Seventeen

Mar 27, 2011

1h 22m

★ 0.0

Overview

Xue Ping, an out of town war veteran and Ahong a high school night school student both take the train to visit Taipei and wander around Taipei city, spending a strange and chaotic day. From time to time these two people's lives intersect. When the sun sets, they finally run into each other, stirring up the drama, and the revelation of a sixty year old sad and beautiful gay love story.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation

Seventeen Trailers

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Cast

Hung/Ting

Ray Chang

Chao Hsueh-ping

King Shih-Chieh

Chao Hsueh-ping (Young)

Matt Wu

Chih-ju Lin

Fu (Young)

Kaiser Chuang

Jung-jung

Lene Lai

Sun

Chien Te-Men

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