Taipei Story
- Sun, Sep 22
- Mon, Sep 23
- Tue, Sep 24
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Edward Yang Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 1985 Language: Chinese
Starring: Chin Tsai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Lin Hsiu-Ling, Su-Yun Ko, Wu Nien-jen
Our Edward Yang Retrospective winds down with Taipei Story, the director’s 1985 drama.
A young woman (Tsai Chin) urgently seeks 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.
Yang’s second feature-length film, Taipei Story is often cited as one of the key films of New Taiwanese Cinema.