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Millennium Mambo [DVD]

Qi Shu (Actor), Jack Kao (Actor), Hsiao-hsien Hou (Director) Rated:
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4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
IMDb7.0/10.0
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Format Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Dolby, Subtitled
Contributor Doze Niu, Jun Takeuchi, Hsiao-hsien Hou, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Qi Shu, Chun-hao Tuan, T'ien-wen Chu, Jack Kao, Hui-ni Xu See more
Language Cantonese
Runtime 1 hour and 59 minutes
Color Color
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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 0.01 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Hsiao-hsien Hou
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Dolby, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 59 minutes
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Qi Shu, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Jun Takeuchi
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Lions Gate
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0002DB5MC
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ T'ien-wen Chu
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings

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Customers find the movie to be great. The pacing receives mixed reactions, with some finding it captivating while others note issues with repeated scenes.

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Customers find the movie to be great, with one describing it as gorgeous.

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"I loved the movie. A dark side to it. I would recommend to Shu Qi fans." Read more

"The movie is gorgeous and lyrical but the VOD version here on Amazon needs some serious work...." Read more

3 customers mention "Pacing"1 positive2 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the movie, with some finding it captivating while others point out issues such as repeated scenes and inept bar sequences.

"...The action is not linear and some scenes are even repeated. As it happens with all movies of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the effect is not immediate...." Read more

"I would say that this movie is captivating and believable - watching it is like taking a voyeuristic journey alongside the troubled life of a young..." Read more

"...There is no shortage of cigarettes there. All bar scenes are extremely inept." Read more

Movie works, case might be re-wrapped.
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Movie works, case might be re-wrapped.
I’ve had problematic CD cases with Amazon in the past. It’s gotten to the point where I returned some other DVD’s I purchased through Amazon however the CD is usually in viewable condition and the movie is the movie so I’m not complaining.
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  • PIERRE RADULESCU-BANU
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dreams like Snowmen
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2015
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    A girl is advancing graciously along a walkaway, giving sometimes the impression of floating; she's talking presumably about herself, but at the third person. Or is it about another girl? She's saying that the story has happened ten years ago, in 2001. It's about an abusive boyfriend and about her dependence on him, but her tone is detached, and she's smiling. Are we really in 2011 in this scene? Or the girl from 2001 is imagining her future (Millennium Mambo was made actually in 2001)? As she is advancing, the walkaway becomes a tunnel going down: is it a metaphor for the road that life follows toward the end? The whole scene seems surreal, sending subtle signals: maybe the story in the movie is just symbolic, like in a medieval morality.

    Actually the walkaway exists in reality. It is in Keelung, a city on the border of the ocean. The girl exists also in reality, and she is from that city, too. One evening, in a bar in Taipei, she told Hou Hsiao-Hsien her story, talking about herself at the third person, and with the same detachment as the personage from the movie.

    Why did she tell her story to the filmmaker? I think because Hou Hsiao-Hsien is a good listener, and people feel confidence and sympathy in good listeners. The movies of Hou Hsiao-Hsien show a particular respect and empathy for people like Vicky, and Hao-Hao, and Jack: young people floating freely over the borders of promiscuity, guys good of nothing, bar girls, small thieves, petty gangsters.

    The plot could be told in just a couple of sentences: a teenage girl (Vicky) is trying to break with her abusive boyfriend (Hao-Hao), only she always comes back to him; it's like a spell; she needs a job as he doesn't work; she becomes a stripper in a bar where a small gangster (Jack) offers her protection; will the new relation evolve beyond camaraderie? will she rather come back once more to Hao-Hao?

    There are three great masters here: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the filmmaker, Chu Tien-Wen, the author of the screenplay, and Lee Ping-Bing, the cinematographer. Each scene of Millennium Mambo carries some kind of magic and seems unreal: it comes in a halo of blue tones; people and objects are taking shape, to repeat the same basic action; he is abusive, she is submissive, again and again. Taipei: a city of young people, populating the night bars, living the rhythms of techno music, sleeping during the day.

    As the movie is developing slowly on the screen, you are looking for a sense in all that. The action is not linear and some scenes are even repeated. As it happens with all movies of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the effect is not immediate. It is like depot medication: the feeling about the movie is penetrating you slowly, long after it has ended. Sometimes it can take years. The art of Hou is of a special kind: words like wizardry or slow poison are not out of context.

