By Shikhar Verma
Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Chen Mei-juin’s “The Gangster’s Daughter” is her first narrative film. Showing a great eye for both the rural and urban lifestyle, her film follows the life of Shaowu (Ally Chiu), a rebellious teenager who has just lost her mother only to be reunited with her estranged father, who also happens to be a renowned gangster.
The Gangster’s Daughter is screening at Asian Pop-Up Cinema: Taiwan Cinema Online
Shaowu, which also translates to ‘dance’, is not the usual teenager. When living in Kinmen Island with her grandmother, she spends most of her time in her secret bunker and watching gangster films (also imitating them). When asked about her hobbies at her new school in Taipei city, her unusual reply of collecting ‘bullets & guns’ worries us. Thankfully, Mein-Juin’s film doesn’t follow the conventional gangster films. While guns, bullets and gang violence...
Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Chen Mei-juin’s “The Gangster’s Daughter” is her first narrative film. Showing a great eye for both the rural and urban lifestyle, her film follows the life of Shaowu (Ally Chiu), a rebellious teenager who has just lost her mother only to be reunited with her estranged father, who also happens to be a renowned gangster.
The Gangster’s Daughter is screening at Asian Pop-Up Cinema: Taiwan Cinema Online
Shaowu, which also translates to ‘dance’, is not the usual teenager. When living in Kinmen Island with her grandmother, she spends most of her time in her secret bunker and watching gangster films (also imitating them). When asked about her hobbies at her new school in Taipei city, her unusual reply of collecting ‘bullets & guns’ worries us. Thankfully, Mein-Juin’s film doesn’t follow the conventional gangster films. While guns, bullets and gang violence...
- 6/10/2020
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
By Shikhar Verma
Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Chen Mei-juin’s “The Gangster’s Daughter” is her first narrative film. Showing a great eye for both the rural and urban lifestyle, her film follows the life of Shaowu (Ally Chiu), a rebellious teenager who has just lost her mother only to be reunited with her estranged father, who also happens to be a renowned gangster.
“The Gangster’s Daughter” screened at the New York Asian Film Festival
Shaowu, which also translates to ‘dance’, is not the usual teenager. When living in Kinmen Island with her grandmother, she spends most of her time in her secret bunker and watching gangster films (also imitating them). When asked about her hobbies at her new school in Taipei city, her unusual reply of collecting ‘bullets & guns’ worries us. Thankfully, Mein-Juin’s film doesn’t follow the conventional gangster films. While guns, bullets and gang violence does...
Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Chen Mei-juin’s “The Gangster’s Daughter” is her first narrative film. Showing a great eye for both the rural and urban lifestyle, her film follows the life of Shaowu (Ally Chiu), a rebellious teenager who has just lost her mother only to be reunited with her estranged father, who also happens to be a renowned gangster.
“The Gangster’s Daughter” screened at the New York Asian Film Festival
Shaowu, which also translates to ‘dance’, is not the usual teenager. When living in Kinmen Island with her grandmother, she spends most of her time in her secret bunker and watching gangster films (also imitating them). When asked about her hobbies at her new school in Taipei city, her unusual reply of collecting ‘bullets & guns’ worries us. Thankfully, Mein-Juin’s film doesn’t follow the conventional gangster films. While guns, bullets and gang violence does...
- 6/20/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Veteran Taiwanese documentarian Chen Mei-juin (Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America) effortlessly pivots 180 degrees to deliver a nuanced narrative of growing up on the other side of the law in The Gangster’s Daughter. While international exposure will likely be limited to festival play, adventurous viewers may eventually discover the film on home entertainment or streaming formats.
Chen anchors the narrative with a memorable protagonist — sassy, independent teenage Shaowu (Ally Chiu), who gets labeled a tomboy because she’s not afraid of the snakes native to her small island home or standing up to her bullying male classmates. In a...
Chen anchors the narrative with a memorable protagonist — sassy, independent teenage Shaowu (Ally Chiu), who gets labeled a tomboy because she’s not afraid of the snakes native to her small island home or standing up to her bullying male classmates. In a...
- 12/1/2017
- by Justin Lowe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chicago – Opening Night of the fifth season of the Asian Pop-Up Cinema is Wednesday, September 20th, 2017, and the first film is a doozy. “The Gangster’s Daughter” is a different take on the popular Taiwanese mobster movie, a relationship film as much as the pure crime. At the helm is director Mei-Juin Chen, with her first narrative film.
“The Gangster’s Daughter” is about the relationship between Keigo (Jack Kao) and Shaowu (Ally Chiu), as a father who practices organized crime in Taipei (the capital of Taiwan) is forced to take in his rebellious teenage daughter after her mother dies. The move creates a different direction for the gangster, and allows him to reassess his entire life of crime. Shaowu, in the meantime, is flexing her adolescent freedoms, which includes a deep Daddy Complex. This clash disrupts both paths for the father and the daughter.
‘The Gangster’s Daughter,’ Directed...
“The Gangster’s Daughter” is about the relationship between Keigo (Jack Kao) and Shaowu (Ally Chiu), as a father who practices organized crime in Taipei (the capital of Taiwan) is forced to take in his rebellious teenage daughter after her mother dies. The move creates a different direction for the gangster, and allows him to reassess his entire life of crime. Shaowu, in the meantime, is flexing her adolescent freedoms, which includes a deep Daddy Complex. This clash disrupts both paths for the father and the daughter.
‘The Gangster’s Daughter,’ Directed...
- 9/20/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Gangster’s Daughter Review The Gangster’s Daughter (2017) Film Review from the 16th Annual New York Asian Film Festival, a movie directed by Mei-Juin Chen, starring Jack Kao, and Ally Chiu. The Gangster’s Daughter was a film that took more time to build its settings, characters, and conflict, than most any other film, with ‘Gangster’ [...]
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- 7/15/2017
- by Sam Joseph
- Film-Book
Even with box office growth in China leveling off last year, there’s every reason to believe a movie like Taiwan’s The Gangster’s Daughter could find an audience there. Budgeted at $1 million and starring Hou Hsiao-Hsien regular Jack Kao, the new movie opened in Taipei on March 10 in 25 theaters. But despite its star power and promising reviews, its chances in the massive mainland Chinese market remain slim.
Kao stars as Keigo, a fading Taipei gangster who takes custody of his estranged teenage daughter, Shaowu (Ally Chiu), who’s been living on Kinmen Island, a Taiwanese county lying closer to...
Kao stars as Keigo, a fading Taipei gangster who takes custody of his estranged teenage daughter, Shaowu (Ally Chiu), who’s been living on Kinmen Island, a Taiwanese county lying closer to...
- 3/20/2017
- by Jordan Riefe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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