Three directors, three Huang Chun-ming stories, and one 1983 omnibus that pushed Taiwanese cinema out of studio sentimentality and into the street. Hou Hsiao-hsien leads with the title segment about a man who earns a living as a human billboard; Tseng Chuang-hsiang and Wan Jen follow with a pressure cooker and a Taipei slum family. Metrograph programs it inside Jiā: Histories of Home.
What to expect
105 minutes on DCP, from the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute, with English subtitles. Three short films play back to back rather than one continuous narrative, so the shape is closer to an anthology than a feature. The noon slot opens Metrograph's Saturday.
Good to know
- Part of Jiā: Histories of Home, running at Metrograph from September 4.
- One screening this weekend: Saturday, September 12 at noon.
- $18 general, $11 members, with assigned seating.
- Metrograph does not admit anyone more than 15 minutes after the posted start.
- Sunday brings The Rice Dumpling Vendors at 2:45 pm from the same series.
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Common questions
Who directed it?
Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tseng Chuang-hsiang and Wan Jen each directed one segment of the three-part film.
Is it subtitled?
Yes. Metrograph states that all foreign-language films include English subtitles.
How long is it?
105 minutes, screened on DCP.
What else is in the series that weekend?
Dust in the Wind on Saturday and Sunday, Rebels of the Neon God late Saturday, and The Rice Dumpling Vendors on Sunday afternoon.
