Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.

See what’s playing
Banana Paradise
  • Try 7 Days Free
  • Now Showing
  • MUBI GO
  • Gift MUBI
  • Film Database
  • Notebook
  • Notebook Magazine
  • MUBI Editions
  • SHOP
  • About
  • Ways to Watch
  • Students
  • Jobs
  • Terms & Privacy
7.6
/10
19 Ratings

BANANA PARADISE

香蕉天堂 | Xiang jiao tian tang

Directed by Wang Toon
Taiwan, 1989
Drama, Comedy
  • 116116 minutes

Synopsis

Two peasant brothers, tempted by tales of sweet bananas, follow the Kuomintang forces from China to Taiwan in 1949. They adopt false names and adjust to life in Taiwan amidst all the turbulent socio-economic changes leading up to their old age in the 1980s.

Synopsis

Two peasant brothers, tempted by tales of sweet bananas, follow the Kuomintang forces from China to Taiwan in 1949. They adopt false names and adjust to life in Taiwan amidst all the turbulent socio-economic changes leading up to their old age in the 1980s.