Mahjong

Majiang

A crime caper revolving around three inept youths with dreams of making it big.

  • Director

    Edward Yang

  • With

    Tang Tsung-sheng, Wu Nien-jen, Wang Po-sen

  • Taiwan 1996. 121min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles

The hopes of change expressed by characters in Yang’s earlier films are soured by rampant consumerism and a society consumed by self-interest in the second part of the director’s New Taipei trilogy. Red Fish, Lun-lun, Little Buddha and Hong Kong are goofball swindlers with dreams of making it big. However, just as Red Fish is progressing with his attempt to dupe foreign visitors, a problem closer to home begins to cause problems for him.