Dust in the Wind

Original title: Liàn liàn fengchén

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A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.

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7.6/10

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- 3 wins & 1 nomination

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Grace Chen

Shu-Fang Chen

Shu-Fen Hsin

Kang So-Huen

Chi-Ying Kao

Lawrence Ko

Mrs. Lin's son
(as Ko Yu-Luen)

Tien-Lu Li

Grandpa
(as Tian-Lu Li)

Ying

Director
- Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writers
- T'ien-wen Chu
- Nien-Jen Wu
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Trivia
This film is inspired by screenwriter Wu Nien-Jen's childhood memories. It is the third installment of director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's "Coming-of-Age Trilogy" that features three prominent Taiwanese screenwriters' coming-of-age stories. The other two are A Summer at Grandpa's (1984) (inspired by the coming-of-age story of Chu Tien-wen) and A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985) (inspired by the coming-of-age story of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, who is a screenwriter-turned-director).

Connections
Featured in When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang (1993)

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2/10

Dust in the broken wind.

Dust In The Wind is a 1986 Taiwanese art house drama about two adolescents who decide that they do not want to stay in their home village in order to go to junior high school and instead they make the decision to get a train to Taipei in order to look for work.

And that is basically what the film is about.

For an hour and fifty two minutes the viewer is treated to scene after scene of boring and pointless dialogue and different characters lighting up and smoking a cigarette.

The only reason I can recommend watching this film is if you are suffering from a lack of sleep as this boring film will have you drifting off to the land of nod in no time.