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Bei qing cheng shi (1989)
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2 February 1990 (Netherlands)
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(Credited cast)| Sung Young Chen | |||
| Wou Yi Fang | ... | Hinoiei | |
| Nakamura Ikuyo | ... | Shizuko | |
| Jack Kao | ... | Wen Leung | |
| Tony Leung Chiu Wai | |||
| Tianlu Li | |||
| Ikuyo Nakamura | ... | Shisuqo | |
| Chen-Nan Tsai | |||
| Shufen Xin |
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A previous poster described this film as a Taiwanese Godfather, but better. Indeed, this film has a lot similarities to godfather, in which the most notable is the condensation of an entire nation into the life of one single family. Even though I never really come to love other Hou's films, City of Sadness is a flawless epic that truthfully depict an era that is forgotten by most of my generation. I have heard those stories from my paternal grandparents, who are like people portrait in the film, grass root Taiwanese. I have also heard stories from my maternal grandparents, who are the late comers from mainland China. The entire different perspectives surprised me that in such a small nation, mistrust is still profoundly rooted and transmitted via generations. City of Sadness portraits this image so hauntingly and yet with beautiful and quiet transcendence seeing the turmoil through the eyes of the deaf and mute son of the Lin family. Taiwan, the city of sadness, is eternally sorrowful because of its rootlessness, which until today, still runs in my blood.