Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
This page was last edited on 10 August 2006, at 18:05 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...
Jakarta is the largest city and the only megacity in Indonesia, with a population of 10.70 million. As a primate city, Jakarta is nearly four times larger than the second largest city Surabaya. Jakarta's status is unique compared to other cities in Indonesia, since it is technically a province with a city management.
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
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)
In 1988, he worked as Hou Hsiao-hsien's first assistant director on A City of Sadness. In 1999, his second feature Darkness and Light was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 52nd Cannes Film Festival, and won the Grand Prix at the 12th Tokyo International Film Festival.
The country's largest city, Jakarta, is the world's second-most-populous urban area. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the eastern part of Malaysia, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and India.