1985 | Taiwan | Fiction

Tongnian wangshi (The Time to Live and the Time to Die)

  • Mandarin English 137 mins
  • Director | Hou Hsiao-hsien
  • Writer | Chu Ti'en-wen, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wu Nien-jen
  • Producer | Chih de Hsu Chung

STATUS: Released

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In 1947, when he was still a baby, Ah-ha and his family left China for Taiwan. They first settled near Taipei, then moved to the south of the island where the climate was milder for the father, who suffered from asthma. Pampered by his grandmother, little Ah-ha grew up in a family that was soon struck by illness: from the mischievous little boy he was at ten years old, he turns into a taciturn and rebellious teenager...

migration family childhood illness asthma grandmother upbringing
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