★TAIWAN'S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO 97th ACADEMY AWARDS® BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM ★

60th Golden Horse Awards
Winners of Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Akio CHEN), Best Makeup & Costume Design, Best
Original Film Score, Best Supporting Actress (Eugenie Liu), Best Art Direction, Best Original Film Song

26th Taipei Film Awards — Winners of Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup &
Costume Design, Audience Choice Award

36th Tokyo International Film Festival

48th Hong Kong International Film Festival

26th Udine Far East Film Festival

23rd New York Asian Film Festival

18th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival

19th Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival

“SPACE TO QUESTIONING AND SENSITIVITY.” – ASIAN MOVIE PULSE
“REFLECTING THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN STRUGGLE” – EASTERN KICKS
“SHINES WITH EXEMPLARY ACTING AND NUANCED TAKE ON INEQUALITY” – CINEMA ESCAPIST
“REFLECTING ON HOW YOUR OWN PERSONALITY HAS CHANGED SINCE YOU WERE A CHILD” – MOVIE XCLUSIVE

▩ Synopsis
In 1989. Eleven-year-old Liao Jie and his father have been saving money, hoping thatthey will be able to buy a home of their own in three years. However, they fail to notice
that the world is rapidly changing.

The property prices have rocketed and in the blink of an eye, their savings are notenough. In frustration, Liao Jie comes to realize the harsh reality of being poor. In
contrast to his father, their landlord who people call “Old Fox” emerges as a winnerand he seems to be a better mentor to Liao Jie. Old Fox teaches Liao Jie how to survive
in society, and that is something his father has never taught him.

Nonetheless, Liao Jie ends up hurting Old Fox with what he has learned from Old Fox.On the other hand, like his father, Liao Jie is someone who always empathizes with
others, and it is this quality that stops Liao Jie from becoming another “Old Fox”.

Directed by HSIAO Ya-Chuan
Executive Producers : HOU Hsiao-Hsien, OSAKA Fumiko, Elisa Y.H. LIN

Director’s Statement
In the late 1980s, the share prices in the Taiwanese stock market soared so rapidly that they were five or six times higher. I witnessed my family becoming even poorer because my parents were not good at competing against others.

Even till now, every time my mother says goodbye to me, she says, ‘May you be successful.’ What on earth does “successful” mean? When I cannot be nice and successful at the same time, shall I fight to win even if I will hurt people, or shall I admit defeat to avoid hurting others?

I have met many people like my mother, who is thought to be “unsuccessful”. But I know the reason that they do not fight people over the things they desire is not because they are incompetent, but they want to avoid hurting people and I would like to tell a story of people like them.

Casts: BAI Run-Yin, LIU Kuan-Ting, Akio CHEN, Eugenie LIU, Mugi KADOWAKI, CHEN-Wei Huang