num_pages: 96
description: This text introduces the Western audience to the richness of New Taiwanese Cinema. It revisits a painful episode in Taiwanese history, creating an elliptical and impressionistic picture of Chiang Kai-shek's takeover of the island after the defeat of his Kuomintang army by Mao Zedong.
language: English
title: A City of Sadness
titlecomplete: A City of Sadness
genres: Film
ratings_count: 19
series: BFI Film Classics
publisher: British Film Institute