    To get the sense of the movie, you should watch carefully the ending scene, taking place in Japan during winter. The fact that a story from Taiwan moves suddenly to Japan is not important: the reason there is the snow! It snowed in Tokyo that winter, remembers Vicky (the sentence sounds so great! the author of the screenplay, Chu Tien-Wen, is one of the most important names in Taiwanese literature).

    The movie is about our dreams: they are pure, our dreams, we build them in immaculate snow, we live our lives in the country of snowmen. We dream about eternity: they will live, our dreams, only as long as snowmen live.
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  • Gig Marshall
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best exchange would use again
    Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2024
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    The best DVD.. from one of my favorite actresses.
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  • Shardar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Movie works, case might be re-wrapped.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024
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    I’ve had problematic CD cases with Amazon in the past. It’s gotten to the point where I returned some other DVD’s I purchased through Amazon however the CD is usually in viewable condition and the movie is the movie so I’m not complaining.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Movie works, case might be re-wrapped.

    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024
    I’ve had problematic CD cases with Amazon in the past. It’s gotten to the point where I returned some other DVD’s I purchased through Amazon however the CD is usually in viewable condition and the movie is the movie so I’m not complaining.
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  • LGwriter
    4.0 out of 5 stars The smoker
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2006
    Directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsien, Millenium Mambo is a compelling portrait of anomie in modern day Taiwan. The lead female, Vicky, played by actress Shu Qi, is seen endlessly lighting cigarettes which quickly comes to represent her lack of direction, her uncertainty about her life. She basically does not know what to do so to substitute something halfway "concrete" for this lack of direction, she lights a cigarette.

    In addition, as is true for Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Barren Illusion (not available domestically on VHS or DVD), the director peppers the film with references to Western culture that have pervaded the culture of Taiwan; the implication is that this counts in large part for Vicky's alienation and, by extension, that of her friends who are also bar girls and also that of her boyfriend, Hao Hao.

    Hsien uses time splicing to tell his story and this is a subtle use indeed. We see a back and forth of events, some of which Vicky narrates in voiceover, some of which she does not. She goes to Japan to find her new boyfriend Jack after she breaks up with Hao Hao; Jack is a gangster, another oblique reference to Western culture that has corrupted, or at least changed Taiwanese culture. But she also goes there to find two brothers, whose names escape me at the moment, who are half Japanese and half Taiwanese. While there, the camera languidly passes by a long series of posters illlustrating movies both Western and Asian alike. This is Hsien's way, no doubt, of indicating the context of this film itself; it is, after all, only a movie. Or maybe it is, more than anything else, a movie. Who can tell?

    Hsien is known for his seemingly ambling, plotless style, and this film is no exception. But here he subtly manages to get Vicky's psyche to burrow under our skins, and the effect is, as many have said, hypnotic. This is as well underscored by the ceaseless techno music, an aspect of the film about which Hsien comments in the interesting interview that comprises one of the special features on the disk.

    Hsien's style lends itself, more than anything else, to an intensely subjective view of what he is trying to accomplish with his film(s). For me, this was far more compelling than Goodbye South, Goodbye, a film in which the actor who plays Jack in Millenium Mambo, Jack Kao, also plays a gangster. But here in Millenium Mambo, Hsien wisely focuses instead on a young woman whose emotional isolation, whose anomie, resonates far more fully and deeply throughout the film than was true in Goodbye, South, Goodbye.

    There is a gradual momentum that build in Millenium Mambo and it is, I feel, truly intriguing.

