Chinese Version

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The Sandwich Man (Taiwan)

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Tragicomedies of three low-class families

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Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast: Chen Bozheng   Yang Liyin   Cui Fusheng   Jin Ding   Jiang Xia   Zhuo Shengli

Footage: 102min

Year: 1983 

It contains three short films.

The Sandwich Man: Kunshu is a young uneducated man. He hangs advertising boards of cinema posters on both sides of his body and parades the streets, dressed as a clown. As he returns home, Kunshu's young son does not recognize him without his clown make-up and begins to cry. Kunshu realizes that he must put on his make-up and become the "sandwich man".

Vicki's Hat: Wang Wuhsiung, discharged from national service, takes up a job as a salesman and is sent to coastal town to sell cheap Japanese-made pressure cookers. There, he meets a young girl, Vicki, who is unusually mature for her age. Vicki always wears her school hat, with the brim almost edging down on her eyebrows. This makes Wuhsiung curious. Meanwhile, Wuhsiung's colleague, Li Tsaifa, receives a message from his wife saying that she has had a miscarriage and wants Tsaifa to return home. But An accident with the cookers occurs......

The Taste of Apples: One morning as poor A Fa goes to work, he is hit by a jeep driven by an American army officer and breaks his legs. He is taken to the American military hospital. His wife , children and friends find A Fa is enjoying his incapacitation in the luxurious hospital and envy A Fa's lucky break. A Fa tells his wife and children to taste some American apples presented to him as a gift. The whole family tastes these luxurious fruits from paradise.

Works of the same director£º

The Time to Live and the Time to Die

Good Men, Good Women

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