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Daughter of the Nile is a taiwanais film of genre Drama directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien released in USA on 30 september 1988 with Jack Kao
Daughter of the Nile (1987)
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Add to a movie listDaughter of the Nile (Ni luo he nyu er) (I kori tou Neilou) is a 1987 Feature film by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
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Lin Hsiao-yang (Lin Yang), tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. Her mother and older brother are dead. Her father (Fu Sheng Tsui) works out of town. It's up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her pre-teen sister, who has already begun to steal, and a brother (Jack Kao) who is a burglar and gang member.Actors
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, 1h52Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Jack Kao, Annie Yi, Vicky Wei
Rating71%
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, 1h48Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Annie Yi, Jack Kao, Vicky Wei
Rating70%
The film depicts the real-life story of Chiang Bi-Yu (Annie Shizuka Inoh). In the 1940s, she and her newlywed husband, Chung Hao-Tung (Giong Lim), head to mainland China to join the anti-Japanese resistance. During the war, she is forced to give her baby for adoption. After the war they return to Taiwan, as Chung is to distribute a communist paper called "The Enlightenment". However, as the Korean War deepens, Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang regime intensifies the White Terror and Chung is eventually executed.
Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
, 2h10Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Annie Yi, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Carina Lau, Michiko Hada, Jack Kao, Michelle Reis
Rating72%
In four elegant brothels, called "Flower Houses", in fin-de-siècle 19th-century Shanghai (Qing dynasty), several affairs are described. Events presumably take place in 1884, a year named in one of the scenes. The action involves four men who live for pleasure, and takes place mostly in the light of oil lamps, giving the film a claustrophobic feel. Preparation and consumption of opium and tea occur more than once, and dishes of food are served and hot towels prepared in several scenes.
Millennium Mambo (2001)
, 1h59Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Doze Niu, Pauline Chan
Rating69%
The main character, Vicky, portrayed by actress Shu Qi narrates from 2011 about her life 10 years earlier. She describes her youth and story of her changing life at the beginning of the new millennium. She works as a hostess in a trendy bar. Vicky is torn between two men, Hao-Hao and Jack, and her journeys display the parallel journey of the psyche and how one girl deals with her fleeting youth.
A City of Sadness (1989)
, 2h37Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jack Kao, Wu Nien-jen
Rating77%
The film depicts the Lin family's experiences during the February 28 Incident. The eldest brother Wen-heung (Sung Young Chen) is murdered by a Shanghai mafia boss, the middle brother Wen-leung (Jack Kao) suffers a traumatic brain injury in a KMT jailhouse, and the youngest brother Wen-ching (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), who is both deaf and mute, hopes to flee to the mountains with his friend to fight in the anti-KMT resistance movement. By the end of the film even the photographer Wen-ching has been arrested by the authorities, leaving only his wife to tell the story of the family's destruction.
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, 2h12Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
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Rating68%
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Dust in the Wind (1986)
, 1h49Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Romance
Rating75%
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, 2h5Directed by Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Political films
Actors Gong Li, Li Baotian
Rating80%
The film is set in 1920s China during the Warlord Era, years before the Chinese Civil War. Nineteen-year-old Songlian (Sònglián, played by Gong Li), whose father has recently died and left the family bankrupt, marries into the wealthy Chen family, becoming the fourth wife or rather the third concubine or, as she is referred to, the Fourth Mistress (Sì Tàitai) of the household. Arriving at the palatial abode, she is at first treated like royalty, receiving sensuous foot massages and brightly lit red lanterns, as well as a visit from her husband, Master Chen (Ma Jingwu), the master of the house, whose face is never clearly shown.
A Summer at Grandpa's (1984)
, 1h33Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama
Actors Edward Yang (楊德昌)
Rating75%
Tung-tung et sa petite sœur Pi-yun partent pour quelques semaines chez leur grand-père, leur mère étant très malade. À travers les vacances des enfants, lumineuses et gaies, à travers leurs jeux anodins, la mort et des drames insoupconnés jaillissent dans le monde des adultes.
, 2h18Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama
Actors Tien Feng
Rating74%
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