In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.
Producer: Liao Ching-Sung, Chang Hua-Fu, Huang Wen-Ying
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Director of Photography: Mark Lee Ping-Bing
Writer: Chu Tien-wen, Hou Hsiao-hsien
May / Courtesan / Jing
Chen / Mr. Chang / Zhen
Hostess / Madam / Jing's Mother
May's Mother / Madam / Aunt
Haruko / Ah Mei / Blue
Yue / Mickey
Old Woman
Three Times (2005)