Word: sheng
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...table doing nothing for a full minute. Then he gets up, goes outside and returns to his nothingness at the table. Four minutes. And that's the last we see of him; he dies, off camera, soon after. We're then introduced to his son, Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), who sells watches in Taipei. Days after his father's death a young woman, Shiang-chyi (Chen Shiang-chyi), buys a dual-time watch from him before she leaves for Paris. Hsiao-kang is disturbed that his mother (Lu Yi-ching) has responded to her husband's death by praying...
...Quadling so I don’t go out late at night for food to the Square. Ta Sheng or the Kong...
...tell you a good story about how he got shot at." The reference is to a former director of the Taipei Office of Funeral Management (OFM) whose car window was smashed last year, presumably by a bullet. "Some of these funeral companies are run by gangsters," says Lin Liang-sheng, an OFM section chief. "But we have to keep fighting. We can't be scared...
...Tsai's What Time Is It There? takes place in Taipei and Paris. A street vendor (Lee Kang-sheng) who deals in wristwatches reluctantly sells the one he is wearing to a woman headed for France. In empathy or mourning, he soon is compelled to change all available timepieces?including huge clocks on building faCades?seven hours back, to Paris time. Shot in long takes with a static point of view and hardly any dialogue, the film may goad restless viewers to ask, not "What time is it?" but "Are we there yet?" We suggest you stick around...
...Jeff Sheng '02 is a VES concentrator in Eliot House...