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The Terrorizers
Why this pick
Yang’s intricately interwoven urban lives offer the same cool observation, accumulating unease, and devastating sense that private choices ripple through a whole social world.
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MOVIE1991 3h 56m TWN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Lawrence Ko
Airplane (Ji Fei)
Chang Kuo-Chu
Father
Chang Chen
Xiao Si'r
Lisa Yang
Ming
Elaine Jin Yan-Ling
Mother
Chiang Hsiu-Chiung
Middle Sister
Chuan Wang
Eldest Sister
Stephanie Lai
Youngest Sister