Country: Taiwan
Year: 1994
Duration: 125'
Taipei in the 90's, a city made up of intense human relationships, full of changes and opportunities. There are at least 500 kinds of "trendy" happenings in the streets and attaching to any one of these trends will allow one to find the value of "living". In a matter of two and half days, a group of young people try to chase after their own dreams and desires, interact in unusual coincidences, create love and hate and unfortunate events. Some went to heaven, some went to hell and some happily and surprisingly discovered that they had become decent and independent people.
"This film is perhaps an attempt to make public the laboratory these long and agonizing experiments of a cosmetic surgery called modernization. There is no other case more than today's Taipei. By following the lives of a dozen or so of its loosely related citizens, through a chain of eve... place within 3 day span, this comedy witnesses how these people's lives are permanently changed as soon as this ultimate confrontation can no longer be avoided." (Edward Yang).
Biography
film director
Edward Yang
Edward Yang was born in 1947 in Shanghai, China. Both of his parents worked for the government as civil servants, and they relocated to Taipei after the civil war with the Chinese Communists in 1949. He graduated from National Chiao-Tung University with bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1969, and went on to take a master's degree (specializing Computer Design) at the University of Florida in 1972. He then decided to pursue his interest in cinema at the University of Southern California, but dropped out after only one semester. He worked as a computer designer at the University of Washington in Seattle for seven years, and then returned to Taipei in 1981 to begin a new career as a filmmaker.
FILMOGRAFIA
Fuping (Floating Weeds, TV, 1981), Zhiwang (Expectations, TV 1982), Haitan de yitian (That Day, on the Beach, 1983), Qingmei zhuma (Taipei Story, 1985), Kongbu fenzi (The Terroriser, 1986), Gulungjie shaonian sharen shijian (A Brighter Summer Day, 1991), Duli shidai (A Confucian Confusion, 1994).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, sceneggiatura e dialoghi: Edward Yang.
Director of photography: Arthur Wong, Zhang Zhan, Li Longyu, Hong Wuxiu.
Art director: Ernest Guan, Yao Reizhong, Edward Yang, Tsai Chin.
Editor: Chen Bowen.
Music: Li Datao.
Cast and characters: Chen Xianggi (Oigi), Ni Shujun (Molly), Wang Weiming (Ming), Wang Zongzheng (Akeem), Richie Li (Feng).
Production company: Atom Films and Theatre, 12 Lane 350, Guang Fu South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, tel. +886-2-7737557, fax +886-2-7524916.
Foreign sales agent: Warner Bros, 4000, Warner Boulevard, Burbank CA 91522, USA, tel. +1-818-9546000, fax +1-818-9546570.
Director of photography: Arthur Wong, Zhang Zhan, Li Longyu, Hong Wuxiu.
Art director: Ernest Guan, Yao Reizhong, Edward Yang, Tsai Chin.
Editor: Chen Bowen.
Music: Li Datao.
Cast and characters: Chen Xianggi (Oigi), Ni Shujun (Molly), Wang Weiming (Ming), Wang Zongzheng (Akeem), Richie Li (Feng).
Production company: Atom Films and Theatre, 12 Lane 350, Guang Fu South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, tel. +886-2-7737557, fax +886-2-7524916.
Foreign sales agent: Warner Bros, 4000, Warner Boulevard, Burbank CA 91522, USA, tel. +1-818-9546000, fax +1-818-9546570.
