Good Men, Good Women

Good Men, Good Women

Infobox Film
name = Good Men, Good Women


caption = DVD cover
director = Hou Hsiao-hsien
producer =
writer = T'ien-wen Chu
narrator =
starring = Annie Shizuka Inoh Giong Lim
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Fox Lorber (US DVD)
released = flagicon|Taiwan 1995
runtime = 108 min.
country = Japan/Taiwan
language = Taiwanese
Mandarin
Japanese
Cantonese
budget =
preceded_by = The Puppetmaster
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:134802
imdb_id = 0113256

"Good Men, Good Women" (zh-cp|c=好男好女|p=Hǎonán hǎonǚ) is a 1995 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, starring Annie Shizuka Inoh, 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

The film depicts the real life story of Chiang Bi-Yu (Annie Shizuka Inoh). In the 1940s, she and her newlywed husband, Chung Hao-Tung (Jack Kao), head to mainland China to join the anti-Japanese resistance. During the war, she is forced to give her baby 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 regime intensifies the White Terror and Chung is eventually executed.

Scattered throughout the film are interludes of an actress (also played Inoh) who prepares for the role of Chiang Bi-Yu, and confronts her deceased boyfriend's past.

Awards

"Good Men, Good Women" won the Golden Horse Award (1995), and was shown in the Cannes Film Festival.


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