Taipei Story

A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.

Drama · Released on 1985-05-01

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lateen watched this on 2026-01-02

Really great slow movie about people’s different responses to living in their pasts.

I think it perfectly encapsulates the feeling in adulthood where people you know sort of unceremoniously coming back in your life, briefly catching up, realizing you’re both different people after spending time together, then leaving the same way they came.

This movie also continues the trend of stories about people being homesick for their adolescence. I can’t offhandedly think of a Western movie like that, but I feel like I can list so many East Asian movies like it, which I think is interesting.

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