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Original Title: 麻將
Director: Edward Yang
Country: Taiwan
Language: English, Mandarin with English subtitles
Runtime: 121 min
Rating: M18

Awards

Best Supporting Actor (Wang Chi-tsan)
1996 GOLDEN HORSE FILM FESTIVAL

Alfred Bauer Award – Honourable Mention
1996 BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Best Asian Director
1996 SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Synopsis

“The core behind this story is for the characters to confront the existential question of life and death. While you begin to ask questions, all pretences and self-assurance are shattered. Just like the crucial confrontation between the characters in the film, life loses its meaning without confrontation. And hope is actually built upon something very simple.” —Edward Yang

Red Fish, Lun-lun, Little Buddha, and Hong Kong are a goofy quadrant of swindlers with a dream of striking it rich. They plan to deceive the French girl Marthe and sell her to a brothel, but unexpected events derail their plans. Mahjong, the second part of the New Taipei Trilogy, continues with the comedic style established in A Confucian Confusion while retaining Edward Yang’s astute observations on conflicts among generations, social classes, and communities, a treatise on the manipulative tactics baked into neoliberal consumerism.

Adapted original text from © Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute

This screening is part of the programme Retrospective: Edward Yang. For more screenings, please click here.

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