1987 1h 31m Hou Hsiao-hsien

Daughter of the Nile

Name: Daughter of the Nile
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1987
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Jack Kao, Li Tian-Lu, Tsui Fu-Sheng, Hsin Shu-Fen

★ 7.0 IMDb

Drama Crime

Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.

Writer Chu Tʻien-wen

Cast Jack Kao, Li Tian-Lu, Tsui Fu-Sheng, Hsin Shu-Fen

DP Chen Hwai-En

Essays and Criticism

On Hou Hsiao-hsien

A Force Unto Himself [on Hou Hsiao-hsien] by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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