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You can stream Taipei Story (1985) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.

A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.

Can a relationship survive the collision of traditional loyalty and the relentless momentum of a modernizing city? This quiet observation of drifting souls captures the exact moment when old-world values begin to fracture under the weight of urban progress.

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