fen

Wu Kuan Mei / Hinome

Chan Chung-Yung

Wen-Heung

Jack Kao

Wen Leung

Tai Bo

Ah Jia

Li Tian-Lu

Ah Lu

Grace Chen Shu-Fang

Meidai

Wu Nien-jen

Mr. Wu

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