Daughter of the Nile
尼羅河女兒 (original)
Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien (The Assassin, Three Times, Flight of the Red Balloon) followed up his highly acclaimed Coming of Age trilogy of films with Daughter of the Nile, a rich and poignant drama about a young woman struggling to support her family amidst the violent and neon-soaked milieu of 1980’s Taipei.Lin (Lin Hsiao-yang) works as a waitress in a fried chicken restaurant, attends night school and pines after her brother’s friend, local gigolo Ah-sang (Fan Yang). Increasingly constrained by the casual brutality of the world around her, Lin finds escape imagining herself as the titular Daughter of the Nile, a character from her favourite manga series.Based on the personal experiences of screenwriter, Chu T’ien-wen (Millennium Mambo; Goodbye South, Goodbye; City of Sadness) Daughter of the Nile is a profoundly moving observation of marginalised youth. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film from a new 4K restoration, available for the first time on Blu-ray and DVD in a new Dual Format edition.
Starring Yang Lin, Jack Kao, Li Tian-Lu, Tsui Fu-Sheng, Hsin Shu-Fen, Grace Chen Shu-Fang, Wu Nien-Jen, LIN JU, Yu An-Shun, Sit Chi-Jing
Watch "Daughter of the Nile" from streaming services Vudu, Kanopy, Youtube and several more released in 1987. It's a drama and crime movie, and has a rating of 7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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