Screenshots
No screenshots available for this title yet.
Cinema Discovery Archive
Cinephilecentral
Curated movie catalog and metadata explorer
Continue to the security-verification page to unlock your download.
A short ad flow runs before your download starts.
IMDB ID: tt0091406
Loading TMDb metadata...

No screenshots available for this title yet.
Synopsis
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.
Chien-wen Wang
Cast
Hsin Shu-Fen
Cast
Li Tian-Lu
Cast
Mei Fang
Cast
Grace Chen
Cast
Yang Li-yin
Cast
Lawrence Ko Yu-Luen
Cast
Danny Deng
Cast
Wu Ping-nan
Cast
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Director
Wu Nien-jen
Writer
Chu Tien-Wen
Writer
The Green Ray
1986A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Popularity: 7.5

Shadows in Paradise
1986Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
Popularity: 7.3

Blue Lake Girl
1986Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.
Popularity: 6.5

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
1985A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a child.
Popularity: 7.4

Pushpaka Vimana
1987An unemployed man, who dreams of living it large, finds a rich man drunk and lying in the sewer. Things take a turn when he imprisons him and takes his identity to get a taste of his lifestyle.
Popularity: 7.2

Assa
1987A young musician falls for a mobster's young mistress.
Popularity: 6.9
The Green Ray
1986A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Popularity: 7.5

Shadows in Paradise
1986Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
Popularity: 7.3

Blue Lake Girl
1986Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.
Popularity: 6.5

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
1985A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a child.
Popularity: 7.4

Pushpaka Vimana
1987An unemployed man, who dreams of living it large, finds a rich man drunk and lying in the sewer. Things take a turn when he imprisons him and takes his identity to get a taste of his lifestyle.
Popularity: 7.2

Assa
1987A young musician falls for a mobster's young mistress.
Popularity: 6.9

Assa
1987A young musician falls for a mobster's young mistress.
Popularity: 6.9

Love Hotel
1985A call-girl named Yumi and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion.
Popularity: 6.6

Into the Night
1985Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
Popularity: 6.5