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Hotel Black Cat

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Terracotta Festival 2011 proudly welcomes the following special guests to London: Tak Sakaguchi, Rina Takeda, Clement Cheng, Sam Voutas.

Introduction

Hotel Black Cat

Hei Mao Da Lu She

Past traumas still linger with the eclectic residents at Hotel Black Cat

Film Summary

European Premiere

Dir:

Herb Hsu Li-Wen

Cast:

Lu Yi-Ching, Lee Kang-Yi, Wen Zhen Ling, Matt Wu Zhong-Tian, Huang Cai-Yi, Wen Ji-Xing, Kageyama Yukihiko

98 min

Mandarin

(English subtitles)

Taiwan

2010

Black Comedy

Screening:

Friday 6 May 2011 (doors open 13:00)

Film Main Info

Herb Hsu’s colourful debut assembles a cast of characters who have slightly damaged pasts and inhabit former hostess dancer Mangs’ crumbling hotel. Tsai Ming Liang regular Lu Yi-Ching plays the ageing Mang who too has a past she can’t run from, and rents rooms to an assortment of characters:

Teenage runaway Chow Chow wears her school uniform all day long, and her only friend is her cuddly toy rabbit.

Broke but proud unemployed Japanese salaryman, Asano, is unable to tell his wife back in Japan that he has been laid off.

The hotel cleaner, a Vietnamese immigrant, is saving to build a house back home.

Yeh Ling Long, a prostitute, operates from one of the rented rooms in which she lives with her son.

Nobody knows why these guests stay at Hotel Black Cat and never go home.

Mangs history is then slowly revealed with the appearance of Danny, a man from her past, recently released from jail.

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