A City of Sadness (1989)
A City of Sadness (1989)
DVDRip | MKV | 712 x 444 | x264 @ 1555 Kbps | 158 min | 2,11 Gb
Audio: Mandarin AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs (embedded): English, Japanese
Genre: Art-house, Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 712 x 444 | x264 @ 1555 Kbps | 158 min | 2,11 Gb
Audio: Mandarin AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs (embedded): English, Japanese
Genre: Art-house, Drama
A City of Sadness is a 1989 Taiwanese drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. It tells the story of a family embroiled in the tragic "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government (KMT) after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s, during which thousands of Taiwanese were rounded up, shot, and/or sent to prison. The film was the first to deal openly with the KMT's authoritarian misdeeds after its 1945 turnover of Taiwan from Japan, and the first to depict the 228 Incident of 1947, in which thousands of people were massacred.
Rotten Tomatoes | IMDB - 8 wins
A previous poster described this film as a Taiwanese Godfather, but better. Indeed, this film has a lot similarities to godfather, in which the most notable is the condensation of an entire nation into the life of one single family. Even though I never really come to love other Hou's films, City of Sadness is a flawless epic that truthfully depict an era that is forgotten by most of my generation. I have heard those stories from my paternal grandparents, who are like people portrait in the film, grass root Taiwanese. I have also heard stories from my maternal grandparents, who are the late comers from mainland China. The entire different perspectives surprised me that in such a small nation, mistrust is still profoundly rooted and transmitted via generations. City of Sadness portraits this image so hauntingly and yet with beautiful and quiet transcendence seeing the turmoil through the eyes of the deaf and mute son of the Lin family. Taiwan, the city of sadness, is eternally sorrowful because of its rootlessness, which until today, still runs in my blood.IMDB Reviewer
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A City of Sadness (1989)
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