SYNOPSIS

Good Men, Good Women is the concluding film in the Hou's trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan. It dramatizes the Taiwanese people's fear and reluctance to deal with their past, showing the effects of Taiwan's forgotten history on the destiny of an actress in present-day Taiwan.
This film reveals the story through different time sequences: the past, as a drug-addicted barmaid, of actress Liang Ching, now being persecuted by an anonymous man who has stolen her diary and faxes her pages daily. Liang is also rehearsing for a new film about resistance fighters in the 1940s.
Hou uses the device of a "film within a film" to tell the story of real-life activists Chiang Bi-Yu and her husband Hao-Tung who fought in China against the Japanese during World War II, but were arrested as Communists when they came home.
Dedicated to all the political victims of the 1950s, this complex and elliptical film is one of Hou's greatest, filled with tenderness and sensuality and an aching melancholy for a world whose promise has remained unfulfilled.

TECHNICAL DATA

Director: Hou Hsiao Hsien
Script: T'ien-wen Chu basado en la novela de Bi-Yu Chinag
Cast: Annie Shizuka Inoh, Giong Lim, Jack Kao, Jieh-Wen King, Bo-Chow Lan, Li-Chin Lu, Chen-Nan Tsai, Vicky Wei 
Cinematography: Huai-en Chen
Music: Hslao-Wen Chiang
Runtime: 108 min. COLOR.