Good Men, Good Women

1995 · 108 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 1,283 VOTES · DIR. Hou Hsiao-hsien

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Overview

An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is about to appear in.

Dialogue Timeline — 824 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:08 When yesterday's sadness is about to die
00:11:35 Hao-Tung wants me to go to the Mainland with him.
00:16:57 You can go there tomorrow.
00:22:49 There's a good boy.
00:28:17 You came here, what's your objective?
00:30:08 Taiwan.
00:31:53 To fight the Japanese.
00:36:26 Thankfully Chiu Nien-Tai of the Civil Defense Corps...
00:40:02 I'm sure our child would be beautiful.
00:45:39 She's touched by your patriotism.
00:48:39 Ah Tong.
00:51:23 Everything would come out.
00:53:54 Let go!
00:58:28 - He'll do the negotiating. - Fine.
01:00:32 - Come! - Cheers.
01:09:34 It was tabled last month...
01:11:23 a tiny minority owns most of the land.
01:13:03 - Excellent! - Great!
01:15:01 but he was arrested, too.
01:23:00 to defend the Taiwan Strait.
01:26:32 How dare you!
01:33:37 Ah Wei, please come back.
01:37:23 It won't be enough.
01:40:10 You have so many talents.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed824
Dialogue density7.6 lines / min
First line00:01:08
Final line01:40:10

Production Record

DirectorHou Hsiao-hsien
LanguageChinese
Revenue$10,050,000
IMDb votes1,283