A City of Sadness

Name: A City of Sadness
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Released: 1989
Cast: Tony Leung, Jack Kao, Shu-fen Hsin, Sung Young Chen, Wou Yi Fang

Bei qing cheng shi

by Hou Hsiao-hsien2h371989Taiwan

Recommended byBong Joon-Ho, Elia Suleiman

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A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Distributor : Carlotta Films
- Production Compagny : ERA International
- Original Music : Naoki Tachikawa
- Director : Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Sound Recorder : Duu-Chih Tu, Jinn-an Yang
- Photo Director : Hwai-en Chen
- Editing : Ching-song Liao
- Scenario : T'ien-wen Chu, Nien-Jen Wu
- Producer : Fusheng Chiu
- Executive Producer : Teng-kuei Yang
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Year of production : 1989
- French release date : 28 novembre 1990
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : Chinese

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This film is recommended by
- Joon-Ho Bong
- Elia Suleiman
This film is part of the Cinematographic movement
"The New Asian Cinemas"
See the other films of the movement

A City of Sadness

The film"s page

Credits

Technical details

Other films

By the same director

Goodbye South, Goodbye

The Puppetmaster

Dust in the Wind

From the same year

The Disenchanted

The Killer

Near Death

With the same cast

Tony Leung

In the mood for love

Happy Together

Flowers of Shanghai

Jack Kao

Goodbye South, Goodbye

Flowers of Shanghai

Millennium Mambo

Shu-fen Hsin

Dust in the Wind

The Time to Live and the Time to Die

Tian-Lu Li

Dust in the Wind

This film is recommended by

Joon-Ho Bong

Elia Suleiman

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"The New Asian Cinemas"