愛你愛我 (2001)

Wissenswertes

Betelnut Beauty is a 2001 Taiwanese film directed by Lin Cheng-sheng. It depicts the love story between a betel nut beauty and a young man, who failed to survive in Taipei City. The film is nominated for the Golden Bear at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. Director Lin Cheng-sheng won the Silver Bear for Best Director and the leading actress Angelica Lee won the Piper Heidsieck New Talent Award for the best young actress. In 2001, President Chen Shui-bian met the crew of Betelnut Beauty to praise their success at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival.

Production

Before he started his film career, Director Lin Cheng-sheng had been a baker for ten years. Other than being a feature film and documentary director, he also writes film scripts and acts. Although he had never thought about being an actor, the director of Tropical Fish, Chen Yu-hsun encouraged him to give it a try and he made his acting debut in Tropical Fish (熱帶魚; 1995) as a supporting actor and later took the leading role Buddha Bless America (…

Betelnut beauty was a part of Taiwanese culture in the 1990s. Betel nuts had been a stimulating snack popular among the lower-class laborers in Taiwan since early times. After industrialization and urbanization in the 1970s, drivers of transportation industries became the main consumers of betel nuts, which were sold in stalls on roadside near traffic intersections.

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