Free Film Screening: Growing Up 小畢的故事 - Taiwan

Thu Mar 27 2025 at 02:30 pm to 04:00 pm UTC-05:00

Culture Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office | Westmont

Asian Pop-Up Cinema
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Societal tension in 1950s Taiwan is seen through a child’s eyes in this pioneering work of New Taiwan Cinema
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Taiwan | Drama | 1983 | 95 minutes

In Mandarin and Taiwanese w/ Chinese and English Subtitles


Director: Chen Kun-hou

Screenwriter: Hou hsiao-hsien, Chu tien-wen, Ding yah-min, Hsu Shu-chen

Cast: Doze Niu, Tuo Tsung-hua, Jang Chuen-Fang, Yen Cheng-kuo

Film Source: Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute


Admission Free. RSVP is required.


SYNOPSIS:

Set in the coastal town of Tamsui, this story follows Xiaobi, a young troublemaker who shows off a remarkable penchant for mischief, whether it be at school, while playing, or at home. His story is set against societal turmoil in 1950s Taiwan.

To adapt screenwriter Chu Tien-wen’s novella into film, Chen Kun-hou and co-writer Hou Hsiao-hsien reportedly had to take out loans and sell their properties for funding. The result not only won multiple awards at the Golden Horse Awards (including Best Film), it launched the renowned New Taiwan Cinema movement that put Taiwanese cinema on the world map.


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Chen Kun-hou, Director

Chen Kun-hou (陳坤厚) is a veteran cinematographer, who started his career in the 1960s. He won his first best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards in 1978 for He Never Gives Up (汪洋中的一條船), directed by Lee Hsing (李行). In the early 1980s he began to direct his own films in collaboration with Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢). After series of urban comedies, he made quite a few representative films of the Taiwan New Cinema, such as Growing Up (小畢的故事; 1983), which won him the best director award at the Golden Horse Awards, His Matramony (結婚; 1985), which won him the second best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards, and My Favorite Season (最想念的季節; 1985), and Osmanthus Alley (桂花巷; 1987). He is awarded for his life achievement in Taiwan cinema at the 60th Golden Horse Awards in 2023.


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NOTE:

Since this is an Admissions Free event with high volume of no-shows, per our venue host's suggestion, we are accepting RSVPs 50% beyond the seating capacity. Therefore your registration DOES NOT guarantee your seats inside the auditorium. Seats availability is served on a first-come-first-served basis presenting us their QR coded individual tickets or per their names. The doors will open 30 minutes for seating prior to the event ONLY. Please try to come early or on time.

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Enjoy the film!

Best,

Team Asian Pop-Up Cinema


ABOUT ASIAN POP-UP CINEMA

Presented by Sophia’s Choice, Asian Pop-Up Cinema (亞洲躍動電影展) (APUC), is an Asian film festival in Chicago, providing a platform for specially curated Asian films in their original languages with English subtitles.

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Culture Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, 55 E 63rd St., Westmont, United States

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