18
6.6
“It is a story about a bowl and dice, the macrocosm and man.”
A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him and return home. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws and weirdoes.
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Cast
19 people
Lu Hsiao-Fen
Pearl / Ah-chiao (as Monica Lin)
Also in
Day Off
Song of the Exile
Tou Tsung-hua
Known for
Copycat Killer
Lust, Caution
Cheng Kuo
Ping Ho
Ang-Chien Hsu
Wu Hsing-guo
Known for
The Accidental Spy
God of Gamblers' Return
Ko Cheng
Known for
The Bridge Curse
Shu-Ping Li
Hsing-Kuo Wu
'Weirdo'
Hsiao Hou Tao
Known for
That Day, on the Beach
Chih-Tzu Lu
Tan Yang
Also in
Ah Fei
Sexy Ghosts All Around
Ho Ping Director · Kuo Cheng Writer Chen Po-Wen Editor
United States release October 1, 1993 · Produced in Taiwan · Production Taiwan Film Culture Co.
Production
King's Entertainment Co., Ltd.
Production
Taiwan Film Culture Co.
Production
Taiwan
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Languages
Original title
十八啦
Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese
Release dates
Greece · September 1, 1993
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Taiwan · September 14, 1993
Theatrical
United States · October 1, 1993
Chicago International Film Festival
Canada
September 14, 1993 · Toronto Film Festival
Germany
February 15, 1994 · Berlin International Film Festival
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