Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Script: Chu Tien-wen
Cinematographer: Chen Kun-hou
Editing: Liao Ching-song
Settings: Kim Yoo-jun
Music: Edward Yang
Cast: Niu Cheng-tse, Lin Hsiu-ling, To Tsung-hua, Chang Shih
Production: Evergreen Film Company
Year: 1983
35 mm, Colour, 104 min
OV Mandarin with Fench Subtitles
Unreleased
Grand Prize at Nantes' Festival des 3 Continents 1983
With kind support of Taipei's representative Office in France
Feng Kui is a peaceful fishermen village in the islands of Penghu where three young boys live : Ah-ching, Ah-jung and Kuo-tzu. They are convinced they killed a man in a fight and leave the island in a boat for the big city of Kaohsiung. Despite a disappointing meeting with an urban crook and the cold welcome from their family members, they are still willing to discover the city. They decide to stay back and work in a factory in the daytime, while they live their youth to the full at night.
"My first intention was in fact to make a film about teenagers. It has probably something to do with my own youth." Hou Hsiao-hsien