Mahjong
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Directed by Edward Yang • 1996 • Taiwan
Starring Tang Tsung-sheng, Chang Chen, Virginie Ledoyen
Edward Yang’s follow-up to A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION is another dizzying comedy set in a globalized Taipei, but with a darker, more caustic edge. Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager (Virginie Ledoyen) and a sensitive young local (Lawrence Ko) who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle. By turns brutal, shocking, tender, and bitingly funny, MAHJONG is a dazzling vision of a multicultural Taipei where nearly every relationship has a price and newfound prosperity comes at the expense of the human soul.
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