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Sylvia Chang

Shau neu Siao Yu (Siao yu)

Director Sylvia Chang Composer Bobbi Dar Cast Rene Liu, Marj Dusay, Tsung-Hua Tou
Edition 1996
104' - 1995 - Drama - 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