In Our Time
光陰的故事 (original)
Made one year before the better-known omnibus film The Sandwich Man, In Our Time is the work that first announced the coming of the New Taiwan Cinema. Consisting of four segments, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, and dealing with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood. Yang’s made his cinematic debut with the second segment, “Expectations,” the story of an adolescent girl in the 1960s whose life is given a jolt by the arrival of a slightly older male student as a lodger in her house. Taken as a whole, In Our Time announces the ambition of the New Taiwan Cinema: to eschew studio-bound escapism and melodrama in favor of a hard-hitting cinema grounded in everyday life. (Harvard Film Archive)
Starring Sylvia Chang, An-ni Shih, Lee Lichun, Emily Y. Chang, Li Kuo-hsiu, Wang Qiguang, Vega Tsai, Sun Yadong, Zhang Yingzhen
Watch "In Our Time" on Kanopy released in 1982. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.