A City of Sadness

1989 · 158 min · dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien

A City of Sadness is a 1989 Taiwanese historical drama directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. It tells the story of the Lin family amid the political turmoil surrounding the February 28 Incident of 1947 and the emergence of the political repression that later became known as Taiwan's "White Terror". The film was the first to deal openly with the Kuomintang government's (KMT) authoritarian rule after its 1945 takeover of Taiwan following Japan's defeat in World War II, and the first to depict the February 28 Incident in Taiwanese cinema. Scholars have also regarded the film as an important work in Taiwan's ongoing engagement with the memory and legacy of the White Terror.” Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.