Our Neighbor

An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to participate in a neighbor’s scurrilous get-rich-quick schemes. Invoking the pain of Chinese exiles living in Taiwan, or missing relatives still in China, the touching film posits an in-between historical period during which it is crucial for displaced residents to maintain virtue as a bedrock of identity.

Director: Lee Hsing

Cast: Yu Hua Ho, Ko Yu-Min, Lui Ming, Li Kuan-Chang, Yu-Chen Li, Wan-lin Lo, Tai Liang, Tsao Chien

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.