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    Three Times
    a.k.a. Zuidaode Shiguang Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien Cast: Shu Qi, Chang Chen

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    • DVD Release Date: 09/26/2006
    • Original Release: 2005
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 33,357

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    Disc #1 -- Three Times
    1. Kaohsiun, 1966 [4:21]
    2. Time for Love [5:22]
    3. How the Love Song Goes [12:40]
    4. Time Flies [4:59]
    5. Searching for May [7:06]
    6. Long Time No See [7:59]
    7. Dadaocheng, 1911 [5:07]
    8. A Time for Freedom [4:21]
    9. The Next Day [8:19]
    10. Six Days Later [6:26]
    11. One Month Later [9:29]
    12. A Question of Plans [1:48]
    13. The Wuchang Uprising [3:34]
    14. Taipei, 2005 [9:10]
    15. A Picture Show [12:19]
    16. Suspicious Behavior [10:02]
    17. A Rendezvous [3:11]
    18. One Missed Call [10:18]
    19. End Credits [3:15]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Millennium Mambo director Hou Hsiao-hsien explores the ever-changing cycle of love in this collection of three romantic stories set in 1911, 1966, and 2005 and utilizing the same actors in all three tales. In "A Time for Love," a fresh-faced soldier boy named Chen (Chang Chen) searches for a pool hall hostess named May (Shu Qi) who captured his heart before disappearing into the crowd. The second tale, set against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation of Taiwan and entitled "A Time for Freedom," finds an elegant courtesan tending to a young intellectual in a lavish brothel. The trilogy draws to a close with a segment entitled "A Time for Youth" in which a present-day Taipei singer who is also an epileptic neglects her female lover to seek the romantic attentions of a talented photographer. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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    August 05, 2007: THREE TIMES (Zui hao de shi guang) is so frank a film that the viewer may get lost looking for the hidden meanings in this century traversal of lovers' interactions in China. Not one for simple linear filmmaking, director Hsiao-hsien Hou instead opts for mood and suggestion and leaves the paucity of dialog to make room for emotional involvement and response. Three periods - 1966 A Time for Love, 1911 A Time for Freedom, and 2005 A Time for Youth - are depicted with the same main characters, Qi Shu and Chen Chang, who prove to be exceptionally sensitive to the concept from the director: with each new tale these fine actors mold new characters and questions and yet allow us to see a line of similarity in the couples as the director has suggested. The film wisely opens with the most successful of the three 'Times' - 1966 A Time for Love - - tracing the emergence of timid passion between a lad headed for the military and a young girl who works in a pool hall. They communicate by letters after their first brief introductory encounter and circumstances interfere with the progress of their relationship in 1966 Taiwan. The middle section 1911 A Time for Freedom is gorgeous visually and conceptually the director has elected to use the cinematic form of the period (silent movie) to tell his story about the freeing of a young girl from the grip of a brothel madam and surveys the political tensions between Japan and China as the quietly lighted story of love and yearning unfolds. The film ends with 2005 A Time for Youth and here our lovers are caught up in the pollution of smog, cellphones, emails, nightclubs, and infidelities for same sex affairs that speak loudly about the tenor of the times. Hsiao-hsien Hou's films are an acquired taste and many will find the choppy editing, the fragmentary scenes that are not always well focused for the story line, and the over-long length (130 minutes) too much to endure. But the ideas are fresh and the characters and vignettes are memorable, and most of the major critics in the media have lavished praise on this film. It is an interesting work but for this viewer there are enough flaws to keep it grounded. Grady Harp