Sweet Degeneration

Sweet Degeneration — Plot

With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, his third film in two years. As with A Drifting Life and Murmur of Youth, Lin’s new film delicately unfolds, gradually building to a climax of stunning emotional reverberations. Drawn from a particularly painful episode in the director’s past, Sweet Degeneration delves into the uneasy bonds a brother and sister have with each other and the people around them.

• Release date
• January 1, 1997
• Runtime
• 118 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Lin Cheng-sheng

Sweet Degeneration — Cast

Lee Kang-sheng Chun-sheng Chen Shiang-Chyi Ju-feng

J

Jing Tseng

C

Chih-long Lin Ah-ching

S

Shih-huang Chen Father Leon Dai Ah-hai

L

Li-jung Lu Prostitute

C

Chao-yin Hsiao Hsiao-lien