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Daughter of the Nile on Dual Format in May from Masters of Cinema

16 March 2016

Eureka Entertainment have announced the release of Daughter of the Nile, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s compelling drama set amidst a world of young people and petty gangsters, as part of the Masters of Cinema Series in a Dual-Format (Blu-ray and DVD) edition on 22 May 2017 at the RRP of £17.99.

Daughter of the Nile

Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien (The Assassin; Three Times; Flight of the Red Balloon) followed up his highly acclaimed Coming of Age trilogy of films with Daughter of the Nile, a rich and poignant drama about a young woman struggling to support her family amidst the violent and neon-soaked milieu of 1980’s Taipei.

Lin (Lin Hsiao-yang) works as a waitress in a fried chicken restaurant, attends night school and pines after her brother’s friend, local gigolo Ah-sang (Fan Yang). Increasingly constrained by the casual brutality of the world around her, Lin finds escape imagining herself as the titular Daughter of the Nile, a character from her favourite manga series.

Based on the personal experiences of screenwriter, Chu T’ien-wen (Millennium Mambo; Goodbye South, Goodbye; City of Sadness) Daughter of the Nile is a profoundly moving observation of marginalised youth.

Dual Format features:

  • New 4K restoration

  • Uncompressed PCM soundtrack on the Blu-ray

  • Optional English subtitles

  • A new interview with Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns

  • Theatrical trailer

  • A booklet featuring new and archival writing