Wu Nien-jen’s Typical Vibe
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Highest-ranked title
Wu Nien-jen has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Yi Yi.
Recurring themes
A Taipei family faces personal and moral uncertainty as everyday events test their relationships and sense of purpose.
Dir. Edward Yang · With Wu Nien-jen, Issey Ogata, Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.
Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien · With Chien-wen Wang, Hsin Shu-Fen, Li Tian-Lu

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hsin Shu-Fen, Chan Chung-Yung
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung 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.
Dir. Edward Yang · With Tsai Chin, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wu Nien-jen
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