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A City of Sadness
Directed by
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Not Rated
1989
2h 38m
Drama
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History
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7.8
100%
90%
7.5
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The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
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Cast of A City of Sadness
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Wen-Ching
Hsin Shu-Fen
Wu Kuan Mei / Hinome
Chan Chung-Yung
Wen-Heung
Jack Kao
Wen Leung
Tai Bo
Ah Jia
Li Tian-Lu
Ah Lu
Grace Chen Shu-Fang
Meidai
Wu Nien-jen
Mr. Wu / Writer
Tsai Chen-Nan
Singer
King Shih-Chieh
Mr. Huang
Su-Yun Ko
Sister-in-law
Wou Yi Fang
Wu Kuan Rong / Hinoiei
Chi-Ying Kao
Shopkeeper
Ho Ai-Yun
Concubine
Huang Chien-ru
Ah Xue
Ju Lin
Jin Quan
Lih-Ching Lin
Sister-in-law
Ching Lu
Wu's Father
Ikuyo Nakamura
Shizuko Ogawa
Mei Fang
Wu's Mother
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A City of Sadness Ratings & Reviews
World Socialist Web Site
David Walsh
Hou's film, which follows the Lin family's story, is an ambitious attempt to dissolve history into dramatic and poetic terms.
Cinema Escapist
Anthony Kao
Watching 'A City of Sadness' will give you a feel for all the different ways that people, even to this day, disagree about how to tell the story of Taiwan's past.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The movie conveys the director's intensely personal struggle at the crossroads of large-scale history and private memory; with understatedly bitter irony, he depicts the birth of a nation at the price of a family's dissolution.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
A City of Sadness is a great film, one that will be watched as long as there are people who care about the movies as an art.
House Next Door
Glenn Heath Jr.
A cinematic behemoth, something grand, incomplete, and sweeping.
New York Times
Caryn James
It is worth the long wait for the resonance of 'A City of Sadness to emerge.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Beautiful family saga by the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
An ambitiously conceived, sometimes frustratingly elliptical family chronicle that shows one family's experience immediately following the Japanese occupation of the nation.
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