About Love (2005 film)
2005 film by Yee Chin-yen, Zhang Yibai
About Love (Chinese: 關於愛; pinyin: Guan Yu Ai) is a 2005 anthology film. The film was directed by Ten Shimoyama, Yee Chih-yen, and Zhang Yibai. It was written by Haruko Nagatsu, Shen Wei, Yee Chih-yen and Takuji Ushiyama.
Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the characters speak Japanese and some of them Mandarin. Each story encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan, Taiwan or China, with a native of a different country.
Plot
In Tokyo, he is a Chinese computer graphic artist seeking to enrich his exposure while she is a Japanese painter struggling to recover from a broken relationship. This is the simplest and sweetest of the three stories, starting with hidden mutual attraction and ending in their first meeting.
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