Taipei Story

Taipei Story
Theatrical Poster
Chinese	青梅竹馬
Mandarin	Qīngméizhúmǎ
Literally	green plums and a bamboo horse
Directed by	Edward Yang
Written by	Chu Tien-wen Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring	Hou Hsiao-hsien Tsai Chin
Music by	Edward Yang
Release date	1985 (1985)
Country	Taiwan
Language	Mandarin Taiwanese

Taipei Story is a 1985 film by Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang. The film stars Yang's fellow filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien, and singer Tsai Chin, who Yang subsequently married. It is one of the earliest films of the New Taiwanese Cinema.

A young woman (Tsai Chin) urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei, and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 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.

According to the Doc Film Society, the film "displays Yang's uncompromising critique of the middle-class with its dissection of its heroine's emotional fragility, vainly disguised behind the sunglasses she sports day and night. As she flees the past, her boyfriend idealistically clings to it, a Confucian rigidity toward which Yang bears still less patience."