Taipei Story

Taipei Story is a melancholy rumination on belonging, where a woman trying to outpace the city’s relentless modernization butts against a man whose nostalgia keeps him tethered to a dead-end dealership and a stalled baseball dream. The film sidesteps sentimentality by treating both characters’ obsessions with the same cool detachment. It’s a cinematic time capsule of 1980s Taipei, carried by the director’s signature observational stillness.

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Edward Yang directed Taipei Story in 1985. See Edward Yang's full filmography, where to start with Edward Yang, or where to go after you've seen everything by Edward Yang.

Taipei Story was released in 1985 (ZH original-language production), with a runtime of 120 minutes.