Original Title: 浮萍
Director: Edward Yang
Country: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin with English subtitles
Runtime: 145 min
Rating: PG

Synopsis

Yue-hua moves to Taipei to pursue her dream, sharing a residence with Yin-chun and Li-ling. She works part-time and takes on modelling gigs, causing a buzz in her hometown with a magazine feature. Her boyfriend Zheng-xiong visits and urges her to return home for employment, but he leaves disappointed. Later, Yin-chun gets married, and Li-ling turns to escort services for a living. Witnessing their harsh reality, Yue-hua decides to return to her hometown only to discover Zheng-xiong has already married.

In 1981, Edward Yang returned to Taiwan from the US. After his screenwriting work on The Winter of 1905, he met Sylvia Chang and was invited to direct Floating Weeds, an episode of the TV series Eleven Women. The series helped to introduce new directors and was seen as a starting point for Taiwan New Cinema. Floating Weeds showcased Yang’s visual storytelling potential, marking the beginning of his directing career and leading to his subsequent work, In Our Time.

Adapted original text from © Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute

Important Notice:

This title was a TV drama shot on analog video and broadcast on TTV in 1981. The material is in SD quality and transferred from the only video tape deposited by Ms. Peng Kai-li. There are several segments with obvious video dropouts.

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