| Terrorizers | |
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| Chinese | 恐怖分子 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Kǒngbù Fènzǐ |
| Directed by | Edward Yang |
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| Produced by | Hsu Kuo-liang |
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| Cinematography | Chang Chan |
| Edited by | Liao Ching-song |
| Music by | Weng Hsiao-liang |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Language | Mandarin |
The Terrorizers is a 1986 drama film by acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang.
The film concerns the coincidental interactions between three groups of people in Taipei: a young woman and the tough petty criminal gang of Native Taiwanese she hangs out with; a Mainlander doctor and his novelist wife; and a young photographer who observes the life of the city unfolding around him, in an echo of the protagonist of Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup.[1]
Terrorizers is a part of the New Taiwan Cinema.[2] "Famously characterized by Marxist scholar Fredric Jameson as the postmodern film,[3][4] the film was likened by Yang himself to a puzzle where the pleasure lies in rearranging a multitude of relationships between characters, spaces, and genres."[5]
