Film
A City of Sadness
Hong Kong · Taiwan- Age rating
- IIA
- Director
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Year
- 1989
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
Top cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Wen-Ching
Hsin Shu-Fen
Wu Kuan Mei / Hinome
Chan Chung-Yung
Wen-Heung
Jack Kao
Wen Leung
Tai Bo
Ah Jia
Li Tian-Lu
Ah Lu
Grace Chen Shu-Fang
Meidai
Wu Nien-jen
Mr. Wu
Tsai Chen-nan
Singer
King Shih-chieh
Mr. Huang
Ko Su-yun
Sister-in-law
Wou Yi Fang
Wu Kuan Rong / Hinoiei
Chi-Ying Kao
Shopkeeper
Ho Ai-Yun
Concubine
Huang Chien-ru
Ah Xue
Lih-Ching Lin
Sister-in-law
Ching Lu
Wu's Father
Ikuyo Nakamura
Shizuko Ogawa
Directed by
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Written by
Wu Nien-jen, Chu Tien-Wen
Produced by
Yau Fook-Sang