Parking (2008 film)

Parking
Traditional 停車
Simplified 停车
Mandarin Tíngchē
Directed by Chung Mong-Hong
Written by Chung Mong-Hong
Starring Chang Chen
Gwei Lun-mei
Leon Dai
Chapman To
Jack Kao
Peggy Tseng
Lin Kai-jung
Music by An Dong
Cinematography Chung Mong-Hong
Edited by Lo Shih-Jing
Running time
 106 minutes
Country Taiwan
Language Mandarin

Parking (simplified Chinese: 停车; traditional Chinese: 停車; pinyin: Tíngchē) is a 2008 Taiwanese movie.

Synopsis

On Mother’s Day in Taipei, Chen-Mo (Chang Chen) makes a dinner date with his wife (Gwei Lun-mei), hoping to improve their estranged relationship. While buying a cake on his way home, a car double-parks next to his, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches for the owner of the car and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple living with their precocious granddaughter who have lost their only son; a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish-head soup; a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp’s cruel clutches; and a Hong-Kong tailor embroiled in debt and captured by underground loan sharks.

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