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GOOD MEN, GOOD WOMEN

原題
好男好女
Original Title
Haonan Haonu (Konan Kojo)
Production Year
1995
Release Date
December 9, 1995
Running Time
108min
Genre
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Color
Color
Director
Cast
Annie Shizuka INOH(伊能静)
Chiang LIN(リン・チャン)
Jack KAO(ガオ・ジエ)

The final film in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s “Taiwan History” trilogy, following “A City of Sadness” and “The Puppetmaster.” A love story that spans across two eras.

Introduction
A young actress rehearses for a film about a 1940s couple who are persecuted in Taiwan for participating in the anti-Japanese movement in China. She is troubled by an anonymous man who has stolen her diary and faxes the pages to her everyday.
Synopsis
A young actress rehearses for a film about a 1940s couple who are persecuted in Taiwan for participating in the anti-The story takes place in modern day Taipei (1990s) and during the tumultuous “White Terror” period in the 1950s when Taiwan faced political repression by the Kuomintang government. The actress Liang Ching rehearses for her role as Chiang Bi-yu in the film “Good Men, Good Women.” One day, someone steals her diary and since then, she receives silent phone calls and copies of her diary through fax. Liang Ching starts to remember fragments of her past – the brief time she spent with Ah Wei, the image of her lover shot dead – and she realizes that she is turning into Chiang Bi-yu…