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Taipei Story
Directed by Edward Yang
1985, Taiwan, 110m
Edward Yang’s second feature stars Hou Hsiao-hsien (who cowrote the
script and mortgaged his house to fund the production) as a former
baseball player who has come home to manage the family textile business,
and Tsai Chin as his property-developer girlfriend. “The two main
characters represent the past and the future of Taipei,” said Yang. “I
tried to bring enough controversial questions onto the screen, so that
viewers would ask themselves about their own lives.” Taipei Story
is early evidence of Olivier Assayas’s assessment of Yang, who died far
too young, as “the great Chinese filmmaker of modernity.”  A World
Cinema Project release. Restored by The Film Foundation’s World
Cinema Project at Cineteca di Bologna/L’immagine Ritrovata laboratory in
association with the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique and Hou
Hsiao-hsien.