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318 Ratings

A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION

獨立時代 | Du li shi dai

Directed by Edward Yang
Taiwan, 1994
Comedy, Drama, Romance
  • 129129 minutes

Synopsis

Biting black comedy about 56 hours in the life of young city-dwellers and their work, loves and relationships, in which a peripheral character has written a novel in which Confucius returns to modern Taipei and is praised as a brilliant charlatan.

Synopsis

Biting black comedy about 56 hours in the life of young city-dwellers and their work, loves and relationships, in which a peripheral character has written a novel in which Confucius returns to modern Taipei and is praised as a brilliant charlatan.