Daughter Of The Nile 4K Digitally Restored Ver.

[Machine Translation] A coming-of-age drama in the dark of night in Taipei, captured through the eyes of a young girl. This is the first 4K digitally restored Blu-ray release of the master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien's masterpiece from his 40-year career as a director! Hou Hsiao-Hsien, who has mainly filmed in the countryside of rich nature, sets his camera in the modern city of Taipei for the first time in this film. The film quietly observes the heroine as she struggles to survive amidst the chaos of the city. Beautiful and impressive scenes abound, such as a motorcycle speeding through the city at night, and a jeep carrying young people heading to the sea in the countryside. --Xiaoyang, the eldest daughter of a family whose mother died when she was young and whose father works far away, takes a part-time job while taking care of her younger sister and attending night school. Meanwhile, Xiaoyang's brother Xiao Fang, who is hanging out with the wrong people, repeatedly steals things, gets involved in shady business deals, and ends up tragically.... Xiaoyang, who is lost in his own dreams while listening to the sound of songs played on his brother's stolen Walkman or immersing himself in the world of his favorite pirated comic books, lives a stifling life in the rapidly changing city, but he continues to live on.

少女の眼が捉えた台北の夜の闇に生きる青春群像劇。監督生活40年を超えた、巨匠ホウ・シャオシェンの期の逸品が4Kデジタル修復版で初Blu-ray化! 自然豊かな田舎を主な舞台に撮ってきた侯孝賢が、初めて現代都市・台北にキャメラを据えた作品。都会の混沌のなか懸命に生きるヒロインを静かな眼差しで見つめる。夜の街を疾走するバイク、田舎の海へ向かう若者たちを乗せたジープなど、美しく印象的な場面も随所に。――母を若くして亡くし、父は遠方で働いている一家の長女・暁陽(シャオヤン)は、妹の面倒を見ながらアルバイトをし、夜間学校に通っている。一方、良からぬ仲間とつるむ兄・暁方(シャオフォン)は泥棒を繰り返し、いかがわしいビジネスに手を染め、悲劇的な末路をたどる・・・。兄が盗んできたウォークマンから流れる歌謡曲の音色に身をまかせながら、あるいは、お気に入りの海賊版漫画を読んではその世界に浸りながら、夢想に耽る暁陽は、変化の激しい都市での日々の暮らしにどこか息苦しさを感じながらもひたむきに生きていく。