Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the characters can speak Japanese and some of them Mandarin. Each story encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan ,Taiwan or China, with a native of the opposite country.
Cinematography
Each city breathes differently — Tokyo's neon, Taipei's humidity, Shanghai's haze.
Acting
Ryo Kase's wordless longing in the Taipei segment is devastating.
Director
Yee Chih-yen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The three directors never met during production — each segment was shot independently with no shared creative notes, which explains the tonal whiplash some viewers love and others despise.
Released during a brief thaw in Sino-Japanese relations, the film's trilingual structure was deliberately political — a cinematic handshake that now reads as almost utopian given current tensions.
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