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Title:

Stray dogs / director, Ming-liang Tsai ; screenplay, Peng Fei Song, Ming-liang Tsai, Chen Yu Tung ; producers, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin .

Publisher:

Cinema Guild,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Single fathers--Drama.
Alcoholics--Drama.
Children of alcoholics--Drama.
Homeless families--Drama.
Feature films.
Feature films--Taiwan.
DVD-Video discs.

Other Authors:

Cai, Mingliang, 1957- film director.
Song, Peng Fei.
Tung, Chen Yu.

Other Titles:

Journey to the West.

Notes:

Title from web page. Originally released as a motion picture in 2013. Bonus features: Journey to the west, a film by Tsai Ming-liang (2014, 52 min.); theatrical trailer; Booklet featuring essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum. Shiang-Chyi Chen, Kang-Sheng Lee.

Summary:

A single father makes his meager living holding up an advertising placard on a traffic island in the middle of a busy highway. His children wait out their days in supermarkets before they eat with their father and go to sleep in an abandoned building. As the father starts to come apart, a woman in the supermarket takes the children under her wing. There are real stray dogs to be fed in Tsai's everyday apocalypse, but the title also refers to its principal characters.

UPC:

881164000880

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)