Good Men, Good Women

Good Men, Good Women is a 1995 film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, starring Annie Shizuka Inoh, Lim Giong and Jack Kao. It is the last installment in the trilogy that began with A City of Sadness and continued with . Like its predecessors, it deals with the complicated issues of Taiwanese history and National Identity.

Plot

The film depicts the real life story of Chiang Bi-Yu . In the 1940s, she and her newlywed husband, Chung Hao-Tung , head to mainland China to join the anti-Japanese resistance. During the war, she is forced to give her baby for adoption. After the war they return to Taiwan, as Chung is to distribute a communist paper called "The Enlightenment". However, as the Korean War deepens, Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang regime intensifies the White Terror and Chung is eventually executed.

Scattered throughout the film are interludes of an actress who prepares for the role of Chiang Bi-Yu, and confronts her deceased boyfriend's past.

Awards

''Good Men, Good Women'' won the Golden Horse Award , and was shown in the Cannes Film Festival.