Taipei Story
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1985-05-01
Runtime: 120 mins
Director: Edward Yang
Spoken language: 普通话
Genres: Drama
Original title: Taipei Story
Production Companies: Evergreen Film Company
Production Countries: Taiwan
Cast
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