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Summary
Terrorizers, The Kongbu fenzi (1986) A delinquent Eurasian girl, Shu-an, is kept under lock and key in her room by her mother. To break the monotony of her "incarceration", she makes prank calls on the telephone. Purely by coincidence, the number she calls belongs to that of the authoress Chou Yu-fen.
The prank call arouses Chou's inspiration to create but it also leads her to question the condition of her seven year-old marriages. Ever since she resigned from her job, Chou has been a housewife. The boredom of being a housewife causes her to write. Her husband, Li Li-chung is a conscientious laboratory technician in a hospital. He yearns for a promotion and when a high-level position falls vacant, he resorts to ruthless means to discredit his rival in order to win the post.
Chou Yu-fen decides to move out of her apartment to live alone, ostensibly to avoid prank calls but really to develop an affair with an ex-colleague; she resolves to separate from her husband. Meanwhile, Shu-an has escaped from home and links up with a young boy interested in photography. The relationship is cursory; Shu-an returns to the fold of her ex-boyfriend who has just been released from prison. Both of them set out to swindle easy victims in a sex seam.
Chou wins a literary prize for her novel but her relationship with her husband worsens. Li consults with his childhood friend, a police inspector, about the prank calls - which he believes is the cause of his marriage breaking up. But the policeman is unable to do anything. Li also suspects that his wife is having an affair. Dejected at the turn of events (he has also lost his chances for promotion), Li steals his friend's gun and goes on a killing spree. The violence that subsequently occurs may be real but it may also be a figment of Chou's literary imagination.
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The Golden Horse Awards 1986 |  |
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London Film Festival 1987 | |
| Best Screenplay
Asian Pacific Film Festival 0 | |
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Locarno Intl. Film Festival 0 | |
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 | Hong Kong International Film Festival 1987 |  |
| Hawaii International Film Festival 0 | |
| Chicago International Film Festival 0 | |
| | Edinburgh Film Fest. 0 | |
| Montreal World Film Festival 0 | |
| Toronto International Film Festival 0 | |
| | Vancouver International Film Festival 0 | |
| Tokyo International FIlm Festival 0 | |
| Mostra Intl.de Cinema 0 | |
| | Orleans Cinema Festival, France 0 | |
| Amiens Marche Intl. du Film 0 | |
| Fest. Intl. de Films Fribourg 1988 | |
| | Pesaro International Film Festival 0 | |
| Cannes Film Festival 0 | |
| San Francisco International Film Festival 0 | |
| | Boston Film Festival 0 | |
| Melbourne Film Festival 0 | |
| Sydney Film Festival 0 | |
| | Asian New Wave Film Fesival (Japan) 0 | |
| Houston International Film Festival 1989 | |
| L.A. Film Festival 0 | |
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