18 (1993)

4.8/10 104 min Drama

Overview

A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him and return home. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws and weirdoes.

Cast

Lu Hsiao-Fen

Pearl / Ah-chiao (as Monica Lin)

Tou Tsung-hua

Wu Hsing-Guo

Hsiao Hou Tao

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