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Murmur of Youth
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Wikipedia article
'Murmur of Youth' is a 1997 Taiwanese coming of age film directed by Lin Cheng-sheng. Stars Rene Liu and Jing Tseng shared the Best Actress award at the 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival.
Plot
The film follows the parallel stories of Chen Mei-Li (Rene Liu), a middle class suburban girl from a materialistic dysfunctional family, and the shyer, more introverted Ling Mei-li (Jing Tseng), a working-class girl being raised by her father and grandmother in a ramshackle home on the outskirts of town. The two meet when Ling, after dropping out of college when the boy she has a crush on begins dating another girl, takes a job at a local movie theater where she works the ticket booth with Chen. First bonding over their shared name, a close friendship slowly develops between them.
Cast
*Rene Liu as Mei-li Chen
*Jing Tseng as Mei-li Ling
*Chin-Hsin Tsai as Chen's father
*Hsiu Li as Chen's mother
*Grandma Pi as Grandma
*Pi-tung Lien as Lin's dad
*Shih-Hsine Wang as Baker
*Vicky Wei as Fen baker's girlfriend
*Chao-jung Chen as Lin's schoolmate
*Jen-Feng Cheng as Chen's brother
*Chiung-hua Chen as Chen's sister-in-law
References
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