| Murmur of Youth | |
| Director: | Lin Cheng-sheng |
| Producer: | Hsu Li-kong Shun-Ching Chiu |
| Starring: | Rene Liu Jing Tseng |
| Music: | Bobby Chen Hong-Yee Chang |
| Cinematography: | Cheng-hui Tsai |
| Editing: | Hsiao-Tong Chen Li-Yu Chen |
| Runtime: | 106 min. |
| Country: | Taiwan |
| Language: | Min Nan, Mandarin Chinese |
Murmur of Youth is a 1997 Taiwanese coming-of-age film directed by Lin Cheng-sheng. Stars Rene Liu and Jing Tseng shared the Best Actress award at the 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival.[1]
The film follows the parallel stories of Chen Mei-Li (Rene Liu), a middle-class suburban girl from a materialistic dysfunctional family, and the shyer, more introverted Ling Mei-li (Jing Tseng), a working-class girl being raised by her father and grandmother in a ramshackle home on the outskirts of town. The two meet when Ling, after dropping out of college when the boy she has a crush on begins dating another girl, takes a job at a local movie theater working the ticket booth with Chen. First bonding over their shared name, a close friendship slowly develops between them.[2] [3]