Director
Sylvia Chang
Composer
Bobbi Dar
Cast
Rene Liu, Marj Dusay, Tsung-Hua Tou
Edition 1996
104'
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1995
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Mandarin, English, Cantonese
New York City. Giang-wei and Siao-yu, both illegal immigrants; he a student and worker in a fish market; she a seamstress in a sweatshop. Giang-wei saves money to purchase Siao-yu a
fake American husband, whom she can divorce in five years with citizenship in hand - but the
going brokered rate is still too high. Enter Mario, an aging former radical journalist, debilitated
by a gambling additictin. Fate brings Giang-wei to him, and soon he is married to Siao-yu.
After clashes at the beginning of their relationship, the two forge an unlikely friendship that
Giang-wei can neither understand nor tolerate.
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Credits
Directors
Sylvia Chang
Composers
Bobbi Dar
Cast
Rene Liu, Marj Dusay, Tsung-Hua Tou
Scenario
Sylvia Chang, Ang Lee, Geling Yan
Director of Photography
Joe DeSalvo
Editors
Fung Mei
Producers
Dolly Hall, Li-Kong Hsu, Ang Lee
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Dialogue
Mandarin, English, Cantonese
Countries of production
Taiwan
Screenplay based on
"The Girl Xiao Yu" (Geling Yan)
Year
1995