The Terrorizers (film)
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The Terrorizers is a 1986 film by Taiwanese
filmmaker Edward Yang
.
: a young woman and the tough petty criminal gang of native Taiwanese
she hangs out with; a Mainlander doctor and his novelist wife; and a young photographer who observes the life of the city unfolding around him, in an echo of the protagonist of Michelangelo Antonioni
's Blowup
. "Famously characterized by Marxist scholar Fredric Jameson
as the postmodern film, the film was likened by Yang himself to a puzzle where the pleasure lies in rearranging a multitude of relationships between characters, spaces, and genres."
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
filmmaker Edward Yang
Edward Yang
Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi .-Biography:...
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Cast
- Cora MiaoCora MiaoCora Miao is a Chinese actress who worked predominantly in Hong Kong films. During her career she was nominated for four Hong Kong Film Awards and four Golden Horse Film Festival awards, winning one. She won Miss Photogenic award in Miss Hong Kong Pageant 1976. She is married to film director...
as Zhou Yufeng - Lichun Lee as Li Lizhong
- Shi-Jye Jin as Xiao Shen
- Bao-Ming Gu as Old Gu (A cop)
Critical reception
The Terrorizers is a part of the New Taiwan Cinema. The film concerns the coincidental interactions between three groups of people in TaipeiTaipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
: a young woman and the tough petty criminal gang of native Taiwanese
Native Taiwanese
Native Taiwanese refers to descendants of:-#people who migrated to Taiwan prior to the 1945 takeover by the Republic of China from Japanese rule; or#early Han Chinese migrants to Taiwan to the exclusion of Taiwanese Aborigines.#Taiwanese Aborigines...
she hangs out with; a Mainlander doctor and his novelist wife; and a young photographer who observes the life of the city unfolding around him, in an echo of the protagonist of Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...
's Blowup
Blowup
Blowup is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, his first English-language film.It tells of a British photographer's accidental involvement with a murder, inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story, "Las babas del diablo" or "The Devil's Drool" , translated also as Blow-Up, and by the life...
. "Famously characterized by Marxist scholar Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends—he once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organized capitalism...
as the postmodern film, the film was likened by Yang himself to a puzzle where the pleasure lies in rearranging a multitude of relationships between characters, spaces, and genres."
Awards and nominations
- 1986 Golden Horse Film Festival
- Won: Best Film
- Nominated: Best Actress – Cora Miao
- 1987 Locarno International Film FestivalLocarno International Film FestivalThe Film Festival Locarno is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. After Cannes and Venice and together with Karlovy Vary, Locarno is the Film Festival with the longest history...
- Won: Silver Leopard
- 1987 British Film InstituteBritish Film InstituteThe British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...
Awards- Won: Sutherland TrophySutherland TrophyCreated in 1958, the Sutherland Trophy was awarded annually by the British Film Institute to "the maker of the most original and imaginative [first or second feature] film introduced at the National Film Theatre during the year"...
- Won: Sutherland Trophy
- 1987 Asia-Pacific Film Festival
- Won: Best Screenplay – Edward Yang, Hsiao Yeh