The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep them together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
Daughter of the Nile is a study of the lives of young people in contemporary urban Taipei. Released in 1987, it is one of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s lesser known films, sandwiched between two sets of trilogies that have come to mark the Taiwanese filmmaker as one of the most important figures to emerge in 1980’s world Cinema.
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Written by: Chu Tien-wen
Starring: Jack Kao, Tianlu Li, Fu Sheng Tsui, Fan Yang, Lin Yang
Run time: 91 minutes
Classification: PG
