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Stories Set in Taipei
In a rainy basin backed by mountains, Taipei is Taiwan's northern capital of night markets, bath towns and office towers. Japanese colonial building plus the 1949 arrival of mainland officials and soldiers crowded new villages beside old streets, giving its stories a layered family-apartment feel. Yi Yi and Eat Drink Man Woman find quiet drama in that close-quarters living. Open Taipei on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Taipei on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Taipei
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Browse 6 books, 33 movies and 1 game set in Taipei.
Lucy
A woman accidentally caught in a dark deal turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Yi Yi
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money his mother is in a coma his wife suffers a spiritual crisis…
The Sadness
A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel…
Eat Drink Man Woman
A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters all of whom are unattached. Soon each of the daughters encounter new men in…
Terrorizers
An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer a rebellious teenager and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.
Taipei Story
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…
Millennium Mambo
The beautiful Vicky drifts through her empty life in the neon-lit Taipei maintaining a pointless relationship with her loser DJ boyfriend Hao-Hao and an unsatisfying career as a nightclub hostess. As her romance becomes…
Dust in the Wind
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant…
Rebels of the Neon God
Defying his parents disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze a young hoodlum and their relationship is a confused mixture…
Vive L'Amour
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: Mei a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung her current lover; and Hsiao-kang who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as…
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