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1995 Taiwanese film by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Good Men, Good Women
(
Chinese
:
好男好女
) is a 1995
Taiwanese
film directed by
Hou Hsiao-hsien
, starring
Annie Yi
,
Lim Giong
, and
Jack Kao
. It is the last installment in the
trilogy
that began with
A City of Sadness
(1989) and continued with
The Puppetmaster
(1993). Like its predecessors, it deals with the complicated issues of
Taiwanese history
and national identity.
Plot
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The film depicts the real-life story of Chiang Bi-yu (
Annie Yi
). In the 1940s, she and her newlywed husband, Chung Hao-tung (
Lim Giong
), head to
mainland China
to join the anti-Japanese resistance. During the war, she is forced to give her baby up for adoption. After the war they return to Taiwan, as Chung is to distribute a
communist
paper called
The Enlightenment
. However, as the
Korean War
deepens,
Chiang Kai-shek
's
Kuomintang
government intensifies the
White Terror
and Chung is executed.
The film consists of three intermingling storylines and scattered throughout the film are interludes of an actress (also played by Yi) who prepares for the role of Chiang Bi-yu, and also confronts her deceased boyfriend's past.
Cast
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Awards
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Good Men, Good Women
won the
Golden Horse Award
for best director (1995), and was shown in the
Cannes Film Festival
.
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References
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Silbergeld, Jerome (2004). Hitchcock With a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press.
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