Taiwan’s Cities of Last Things to stream on Netflix
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 13 June 2019

Award winning Taiwanese drama Cities of Last Things has been acquired by global streaming giant Netflix.

The film, whose story is told in reverse chronological order, is directed by Malaysian Ho Wi Ding. Premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, it was awarded the best film in the experimental platform prize.

Shot on 35mm film, Cities of Last Things opens with images of a man hurling himself to his death off a multi-story apartment building. It goes on to reveal the man’s experience during three eras, three seasons, and three nights, compacted into one single night in the same city.

It stars Huang Lu (aka Lulu Huang) (Blind Mountain, She A Chinese,) Chinese actor and Golden Horse winner Hong-Chi Lee (Thanatos Drunk, Long Day’s Journey Into Night), Taiwanese actor Jack Kao (Millennium Mambo, Time and Tide,) and French actress Louise Grinberg (The Class, The Prayer).

The film has been theatrically released in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as being shown at other film festivals around the world.

“We are now very happy that with Netfilx, this Asian Chinese-language film will reach a global audience,” said Ho Wi Ding.

Ho’s Taiwan-based Changhe Films (Pinoy Sunday,) produced Cities of Last Things along with Ivanhoe Pictures (Crazy Rich Asians) Singapore’s MM2 Asia , and France’s Rumble Fish Productions.