Din Tao: Leader of the Parade
2012 · 124 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 403 VOTES · DIR. Feng Kai
Overview
A-Tai (Alan Ko) narrates that he is the son of Uncle Da (Chen Po-cheng) and Aunt Da (Samantha Ko), who run a troupe in Taichung. Uncle Da's troupe does traditional performance in front of religious processions. The religion requires performers to "initiate the faces and pose as gods"—to put on a special face painting, or to put on a heavy body puppet costume, both of these represent gods' persona. The performance demands training of martial art, acrobatics and endurance, and the performers are negatively associated with gangsters by the society. Uncle Da has been competing with Wu-cheng (Liao Jun), who studied with Uncle Da under the same master. A-Tai grew estranged with his father and the troupe, and went to Taipei to study Rock music, until a mysterious old man in blue coat bids him home.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,781 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:44 Everyone says I've got a pair of naughty hands
00:06:21 You're never a good student in Taiwan
00:10:21 Let me get in first. Me first.
00:13:53 Hmm... good girl, come.
00:18:32 Come, let's go.
00:22:15 I'll let everyone know that he's real protegees of Master Chan.
00:26:34 You know nothing but pretend to be an expert.
00:32:33 They're a bunch of hooligans.
00:37:02 Are you blind?
00:40:46 Right, that's why I asked you to tell them!
00:46:18 I can't dance to such crap drum beats!
00:51:10 Uncle is always so impatient.
00:56:18 Ha ha, he wants to be Michael Jackson.
01:02:27 I didn't call you a princess (pun on anyway).
01:07:26 Enough!
01:14:05 You're so great!
01:18:34 Bravo!
01:22:12 That's Prince Nezha.
01:25:58 people respect
01:30:36 Ming! Ming! He fell off!
01:35:24 I've been insulting you for too long.
01:41:08 Your dad has been doing ding-tao all his life, how can he not understand it?
01:48:12 Come, sit down everyone.
01:56:32 I believe one day our efforts and journeys will be paid off.