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Di 36 ge gu shi

  • 2010
  • 1h 22m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
686
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Di 36 ge gu shi (2010)
What you are willing to give up for exchange to fulfill your dreams?

Doris’s Café is a homey space where people could relax and enjoy the smoothing afternoon sun and daydreaming. The aroma of coffee and home-baked desserts fills the air. The café is meant to be as elegant as its owner, Doris, but has been turned upside down by her sister, Josie. Ignoring Doris’s protest, Josie starts exchanging goods with costumers in the shop. Objects of various kinds begin to accumulate; discarded by their previous owners, they prove to be treasures in the eyes of others. The activity of swapping goods upstages Doris’s coffee-making and becomes the biggest attraction of the shop. 

One day a man walks in by chance. He loves brownie with espresso and that happens to be DorisÂ’s favourite combination as well. He brings 35 bars of soaps from 35 different cities in the hope of trading them for something special. Every time he comes in he orders a cup of coffee and tells a story of one of the soaps. These exotic tales fill DorisÂ’s mind with beautiful images and she materialises them in her paintings.

In the end, Doris is willing to swap her heart for these enchanting tales - she longs to see these cities with her own eyesÂ…During the process of this exchange, what exactly does the man get from the soaps on which his memories are engraved?
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What are you willing to give up in exchange for fulfilling your dreams?What are you willing to give up in exchange for fulfilling your dreams?What are you willing to give up in exchange for fulfilling your dreams?

  • Director
    • Ya-chuan Hsiao
  • Writer
    • Ya-chuan Hsiao
  • Stars
    • Gwei Lun-Mei
    • Han Chang
    • Zaizai Lin
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    686
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    • Director
      • Ya-chuan Hsiao
    • Writer
      • Ya-chuan Hsiao
    • Stars
      • Gwei Lun-Mei
      • Han Chang
      • Zaizai Lin
    • 4User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 2 nominations

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    Gwei Lun-Mei
    Gwei Lun-Mei
    • Doris
    • (as Lun-Mei Kwei)
    Han Chang
    Han Chang
    • Chou Chun-Ching
    Zaizai Lin
    Zaizai Lin
    • Joise
    Kôsuke Atari
    Kôsuke Atari
    • Japanese guest
    Orange Pa
    Orange Pa
    • Sonia
    Yuli Ma
    • Mother
    Kenny Chang
    • Neighborhood leader's son
    Steven Tam
    • Ma-Zai
    David Chang
    • Hugo
    Chun-chieh Lee
    • Lin Tung-Ching
    Chia-Hua Chung
    • Narrator
    Kuo-Huang Chien
    • Decoration Worker
    Yueh-Nu Lin
    • Decoration Worker
    Shuan-Ming Huang
    • Decoration Worker
    Chun-Shang Lee
    • Decoration Worker
    Ming-Chang Lee
    • Decoration Worker
    Tsuang-Ming Yu
    • Decoration Worker
    Yao-hua Chen
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    • Director
      • Ya-chuan Hsiao
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      • Ya-chuan Hsiao
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    1/10
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    What a horrible and pretentious movie. The narrative with a woman's voice is absolutely terrible. The dialog, the acting and the screenplay are all nothing but a joke. I never understood why all the Taiwanese screenplay writers, directors and the actors never grew out of the immaturity and pretentiousness. Most of the Taiwanese movies are either trapped in the adolescent retrospection, puppy love, memories of the elementary, junior high and high school days, or the laughable delinquent gangster genre crap. I can't even find an actor who's really talented enough to play a role like what a realistic person should behave. The forever poorly patched and unnaturally manufactured dialog simply made all the actors to act worse and exaggeratedly awkward. No matter how they tried to make a barely watchable movie, it always gave you an impression of immature and more feminine feeling. There's no way to keep me from impatience to most of the Taiwanese movies whatsoever. No, I am not particularly discriminating against the Taiwanese movies, but a viewer who watches all kinds of movies from so many different countries on a daily basis, but why Taiwanese movies always let me down and made me lose patience every time and decided to quit within 5 to 10 minutes; 15 to 20 minutes was a miracle, albeit in the middle or approaching the end.
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    • Release date
      • May 14, 2010 (Taiwan)
    • Country of origin
      • Taiwan
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Official site (Taiwan)
    • Language
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • Taipei Exchanges
    • Filming locations
      • Taipei City, Taiwan
    • Production company
      • Brick Image Team
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $98,451
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby

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