After “Cute Girl” and “Cheerful Wind”, Hou Hsiao-hsien would again team up with former pop singer Kenny Bee for yet another romantic comedy, “The Green, Green Grass of Home”. Much like its predecessors, the feature serves not only as a means for the director to further make a name for himself within the film industry of his home country, but also as a way to find his voice and technique as a filmmaker, as some of the themes and visuals seem to foreshadow his later features such as “Dust in the Wind”, “Daughter of the Nile” and, perhaps most notably, “The Boys from Fengkuei”, which many critics and fans of the director regard as his first “true work”. “The Green, Green Grass of Home” would also become a success with audiences and critics, resulting in three nominations at the 1982 Golden Horse Film Festival, and Chou Pin-chun, who play one of the students in the feature,...
- 7/8/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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