A City of Sadness

7.5
  • Genre:Comedy, Drama, History
  • Production:ERA International
  • Released:1989-10-21
  • IMDB:tt0096908
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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