A City of Sadness
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10/21/1989Runtime
158 minsOverview
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
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A patient, unflinching chronicle of how political terror ravages an ordinary family across decades. Hou Hsiao-hsien's formal precision transforms personal loss into collective historical reckoning.
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