Credited cast: | |||
Chin Tsai | ... | Chin | |
Hsiao-Hsien Hou | ... | Lung | |
I-Chen Ko | |||
Su-Yun Ko | ... | Gwan | |
Nien-Jen Wu | ... | Taxi driver | |
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Hsiu-Ling Lin | ... | A-Ling |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Shu-Fang Chen | ... | Mrs. Mei | |
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Te-Nan Lai | ||
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De-ming Lyu | ||
Fang Mei | |||
Peng Sun | |||
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Nai-Chu Ting | ||
Ping-Nan Wu | |||
Li-Yin Yang | ... | Qin | |
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Shu-yao Yang |
Lung, a former member of the national Little League team and now operator of an old-style fabric business, is never able to shake a longing for his past glory. One day, he runs into a forme teammate who is now a struggling cab driver. The two talk about old times and they are struck by a sense of loss. Lung is living with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a westernized professional woman who grew up in a traditional family. Although they live together, Ah-chin is always weary of Lung's past liason with another girl. After an argument, Ah-chin tris to find solace by hanging out with her sister's friends, a group of westernized, hedonistic youths. Written by Anonymous
Taiwan is a noisy world where modernity is settling very (too) quickly under Japanese and American influences. Taipei Story depicts the life of those in the Taiwanese middle class, the so-called Asian Tigers, and the grimness and competitive struggle for survival ushered in by the economic changes in Taiwan. Its a movie about personal tragedies to the changes themselves (modernization, Westernization, globalization, technology), to the weaknesses of individuals.
Taipei Story contains a lot of "casual scenes" which holds low value to the overall story but an enormous amount to the general atmospherical feel to the film. Together with these scenes, the tranquillizing still and slow photo and let alone the slow pacing of the movie, let's us better get a grip of understanding about the life the people involved in the story.