Growing Up (1983)
January 29, 1983Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Fanny Chang Chun-Fang
Lin Hsiu-Ying
Tsui Fu-Sheng
Pi Da-shun
Doze Niu Cheng-Tse
Shiao Pi (teen)
Chang Pao-Shan
Sweet Potato's Father
Chuan-Wen Cheng
Shiao Pi (childhood)
Chang Ping-Yu
Mrs. Zhu
Chen Kun-Hou
Director
Tou Tsung-Hua
Adult Shiao Pi
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Growing Up (Chinese: 小畢的故事; pinyin: Xiǎobì De Gùshì) is a 1983 film by Taiwanese filmmaker Chen Kunhou. The screenplay was the first collaboration between Hou Hsiao-hsien and Chu T’ien-wen. The film made the young star, Doze Niu, "a pop icon and tagged him with a rebellious image."Growing Up was the film that "first attracted broad critical and popular attention to the movement" known as New Taiwan Cinema. It "established some of the movement's key stylistic approaches and narrative concerns, with its subdued manner in relating the story of an adolescent boy grappling with everyday pangs amid Taiwan's fraught provincial context." The film was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.