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Ah Chung

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After years of poverty and bad luck in inner-city Taipei, Taiwan, a woman (Chou Shio-min) decides to change her family's surname in the hopes of starting fresh. Unfortunately, the only result of their new name is that her son, Ah Chung (Liu Sheng-Chung), gets ridiculed by his classmates. In desperation, the woman tells her son that he can change the family's terrible fortune through his own piety. So he joins a religious group with uncomfortably close ties to organized crime.
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Chang Tso-chi

Director

Liu Sheng-Chung

Actor

Chou Shio-min

Ah Chung's mother

Lu Ying

Actor

Ho Huang-chi

Actor

Chang Chiao-ming

Actor

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Synopsis After years of poverty and bad luck in inner-city Taipei, Taiwan, a woman (Chou Shio-min) decides to change her family's surname in the hopes of starting fresh. Unfortunately, the only result of their new name is that her son, Ah Chung (Liu Sheng-Chung), gets ridiculed by his classmates. In desperation, the woman tells her son that he can change the family's terrible fortune through his own piety. So he joins a religious group with uncomfortably close ties to organized crime.
Director
Chang Tso-chi
Genre
Drama
Runtime
1h 37m
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