2 Movies Starring Giong Lim

The Puppetmaster

The Puppetmaster

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-12-08

Languages:

Mandarin, Min Nan, Japanese

Countries:

Taiwan

Runtime:

142 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (1060 Reviews)

Director:

Hsiao-hsien Hou

Cast:

Writer:

T'ien-wen Chu

Tian-Lu Li (story)

Nien-Jen Wu

Fullplot:

In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joines a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers. During World War II the Japanese rulers of Taiwan use the traditional Chinese puppet theatre for their war propaganda. Only after the war street theatres start playing again.

Good Men, Good Women

Good Men, Good Women

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-12-09

Languages:

Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Min Nan

Countries:

Japan, Taiwan

Runtime:

108 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (726 Reviews)

Director:

Hsiao-hsien Hou

Cast:

Writer:

Bi-Yu Chiang (novel)

T'ien-wen Chu

Bo-Chow Lan (novel)

Fullplot:

Intended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan began with Beiqing Chengshi (1989), this film reveals the story through three levels: a film within a film as well as the past and present as linked by a young woman, Liang Ching. She is being persecuted by an anonymous man who calls her repeatedly but does not speak. He has stolen her diary and faxes her pages daily. Liang is also rehearsing for a new film that is due to go into production soon. The film, entitled Haonan Haonu, is about a couple Chiang Bi-yu and Chung Hao-tung who returns to China to participate in the anti-Japanese movement in China in the 1940s and are arrested as communists when they go back to Taiwan.

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