A Time to Live, a Time to Die Page #5

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


Fight back?

Was it him last time? Yes

You think you're big

Do you think he's the one you can bully?

Where does the other one live?

What are you doing?

Who? Huang Chin-shui

What are you doing?

"Good day, sir"

Grandma

What are you doing?

I'm counting my silver money

Counting silver money?

What are you counting

silver money for?

So I can use them in heaven.

I can use them in heaven.

"Grandma, come on!

We're taking pictures"

"I'm so old, why do I need to be

taken pictures?" It's OK!

Come on!

For souvenir

Come on!

Put it down

"Let's take some pictures, okay?"... OK.

Ah-hsiao!

Come on and take the pictures

Thank you

"Ah-hsiao,

come on and take some pictures"

"Grandma, you have to look that way"

Go get a chair

One more

Put it away!

Put it back!

Little crook! Do you know

what day this is today?

Put it back!

What are you doing?

Hurry up

Put it back

Come here

How dare you...

Get out

Stand here! Stand put!

Stand here!

Listen!

Do you know today is the day of

Vice President Chen's funeral?

Do you know?

Little crook! Get him! Get him!

Come back!

Little crook! Damn it!

Come back!

Come back if you dare!

Mr. Lee...

Your brother should

have been expelled

But in consideration of the fact

that he's already in his senior year

so we decided to give him 2 serious

demerits and a detention

"He's still young, right?"

We give him a chance to start anew

"The problem is that the head teacher

of his class,"

"Mr. Tao,"

doesn't want him to stay

in his class

"After discussing,"

we'll transfer him to another class

"We'll do as you say, Mr. Chen"

Please look after him for us

"Can't go on, can't go on... "

can't go on living

Life without you is darkness

Please come back

Where are you now?

The one I love

"Can't go on, can't go on... "

can't go on living

Life without you is darkness"

My mother brought this piece of jade

back from the South Seas

This ring...

My father bought it in Shanghai

for my 17th birthday

Chunying is so thin

Don't let him stay up too late

Health is the most important thing

Everything else is unreal

When I got married to your father

I didn't know his health was poor

"In our 20-year marriage,"

I served him for 20 years

"Ah-hsiao, stop singing!"

Sounds terrible!

"When I was a teacher,"

there was a colleague

We got along very well

But I didn't dare to tell my parents

I was really stupid

Did Dad know this?

Your father was a very serious man

He would come home

and started reading books

So quietly

"When I just got married to him,"

he even told me to study English

and to ask him if I had problems

"The time we were newlywed,"

your grandfather was out of work

Your father's family didn't

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