Taipei Story

(1985)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 142 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1985

Runtime: 120 мин

Country: Taiwan

Director: 楊德昌

Cast: Цай Цинь, 侯孝賢, 吳念真, 林秀玲, Кэ Су Юнь, 柯一正, 梅芳, 吳炳南, 楊麗音, 陳淑芳

Plot

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.

Lung, a former member of the national Little League team and now operator of an old-style fabric business, is never able to shake a longing for his past glory. One day, he runs into a forme teammate who is now a struggling cab driver. The two talk about old times and they are struck by a sense of loss. Lung is living with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a westernized professional woman who grew up in a traditional family. Although they live together, Ah-chin is always weary of Lung's past liason with another girl. After an argument, Ah-chin tris to find solace by hanging out with her sister's friends, a group of westernized, hedonistic youths.