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Synopsis: On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to bring their estranged relationship back together. While buying a cake on his way home, a car unexpectedly double parks next to his car, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen Mo searches the floors of a nearby apartment building for the owner of the illegally parked car, and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple living with their precocious granddaughter who have lost their only son, a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish head soup, a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp's cruel clutches, and a Hong Kong tailor embroiled in debt and captured by underground loan sharks. After many hardships, Chen Mo finally gets his car out of the parking space, and, with new friends riding beside him, advances toward a new horizon in life.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Mong-Hong Chung
  7 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Year:
2008
112 min
165 Views


When did you come here?

I've never seen you before

I've seen you before

I still remember you

Ok, then...

I have a piece of cloth

I originally wanted to ask your father

to make a shirt for me

But he's not here

So I can only ask you instead

No problem

Ok. Then let's take a look at the cloth

I had never before seen such fine cloth

After the customer left

I pondered a long time in the shop

About what, I don't know

Not long after

I began cutting the cloth

That day

Was the happiest day

I ever spent as a tailor

That night I had a dream

I dreamt of my father

Wearing the clothes I had made

Afterwards, I realized

It was as if I had made this suit

of clothing for my father

He tailored clothing

for people all his life

But he himself was never able

to wear a good pair

After he left

Holding on to this store

Was like holding on to a coffin

Except the one buried in the coffin

Was myself

What happened?

I told my customer

I don't want to make clothes

for other people anymore

Because I know in 20 years

I'd still be wearing this same suit of clothing,

tailoring clothes for other people

I asked him, could I go into

business with him?

How did you know I opened

a clothing factory in Guang Zhou?

I still remember you talked to

my old man about it

You really intend to give up this shop

and come help me in the clothing factory?

Then let me ask

What are you going to do with the shop?

I'll close it down first

Once I settle down over there

Then I'll take care of matters over here

You're completely different

from your father

He was cautious and conventional

When I first arrived in Guang Zhou

Everything was quite smooth

Who would have thought

in less than a year?

A problem arose in company turnover

After the company was finished

I returned to Hong Kong

And couldn't find a job,

Only some temporary work

One day I remembered

this suit of clothing

And wanted to come back and take it with me

Thought I might as well come back

to take a look at the shop

As a result, they caught me

as soon as I returned

Back when the company had problems

I put the house up as collateral

And borrowed five million

Then the underground loan sharks couldn't find him

So they came for me

How did things turn out this way?

When I saw you before, you were

even quite happy to leave here

How the hell could I know?

Back when I was living with my mother

in Hong Kong,

I always wanted to leave

After she passed away,

I came to Taipei

The following years I saw my father's

business getting harder and harder

After I came to Guang Zhou,

Everything was new

I wanted to stay and become prosperous

In the end, it's still the same

Just now Mad Dog told me

You can't stay here anymore

They'll come for you again.

You know there's no one

the mafia can't find

You were lucky this time

They only splashed you with paint

Next time it'll be different

Young man

You aren't hurt, are you?

I'm alright

My arm was hit

I think you should head back

Or else the later it is the more

problems will come up

Yeah

Where do you want to go?

I can take you there

Is your car white?

Yeah

Then never mind

It's blocked again

Did you see who it was?

Yeah

Looks like it was someone

from over by the clinic

Should be the fourth floor's

Only their car comes and goes like that

Who are you here for?

I want to ask if the double-parked

car downstairs is yours?

Ah Bao

Is your car blocking someone?

Which car?

Which car?

A grayish blue car

The grayish blue one

No

Sorry, not our car

Are you here to f*** around, dipshit?

I want to speak to Ah Bao

I told you it's not our car

I want to speak to him

about something else

Ah Bao, someone here for you

Alright, be right there

Did a friend introduce you here?

He's the sh*t who just said someone

was blocking his car

Are you that bored, letting anyone

come here to f*** around?

I just said it's not my car

You blocked my car during the evening

Evening?

Damn, that was three, four hours ago

What the f***

do you want coming to me now?

Your car's blocked again?

It's not my f***ing car

Go find the owner

What do you want me for?

If you hadn't blocked my car

in the first place

I wouldn't be here right now

Brother,

Let me tell you frankly

I also hate a**holes who double-park

But what can you do?

Everyone's out there making a living

Am I right?

Cars come and go

And sometimes they double park

for a while

So what?

Am I right?

Your car's been parked there

longer than 10 minutes

You Motherf***er!

What day is it today?

Sunday

What time is it?

Past 9 o'clock

Who am I hurting if I park there?

I'm hurting you?

Then what the f*** you wanna do?

Then how's this?

Your car's stuck there now anyway,

am I right?

How's this?

You can call a girl and have a good time

Here, I'll give it to you cheap

Alright?

No need

It's my apology to you

Come on, I'm serious

This one's not bad

No thanks

See, she used to be in fashion magazines

Come on

Just give it a try

No need

You don't like this type, huh?

No problem

How's this one?

No, I just wanted to tell you...

It's because your car was blocking

my car that I'm here now

Lee Wei

Lee Wei

This is a mainland girl

We just brought her here

Beautiful

Alright, isn't she?

No need

She's really good

It's all real

Take a try

No need

Come on, have a good time

Fresh

Sh*t

F***

It's a**holes like you

What the hell?

F*** you, jackass

F*** your mom in the ass

You can't see I'm sleeping?

Motherf***er

"A man wants a transsexual operation,

a woman is donating the penis"

What's Taiwan like?

Taiwan's a small island

Ocean on four sides

There's a mountain in the middle

Dividing Taiwan into east and west

Summers are very hot

Winter's not too cold

Then where are we staying in Taiwan?

Taipei

Is it big?

Taipei's not small,

But compared to Shanghai or Beijing

Of course it's a bit smaller

But it's very modern

I've heard there are lots of

delicious things in Taipei

Yeah

Night markets, eateries

When we go there I'll take you to eat there

You'll take me to these places?

Yeah

Does Taipei have places

for body piercing?

Body piercing?

Does Taipei have places

for body piercing?

You're talking about tattoos

Yeah

There are

The same one?

The same one again

I got it

Ok. Bye bye

I'm going out to deliver the goods

Look after things here

Motherf***er, look after your own tooth

F***

My dad once struck his nose

in a motorcycle accident

His whole nose swelled up

Said it was no big deal

Didn't have to see the doctor

Later he got it examined

It was nasopharyngeal carcinoma

I don't want you to be too late

Peanut, how old are you?

How long have we known each other?

About 15 years or so

Every day for the last 15 years

I've listened to you bullshitting

What's with you?

Are you asking for

someone to f*** you up?

You obviously see I'm in pain

You don't say a thing to comfort me

You even keep talking about

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