Murmur of Youth () is a 1997 Taiwanese coming-of-age film directed by Lin Cheng-sheng. Stars Rene Liu and Jing Tseng shared the Best Actress award at the 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival.
Plot The film follows the parallel stories of Chen Mei-Li (Rene Liu), a middle-class suburban girl from a materialistic dysfunctional family, and the shyer, more introverted Ling Mei-li (Jing Tseng), a working-class girl being raised by her father and grandmother in a ramshackle home on the outskirts of town. The two meet when Ling, after dropping out of college when the boy she has a crush on begins dating another girl, takes a job at a local movie theater working the ticket booth with Chen. First bonding over their shared name, a close friendship slowly develops between them.
Cast Rene Liu as Mei-li Chen Jing Tseng as Mei-li Ling Chin-Hsin Tsai as Chen's father Hsiu Li as Chen's mother Grandma Pi as Grandma Pi-tung Lien as Lin's dad Shih-Hsine Wang as Baker Vicky Wei as Fen baker's girlfriend Chao-jung Chen as Lin's schoolmate Jen-Feng Cheng as Chen's brother Chiung-hua Chen as Chen's sister-in-law
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