A Time to Live, a Time to Die Page #4

Synopsis: This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker's own boyhood. Like many of their compatriots, Hou's family moved from the mainland to Taiwan in 1948 and was unable ever to return. The film focuses on the widening generation gap in a family cut off from its cultural heritage.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Hsiao-Hsien Hou
  8 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
1985
138 min
125 Views


A cat walked in

And jumped across the dead body

The dead body sat up then

So when you're looking after a

dead body, You can never let a cat in

The captain in my army once said

When they were fighting the Japanese

When they were fighting the Japanese

What?

When they were fighting the Japanese

A lot of people were killed

One day, a man died in the army

is dead body also sat up

after a cat jumped acros

The body even chased people

Chased people?

He hugged whomever he saw

Someone who knew this kind of thing

and gave him something to hug

He lied down when he

got the thing to hug

Don't know why

Some people say there might be a

kind of electricity in the cats

Yin

Might be Yin

Weird

There are a lot of these weird stuffs

"Ah-chu, go take your bath"

I already did

"Then Ah-hsiao, you go"

Fen-ming!

What?

He's playing dumb

He said he's a street peddler

and doesn't earn much

"Come on, his business is good"

What'll we do? Let's corner him!

Right! Corner him!

Right!

"When he leaves, we corner him"

Let's do it this way

Ah-shui,

you go over there with Ah-hou

There! OK!

Le-gu, go to the end of the road

Let me see the one with pictures

I'm going home

No more business today

"Ah-shui, what the hell!"

Can't even stop a motorcycle?

So what's the use of being fat?

What the hell are you standing

there for? Let's go!

Let's go!

Thank you!

Thank you! That time he fell

from the roof

His legs had different length

I didn't know what to do

I almost sent him to

the Chinese martial place

Fortunately I ran into you

"Otherwise,

the child would have suffered"

His brother's home

Ah-hsiao, come

This is Mr. Liu

How are you?

"Huilan, Mr. Liu is leaving"

Goodbye

Watch your steps

Goodbye

You have to wash it first

don't have to behave like

that even if you don't like

"Anyway, I wrote to Fangmei

and we both agreed"

not to pay attention to him

It was written in the Bible, all the men who

aren't married have the right to court girls

"Mom, someone's here"

Mr. Liu

Grandma

I met her under the tall tree.

She's lost

So I brought her home

I've paid for the rickshaw

Thank you

Guavas

Yes. He's of class 5.

"Look, he pasted his little

cheating notes here"

Look how orderly the whole thing is

Imagine how much time and energy

was spent on such an endeavor

"If only that time could be put

into your study,"

"study more history, geography,

wouldn't that be nice?"

You're not stupid

Why did you do such a stupid thing

"He thinks he's smart, that's why"

Let go! Give it to me!

There's nothing!

"Think you're big, huh?"

Why did you beat him?

I heard you're from Red Mountain

What about Red Mountain?

Talking back?

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