About the film:
The film is an epic story about the Jian family in Taipei, from three different perspectives: the middle-aged father NJ (Nien-Jen Wu), the young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang), and the teenage daughter, Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee). The three-hour film starts with a wedding, concludes with a funeral, and contemplates areas of human life in between.
About the film:
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, when they are due to be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners, then the townspeople struggle to accommodate them. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator.
About the film:
The film takes place in Hong Kong, in 1962. Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, rents a room in an apartment of a building on the same day as Su Li-zhen, a secretary from a shipping company. They become next-door neighbors. One day, they come to the conclusion that their spouses have been seeing each other.
