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Taipei Story is a taiwanais film of genre Drama directed by Edward Yang (楊德昌) with Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taipei Story (1985)
青梅竹馬, Qīngméi zhúmǎ
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Add to a movie listTaipei Story (青梅竹馬) is a 1985 film by Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang.
The film stars Yang's fellow filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien, and singer Tsai Chin, who Yang subsequently married.
It is one of the earliest films of the New Taiwan Cinema.
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Taipei Story concerns a young woman (Tsai Chin) urgently seeking to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei, and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 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.Actors
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