Chinese Movie Series, Movie#2 - Nàxiē nián, wǒmen yīqǐ zhuī de nǚhái

那些年，我們一起追的女孩 (Nàxiē nián, wǒmen yīqǐ zhuī de nǚhái) means (In those years, we all were chasing girls), is one of my favorite chinese movies. It is also one of those rare Chinese movies, which doesn't involve Magic, Monkeys, swords fighting, Kungfu or Kings and landlords. (Probably the reason might be this movie has come from Taiwan)

Plot: The plot of this movie is everybody story of a careless boy in school falling in love with most beautiful and most intelligent girl of the class. Later he managed to come close to the girl, but in the end they get separated, it doens't have the typical happy ending means the girls and boy never get together.

                         Poster of the film  

                            

                    A still from the film  

Interesting Facts:
1. This movie is a Biographical fill of Giddens Ko (Director).

2. The film was on a very tight budget; Giddens used his entire savings and mortgaged his house to raise money, saying that he did it to impress ex-girlfriend, who provided the inspiration for this film's female protagonist, Shen Chia-yi.

3. This film was primarily filmed at Ching Cheng High School (精誠中學), the school Giddens and Shen Chia-yi attended.

4. The ending theme song "The Lonely Caffeine" (寂寞的咖啡因) had been composed by Giddens for Shen Chia-Yi when the two were in a relationship. He asked the male lead actor to sing the song in the film, because he felt this would convey the song's original meaning.

5. Another theme song - Those Years" (那些年).was an instant hit. The music video on YouTube logged its ten millionth viewer on 11 November 2011.

6. The film was heavily edited before its release in Mainland China.The scene where a flag-raising ceremony was taking place was edited away, as were the scenes involving masturbation.In total, six scenes involving "negative sexual and pro-Taiwan content" were either edited away or changed.

        Giddens ko on the far left, Michelle Chen(in the centre)

7. The film surpassed the performance of other Taiwanese films such as Monga, Cape No. 7 and Lust, Caution.


Conclusion: Watch it for the its beautiful story and to relish your childhood memory