Ru-Yun Tang

This film portrays life through portraits of the individual members of a Taiwanese family, each representing a stage from birth to death. (WinStar Cinema)

This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker's own boyhood. (imdb)

Li-hsiang's Love Line/Lixiang de ganqing xian (1990) reveals a quiet story that follows the development of a love affair between an unmarried woman who is a factory worker, and the widowed factory manager.