Feng gui lai de ren
A breakout hit for director Hou Hsiao-hsien, and his favorite from among his films, this early masterwork follows four adolescent boys from a sleepy fishing village seeking thrills in the southern port city of Kaohsiung. Leavening the buoyant situation with a stately aesthetic distance, Hou infuses the anecdotal tale with archetypical suggestion as the boys, like many Taiwanese, revel unquestioningly in Taiwan's rapid economic expansion.
Producer: Lin Jung-feng, Chang Hwa-kun. Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien. Screenwriter: Chu Tien-wen. Cinematography: Chen Kun-hou. Editor: Liao Ching-sung. Cast: Doze Niu, To Tsung-hua, Lin Hsiu-ling, Chang Shih, Yang Li-yin. 35mm, color, in Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles, 99 min.
