The Best of Times

Sep 20, 2002

1h 49m

★ 6.9

Overview

Although their characters and temperaments couldn't be less alike, 19-year olds Wei and Jie are best friends. They're also neighbours, living with widower fathers and problem siblings in the suburbs of Taipei. When Wei is promoted from the rank of nightclub parking valet to the rank of debt-collector in Brother Gu's gang, he persuades his boss to hire Jie to work alongside him. Things begin to go wrong when they are given a handgun to reward their success in the new job. Always excitable and volatile, Jie becomes reckless and dangerous when he has the gun in his hand. When they try to collect a debt from the boss of a rival gang, a fight erupts and Jie shoots the gang-boss. The boys find themselves on the run. But fate and their youthful dreams still have tricks to play.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

NHK Enterprises

Chang Tso-chi Film Studio

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Cast

Wei

Fan Wing

Jie

Kao Meng-Chieh

Granny

Wan-mei Yu

Wei's Father

Mao-ying Tien

Min

Yu-chih Wu

Dudu

Shang-Ting Chang

Jie's Father

Hen-Bao Lin

Brother Tse

Yi-che Tseng

Uncle

Ming-shiou Tsai

Dudu

Yuang-Ting Chang

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