Culture Talk | 最能了解台灣的台灣電影：悲情城市 (’A City of Sadness,’ one of the best movies to learn about Taiwan) | Booming cities after movie or TV production

Summary

Hey y’all! We’re thrilled to introduce to you the first Taiwanese movie to win the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, “A City of Sadness” (悲情城市, 1989). The historical drama takes viewers on a journey to dig deeper into Taiwanese history. Besides where the movie was based, namely Jiufen (九份), today’s episode also covers some other Taiwanese as well as Japanese cities that boomed after movie or TV production. A complete list of the names of these cities and the movie/drama production that contributed to their growth is down below.

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🎥 Reference videos & podcast episodes
● A City of Joyousness 不再悲情的城市: A Day Trip to Jiufen 九份小旅行 | https://youtu.be/J7L6suMb9FE
● TTC 15: [Season 2] Making comparisons in Japanese and Chinese is easy – learn with us! | Four iconic Japanese and Taiwanese writers you must know | https://wp.me/pd8dgj-5L
● TTC 16: [Season 2] Colloquial ways of using で（それで）in conversation / Life events and divination in Japan and Taiwan | https://wp.me/pd8dgj-65

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● BGM: Cold Ears-Come Inside Mix by J. Lang (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/djlang59/59577 Ft: Stefan Kartenberg & Nickolas Nikolic, Mindmapthat

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Movies/Dramas and Cities We Mentioned

JAPAN

• Spirited Away/千と千尋の神隠し_{(せんとちひろのかみかくし)}(Anime, 2001)
  • 愛媛県松山市道後温泉本館_{(えひめけんまつやましどうごおんせんほんかん)}
• Your Name/君の名は_{(きみのなは)} (Movie, 2016)
  • 岐阜県飛騨市_{(ぎふけんひだし)}
• 北の国から_{(きたのくにから)} (TV drama, 1981 – 2002)
  • 北海道富良野市_(ふらの)
  • 北海道美瑛町_(びえい)

TAIWAN

• A City of Sadness/悲情城市 _{(bēi qíng chéng shì)} (Movie, 1989)
  • 新北市瑞芳區九份 _{(xīn běi shì ruì fāng qū jiǔ fèn)}
• Life of Pi (Movie, 2012)
  • 臺中水湳機場(Taichung Shuinan Airport) _{(tái zhōng shǐ nán jī chǎng)}
  • 墾丁國家公園白沙灣(Kenting) _{(kěn dīng guó jiā gōng yuán bái shā wān)}
  • 屏東港口白榕園(White Banyan Park) _{(píng dōng gǎng kǒu bái róng yuán)}
    
• Lucy (Movie, 2014)
  • 大稻埕 _{(dà dào chéng)}

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