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A Drifting Life

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The film, with a half-documentary style, offers a picture of the people lived in the village and their lives in the earlier 50's Taiwan women-mourned for their sorrowful lives for being a wife and a mother. Women have to be obedient to their father & mother-in-law; women have to nurse their children. However, men-must be a "man". Instead of living in a stable life, he would rather go after a vagabond existence, pursue love outside his hometown, and release himself for freedom, even he lost his wife. An extraordinary film portrayed three generations of women's lives in Taiwan.

Starring
Lee Kang-sheng, Lin Cheng-sheng, Jing Tseng, Lin Cheng-sheng, Tu Duu-chih, Shih-huang Chen, Wang Yu-wen, Tang Shiang-Chu, Vicky Wei, Daw-ming Lee, Cheng-Ping Chao

Director
Lin Cheng-sheng

Producer
Daw-ming Lee

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A Drifting Life

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The film, with a half-documentary style, offers a picture of the people lived in the village and their lives in the earlier 50's Taiwan women-mourned for their sorrowful lives for being a wife and a mother. Women have to be obedient to their father & mother-in-law; women have to nurse their children. However, men-must be a "man". Instead of living in a stable life, he would rather go after a vagabond existence, pursue love outside his hometown, and release himself for freedom, even he lost his wife. An extraordinary film portrayed three generations of women's lives in Taiwan.

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Released
1996
Runtime
1 hr 59 min