Wolves Cry Under The Moon
– Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival...
09 Sep 1997
Mandarin, Min Nan
Ping Ho
Ping Ho, Cheng Ko (short stories), Cheng Ko
Annie Shizuka Inoh, Shih Chang, Pao-Ming Ku, Tsung-Hua To
Taiwan highways are crammed with millions of cars everyday. One day, the government closes the highways for 12 hours. All the cars are forced off their usual routes... Youthful Jade steals a jeep. On her way, she picks up the car's cell phone and calls the owner to bug him. Two of them gradually establish an ambiguous relationship. A trigger-happy man avenges his father's death and hijacks a bus. The bus driver gradually develops a sympathy for the killer, and begins to assume a father's role. Full of resentment towards his boss, a limousine chauffeur has given himself a day off to look for a girlfriend who had ditched him.
2 wins & 8 nominations.