Taipei Story
May 01 1985
•2h 0m
•Drama
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
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Chin Tsai
Chin
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Lung
Wu Nien-jen
Chen
Lin Hsiu-Ling
A-Ling
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