While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.
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Title: The Hole (1998)
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7 wins & 5 nominations.
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| Kuei-Mei Yang | ... | The Woman Downstairs | |
| Kang-sheng Lee | ... | The Man Upstairs | |
| Tien Miao | ... | A Shopper | |
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Hui-Chin Lin | ... | A Neighbor |
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Hsiang-Chu Tong | ... | The Plumber |
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Kun-huei Lin | ... | The Kid |
| Shiang-chyi Chen | ... | (voice) | |
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Daphne Han | ... | (voice) |
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Bo-Chin Wei | ... | (voice) |
| Jacques Picoux | ... | (voice) | |
| Chih-yen Yee | ... | (voice) | |
| Yi-Ching Lu | ... | (voice) (as Hsiao-Ling Lu) | |
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A strange disease starts to affect people in Taiwan just before the year 2000. The authorities order everyone to evacuate, but some tenants of an apartment building stay put, including a shop owner who lives by himself. One day, a plumber goes to the shop owner's apartment to check the pipes. The plumber drills a small hole in the floor, which comes down through the ceiling of another apartment. The hole never gets repaired, and this leads to some tension between the shop owner and the woman who lives below him. Written by Patrick Lin
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The Man Upstairs: Maybe.
The Woman Downstairs: You have to. Or else it'll never get fixed.
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Performed by Grace Chang
Originally from the film Kong zhong xiao jie (1959)
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The Woman Downstairs: Are you the tenant of apartment number 804? I'm your downstairs neighbor. The plumber will come and fix the hole this afternoon. Will you be home then?The Man Upstairs: Maybe.
The Woman Downstairs: You have to. Or else it'll never get fixed.
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Edited into 2000 vu par... Une collection internationale: Der letzte Tanz - La dernière danse (1998) See more »Soundtracks
Wo ai ka li suPerformed by Grace Chang
Originally from the film Kong zhong xiao jie (1959)
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The whole world is falling prey to a lethal disease, and rain never stops pouring down : nevertheless, in this atmosphere of nightmare, a man and a woman discover that they are neighbors, thanks to a hole in the floor of the man's apartment. They fall in love : at least, all would not have been lost. Although this wonderful film expresses the loneliness and the weakness of human being, there is also some room for hope, in the shiny singing scenes.