Taipei Story

Taipei Story 1985

青梅竹马 qīngméizhúmǎ

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.

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3.45 Beginner Director Edward Yang 🍅 100%

Cast

Tsai Chin Tsai Chin Chin Hou Hsiao-hsien Hou Hsiao-hsien Lung Wu Nien-jen Wu Nien-jen Chen Lin Hsiu-Ling Lin Hsiu-Ling A-Ling Su-Yun Ko Su-Yun Ko Gwan Ko I-chen Ko I-chen Mr. Ke Mei Fang Mei Fang Chin's Mother Wu Ping-nan Wu Ping-nan Chin's Father Yang Li-yin Yang Li-yin Qin Grace Chen Grace Chen Mrs. Mei

Vocabulary

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了 了 le (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) HSK 1
的 的 de of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute); (used to form a nominal expression); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); also pr. [dì] or [di] in poetry and songs HSK 1
阿 阿 Ā abbr. for country names that begin with: Algeria, Afghanistan etc Interjection