Kenny Bee trades pop stardom for poetic melancholy in Lee Hsing's criminally overlooked gem.
Taiwanese movie
Direction
Lee Hsing's restraint builds emotion through absence, not excess.
Cinematography
Taipei streets rendered in soft, humid grays.
Director
Lee Hsing
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Taiwan's 1980s cinematic shift toward urban realism, preceding the Hou Hsiao-hsien revolution by mere years.
Lee Hsing was already a four-decade veteran when he made this; critics dismissed it as minor, but it's become a cult discovery.
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