MAHJONG
$8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.
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The new 4K restoration was undertaken by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute with the support of Kaili Peng and Kailidoscope Pictures.
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- RELEASED IN: 1996
- 121 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: Edward Yang
ABOUT THE FILM:
In English and Mandarin with English subtitles.
A screwball farce about the manipulation and lies baked into modern prosperity, Mahjong centers on a trendy nightspot in Taipei, where Yang orchestrates the elaborate comings and goings of a raft of disparate characters, including a couple of mob enforcers (one played by YI YI’s Wu Nien-Jen, co-writer of THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH and TAIPEI STORY), an American escort service madam, and a young Frenchwoman (Virginie Ledoyen) looking for the British entrepreneur who wooed her in London. Yang’s penultimate feature is as much a wry critique of the many dark crime-comedies of its decade as it is a jaundiced love letter to late ’90s Taipei—a city where languages, classes, and ideologies collide at a dizzying rate, and the pursuit of happiness is a brutal zero-sum game.
FORMAT: DCP
DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films
COUNTRY: Taiwan
