The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi)

Directed by
Edward Yang
Starring
Cora Miao, Li-Chun Lee, Shih-Chieh King
Duration
107 min.
Year
1986

In Taipei, three couples cross paths and interact in spite of themselves. A photographer and his girlfriend; a delinquent and her accomplice; a novelist and her husband, who works in a hospital. This is Edward Yang's third feature film, and the central part of a sort of trilogy (with Taipei Story dating from 1985, and Mahjong, filmed in 1996) that observes Taiwan's transition to modernity and the effects of this change on individuals.

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