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A generational gap widens in a family cut off from its cultural heritage.

Cast & Crew

Chia-bao Chang
Neng Chang
Chih-chen Chen
Han-wen Chen
Shu-fang Chen
Bao-te Chiang
Tung-hung Chou
Ai Hsiao
Shu-fen Hsin
Hsiang-ping Hu
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Director
Jia-hua Lao
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Lai-Yin Yang
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Xiao-ming Xu
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T'ien-wen Chu
Screenwriter
Hsiao-hsien Hou
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Chu-chu Wu
Original Music
Ping Bin Lee
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Chung-wen Lin
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  • Mar 31, 2013
    poetically filmed and touching coming of age story based on hou's family's experience coming from the mainland to taiwan during the war. at first seemingly temporary residents, they soon find themselves trapped by the communist takeover, the children as they grow enduring the deaths of their father, then their mother and eventually their old grandmother, who was always getting lost trying to find her way back to her home village. very moving in the end, marred for me only by the too sentimental music at some points
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