★ 1986 Golden Horse Awards - Best Feature Film
★ 1987 Locarno Film Festival - Silver Leopard
The marriage of Yu-feng and Li-zhong has reached a stalemate. Yu-feng, a writer, faces a creative block, while Li-zhong pins hope on a promotion. A teenage girl's prank calls become the subject of Yu-feng's award-winning novel. As their lives unravel, frustration builds like a gas tank on the verge of explosion. The film constructs multidimensional contexts through precise audiovisual deployment, depicting loneliness, deceit, and violence in modern society. The proliferating plot generates multiple meanings and liberates the freedom of film narration."
Director: Edward Yang
Cast：Cora Miao, Lee Li-chun, Wang An
About the Director Edward Yang was a Taiwanese filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a pioneer in the Taiwanese New Wave of the 1980s, alongside fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang. Yang was regarded as one of the leading filmmakers of Taiwanese cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival for his 2000 film Yi Yi. |  | |