A City of Sadness
- imdbID:
- tt0096908
- Director:
- Hsiao-Hsien Hou
- Writer:
- T'ien-wen Chu,Nien-Jen Wu
- Year:
- 1989
- Genre:
- Comedy, Drama, History
- Country:
- Taiwan
Categories
- 🎓 Cinema Experts
- 💎 Cinema Gems
- ⏳ Cinema History
- 🌍 Countries
- 🎭 Genres
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🏷️ Tags
- 📁 1940s
- 📁 228 incident
- 📁 ambiguity
- 📁 authoritarian regime
- 📁 based on true story
- 📁 begins with text
- 📁 boyfriend girlfriend relationship
- 📁 brother brother relationship
- 📁 brother sister relationship
- 📁 brotherhood
- 📁 businessman
- 📁 cantonese language spoken
- 📁 china
- 📁 chinese language spoken
- 📁 chinese politics
- 📁 colonial legacy
- 📁 comedy
- 📁 communication breakdown
- 📁 communist
- 📁 contemplative cinema
- 📁 corruption
- 📁 deaf man
- 📁 deaf mute man
- 📁 deafness
- 📁 depression
- 📁 doctor
- 📁 drama
- 📁 family relationships
- 📁 family saga
- 📁 father son relationship
- 📁 four brothers
- 📁 friend
- 📁 friendship
- 📁 gang
- 📁 gangstr
- 📁 german folk song
- 📁 historical drama
- 📁 history
- 📁 hospital scene
- 📁 husband wife relationship
- 📁 hypothetical chinese invasion of taiwan
- 📁 identity crisis
- 📁 incarceration
- 📁 japanese flag
- 📁 japanese language spoken
- 📁 japanese occupation of taiwan
- 📁 keelung taiwan
- 📁 kimono
- 📁 kimono as gift
- 📁 knife fight
- 📁 kuomintang
- 📁 long take
- 📁 made in taiwan
- 📁 male female relationship
- 📁 mandarin language spoken
- 📁 marriage
- 📁 martial law
- 📁 melancholy
- 📁 memory
- 📁 minimalism
- 📁 note
- 📁 oppression
- 📁 part of trilogy
- 📁 Person
- 📁 phonograph record
- 📁 photographer
- 📁 photography
- 📁 political repression
- 📁 political uprising
- 📁 politics
- 📁 post world war two
- 📁 postwar
- 📁 radical
- 📁 reference to a childhood accident
- 📁 reference to shanghai
- 📁 reference to the philippines
- 📁 resistance
- 📁 slow cinema
- 📁 subgenre
- 📁 tainan city taiwan
- 📁 taipei taiwan
- 📁 taiwan
- 📁 taiwanese
- 📁 taiwanese family
- 📁 taiwanese flag
- 📁 taiwanese hokkien
- 📁 taiwanese language spoken
- 📁 taiwanese man
- 📁 taiwanese new wave
- 📁 taiwanese politics
- 📁 tragedy
- 📁 trauma
- 📁 using the japanese flag for clothing
- 📁 violence
- 📁 white terror
- 📁 witness
- 📁 year 1945
- 📁 year 1946
- 📁 year 1947
- 📁 year 1948
- 📁 year 1949