Cheng-sheng Lin

  • Cheng-sheng Lin – Ai ni ai wo AKA Betelnut Beauty (2001)

    Cheng-sheng Lin2001-2010AsianDramaTaiwan

    Betelnut Beauty is the english for 槟榔西施 (bīnláng xīshī). It refers to women selling betel nuts and cigarettes along the roads in Taiwan.
    The betelnut beauty is usually half naked, waiting for customers in a small glass-fronted kiosk. It’s a very common sight in Taiwan.
    Betel nuts (binlang in chinese) is popular among a certain population (truck drivers, taxi drivers, construction workers…). You chew it, spit the red juice and it makes you somehow stoned.

    This film is, in my opinion, a very average drama, not the best film from director Cheng-sheng Lin. But its background shows a realistic image of Taipei’s street life.Read More »

  • Cheng-sheng Lin – Fang lang AKA Sweet Degeneration (1997)

    Cheng-sheng Lin1991-2000ArthouseDramaTaiwan

    Quote:
    Chuen-Sheng is a young man fresh out of military service with dreams of making it as a musician. His sister Ah Fen, unhappily married, nurses a secret incestuous passion for him. While Chuen-Sheng steals money from his father and squanders it on roach-infested hotel rooms and cheap hookers, Ah Fen decides she can’t face her life any more and runs away.Read More »

  • Cheng-sheng Lin – Mei li zai chang ge AKA Murmur Of Youth (1997)

    1991-2000Cheng-sheng LinDramaQueer Cinema(s)Taiwan

    Quote:
    Recent Taiwanese cinema has almost had a monopoly on the kind of angst that permeated so many European art films of the 1960’s. The anomie that envelops Lin Cheng-sheng’s ”Murmur of Youth” in a mist of melancholy has everything to do with the collision of traditional and modern values in a boom economy. The film follows two college-age girls, both named Mei-li, from different backgrounds, who end up working side by side as ticket takers in a movie theater in a teeming shopping arcade.Read More »

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