    Highly recommended.
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  • Mark T.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie
    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2021
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    Great movie
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Anything with Qi Shu in it I like. Would you happen to know where I can ...
    Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2016
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    Anything with Qi Shu in it I like.Would you happen to know where I can purchase her movie ''The Island Tales''
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  • mike-t
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2018
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    I loved the movie. A dark side to it. I would recommend to Shu Qi fans.
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  • L Allen
    3.0 out of 5 stars Slow paced but captivating in an odd way.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2013
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    I would say that this movie is captivating and believable - watching it is like taking a voyeuristic journey alongside the troubled life of a young woman and watching her decisions, choices, and addictions (smoking, drinking, and bad relationships). No real excitement; the flow is like floating down a lazy river and enjoying the view along the way.
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  • K. Sowinski
    5.0 out of 5 stars a mesmerizing experience
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 24, 2010
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    This is definitely one of my favourites. Beautifully shot, with a great main theme song (Lim Giong - A Pure Person), it kept me almost hypnotized. It's not about the storyline though, it's about capturing a beauty of the moment, the essence and the meaning of simple and ordinary things. This is a slow film with meaningful pictures that leave you wondering about much more than decadent lifestyle of the youth. Yes, there is plenty of space for thought but the greatest thing about the film is its exceptional atmosphere that stays with you long after you switched off your dvd.
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  • actifred
    5.0 out of 5 stars Une brève histoire du temps
    Reviewed in France on August 16, 2003
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    "C'était il y a dix ans déjà. L'année 2001. Le monde entier saluait le 21e siècle et célébrait le nouveau millénaire."
    C'est par cette phrase, énoncée en voix off dans la magnifique séquence d'introduction, que le ton de Millennium Mambo est donné. A l'aide de ce procédé, Hou Hsiao-Hsien définit une distance aussi bien physique (la voix off et les plans larges) que temporelle (l'histoire est contée au passé). Mais il ne s'agit pas, par cette technique, d'aboutir à un portrait froid et inhumain. La force de Millennium Mambo réside dans ce regard presqu'attendri sur cette galerie de personnages qui déambulent au sein d'un temps que nous savons déjà révolu. Millennium Mambo capte ces instants au parfum éphémère, des moments fugaces.
    Dans cet univers, nous suivons la jeune et superbe Vicky, prise entre son amour irraisonné pour Hao-hao et son attirance pour la maturité rassurante de Jack. Vicky symbolise une jeunesse sans repère, oscillant entre décisions et inertie, cette jeune femme est une sorte d'enfant perdu, sans véritable expérience encore, et à l'avenir incertain.
    Pourtant, à aucun moment, Hou Hsiao-Hsien ne se fera juge. Chacun des personnages est représenté dans sa complexité, ses ambiguïtés, et cette subtilité de traitement apporte d'autant plus de force et de réalisme aux portraits qui nous sont montrés. Ajoutons à cela la bande musicale merveilleusement envoûtante, des éclairages et des images superbes, un rythme posé, le jeu sobre et juste des acteurs, et nous voici en présence d'un film qui a su capter l'essence d'une certaine jeunesse taiwanaise, une oeuvre magnifique et sensuelle que l'on ne peut que conseiller chaleureusement.
    Mais si le film est superbe, l'édition DVD n'est pas en reste, elle non plus. L'image de très bonne qualité permet d'apprécier chacun des très beaux plans du film, et un grand soin a clairement été apporté aux différents menus. Le second DVD contient un certain nombre de bonus assez intéressants, comme quelques scènes coupées et une interview du réalisateur. Une édition de très bonne facture, qui mérite donc amplement qu'on s'y arrête.
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  • Kouz1 UB
    5.0 out of 5 stars NOUVEAU MILLENAIRE ?!
    Reviewed in France on April 22, 2016
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    Un grand moment de ciné, en Vo oblige et c'est tant mieux vue les dialogues très simples et assez peu nombreux. Cela n'a rien de dérangeant au contraire une grande partie du film réside dans le jeu des acteurs et cela qu'ils parlent ou non ! Un scénarios assez simple au final, mais une interprétation des plus réalistes, et cela je peut le dire sans être allé en chine, mais surtout pour avoir vécue des bribes de vies qui sont exposé dans ce film qui raconte toute une tranche de vie d'une jeune femme paumée et supportant la jalousie de son copain jusqu'à un certains stade. Le réal nous montre un film indé qui peut paraître simpliste mais qui ne l'est pas tant que ça, surtout sur la chonologie de certains évènements ou de certaines histoires raconté par l'héroïne. Une bande son techno, électro dont certains morceaux représente bien l'époque et l'ambiance du film et dont le morceaux principal est des plus réussies. Un regret, c'est de ne pas avoir trouvé la version double DVD pour ls bonus !
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  • MR H.
    1.0 out of 5 stars Region A edition
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2024
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    This is a Region A edition, so won't play on a normal UK domestic Blu-ray player.
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  • Francis Frenkel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime film !
    Reviewed in France on May 1, 2017
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    Sublime film ! A voir et à revoir.
    Ce film est simplement magnifique, avec cette intro qui fait partie des plus belles intros du cinéma international.
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