The Taiwanese History Trilogy
The “Taiwan History Trilogy” is a loose thematic grouping of films by Hou Hsiao-hsien, consisting of A City of Sadness (1989), The Puppetmaster (1993), and Good Men, Good Women (1995). While not connected through a continuous narrative, these films are united by their deep engagement with key moments in Taiwanese history and collective memory, tracing the island’s social and political transformations across different eras.
A City of Sadness
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
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The Puppetmaster
Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century.
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Good Men, Good Women
An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is about to appear in.
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