Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Scripte: Chu Tien-wen
Cinematographer: Chen Hwai-en
Editing: Liao Ching-song
Art Director: Liu Li-tsai
Music: Chen Hwai-en, Chiang Hsiao-wen
Cast: Annie Shizuka Inoh, Lim Giong, Jack Kao, Vicky Wei, King Jieh-wen, Tsai Chen-nan
Production: 3H Films
Distribution:
Ciné classic
6 rue de l’école de médecine
75006 Paris
France
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Fax: 0033 1.46.34.82.53
Mail: [email protected]
Year: 1995
35 mm, Colour, 108 min
OV Mandarin with French Subtitles
Cannes Film Festival 1995
In Taipei, Liang Ching, a young actress, is persecuted by an unknown man who keeps faxing pages of her diary which has been stolen from her. She is starting the shooing of a film entitled "Good Men Good Women" relating the true story of a couple who left Taiwan in the late thirties to join the guerrilla in China and fight the Japanese occupation, and got arrested while coming back to the island, on a charge of political subversion. Liang Ching identifies with the woman of the Chinese resistance. A kind of osmosis links the two women in a subtle to and fro between 1995 and 1943, between colour and black and white, between personal destiny and collective memory.