City of Sadness (1989)
4.0 of 5 from 52 ratings
2h 35min
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- Synopsis:
- The film tells the story of a family embroiled in the tragic "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government (KMT) 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 turnover of Taiwan from Japan, and the first to depict the 228 Incident of 1947, in which thousands of people were massacred.
- Actors:
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Shufen Xin, Sung Young Chen, Jack Kao, Wou Yi Fang, Ai-yun Ho, Nakamura Ikuyo, Tianlu Li, Ju Lin, Ikuyo Nakamura, Chen-Nan Tsai, Chang-Chiang Yang
- Directors:
- Hsiao-hsien Hou
- Writers:
- T'ien-wen Chu, Nien-Jen Wu
- Others:
- City of Sadness, HOU Hsiao Hsien
- Aka:
- Beiqing Chengshi
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- Lions on the Lido
- Countries:
- Hong Kong
- Awards:
