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Grace Chen | ||
Shu-Fang Chen | ... | (as Shufang Chen) | |
Shu-Fen Hsin | ... | Kang So-Huen | |
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Chi-Ying Kao | ||
Lawrence Ko | ... | Mrs. Lin's son (as Ko Yu-Luen) | |
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Tien-Lu Li | ... | Grandpa (as Tian-Lu Li) |
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Ju Lin | ||
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Yang Lin | ||
Fang Mei | |||
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Mei-Feng | ||
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Chien-wen Wang | ... | Wan |
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Bi-yuan Yan | ||
Li-Yin Yang | ... | Ying |
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. In the city, A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control. Written by jck
"Another wow factor, for those we are interested in the checkered history of Taiwan, is that Hou and his scribes diligently interleave all the minutiae into its trickling plot, almost every seemingly commonplace conversation has a succinct exposition that appertains to the past or present matters: a valediction with Wan's boss reveals his horrific backstory during the wartime as a soldier; the father-son chitchat the night before Wan's draft underlines the divergence between a father's hope for his children and the unfortunate reality; during Wan's military service in Kinmen county, when a fisherman's family from mainland China is marooned on the island, the two parties respective attitudes strikingly intimate their different political slants."
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