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A City of Sadness (Chinese: 悲情城市; pinyin: Bēiqíng chéngshì) is a 1989 Taiwanese historical drama directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien.It tells the story of a family embroiled in the "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 and recent emigres from ...
Hou's thirteenth film, Flowers of Shanghai (1998), would see him reunite with actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai from A City of Sadness as well as Jack Kao, and was a period piece set in the elegant brothels (also known as "flower houses") of 1880s Shanghai.
Hijo Joshi (悲情城市 A City of Sadness) April 25, 1990 Soundtrack from the movie A City of Sadness: 6 Tsuki no Ishi to Chikyu no Mizu (月の石と、地球の水 The Stone of the Moon and The Water of the Earth) October 1, 1990 7 Shin Beagle-Go Tankenki (新ビーグル号探検記 New Beagle Explorational Journal) October 1, 1991
Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness, the first movie that addressed the events, won the Golden Lion at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. [47] The 2009 thriller Formosa Betrayed also relates the incident as part of the motivation behind Taiwan independence activist characters.
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The film is set in the elegant brothels of Shanghai, called Changsan Shuyu (長三書寓; "Flower Houses"), in 1884.The story is about the prostitutes in these houses, known as "shi sen" or "flower girls," who are top-notch prostitutes, depicting in great detail their relationships with the wealthy patrons, which are semi-monogamous and often last for a long period of time, and the daily ...
A City of Sadness (1989) The Dull Ice Flower (1989) No Risk, No Gain (1990) Prison on Fire II (1991) Dust of Angels (1992) Fong Sai-yuk (1993) The Great Conqueror's Concubine (1994) Gorgeous (1999) Born to Be King (2000) Feng Shui Family (2012–2014)
It became a must visit place among Japanese tourists. However, Miyazaki himself denied that Jiufen was the model city of the movie. [6] [7] The ruins of the ore refinery are prominently featured in the Korean-Taiwanese co-production The Cage (2017) by Lior Shamriz, as a liminal, demilitarized space between the fictional city states, Exalon and ...