Allez au contenu, Allez à la navigation, Allez à la recherche, Change language
Partenaires :
Home > Festival Archives > Selections > Fiche Film
XING FU JIN XING QU
Synopsis
Even when the world is falling apart there remains something beautiful: youth.A-yu is the teenage daughter of a merchant who runs a fish-ball business. She has one passion in life: the theatre. A-jin is a young musician who studied composing in Japan, where he fell in love with a Japanese girl whom he followed to Shanghai. He returns to Taiwan. He keeps to himself and becomes inseparable from his guitar. A-yu and A-jin meet and fall in love, but A-yu is under great pressure from her father to marry a doctor's son which would guarantee her an affluent future. It's 1945 and Taiwan is under Japanese occupation and the allied forces are bombing Taipei. As part of the population evacuates the city, the lovers are separated but continue to write to one and other. When A-yu and A-jin meet again the Kuomentang nationalist party are in power in Taiwan. A-yu's father has planned her marriage to the doctor's son and the approaching date has been set: the 28th of February.
LIN Chen-Sheng
Credits
- TSAI Chao-Yi - Set Designer
- LIN Chen-Sheng - Director
- KO Su-ching - Screenplay
- TSAI Chen-hui - Cinematography
- CHEN Hsiao-jing - Film Editor
- HU Ju-song - Film Editor
Actors
The Official Selection 1999
Un Certain Regard
- AS BODAS DE DEUS
- AWAY WITH WORDS
- BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
- BERESINA ODER DIE LETZTEN TAGE DER SCHWEIZ
- BOOTLEG FILM
- EL AKHAR
- GARAGE OLIMPO
- HAREM SUARE
- IF I GIVE YOU MY HUMBLENESS, DON'T TAKE AWAY MY PRIDE
- JUDY BERLIN
- LA GENESE
- LES PASSAGERS
- MARANA SIMHASANAM
- NADIA ET LES HIPPOPOTAMES
- PEAU NEUVE
- RATCATCHER
- SICILIA!
- SO CLOSE TO PARADISE
- THE PERSONNALS
- THE SHADE
- THE WINSLOW BOY
- VANAPRASTHAM
- XING FU JIN XING QU