← ← Back
Movie poster: Mahjong (1996)
🎬 Movie

Mahjong

1996 · 121 min Comedy Drama Crime
7.4 / 10 · TMDB

A disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, and gangsters navigates the chaotic, rapidly transforming landscape of Taipei. Their orbits collide with a naive French teenager searching for her older brother and a sensitive local youth who becomes her unlikely protector. In this urban jungle where everyone is running a con, cynical self-interest clashes with fragile innocence, and deception operates as the primary currency of human connection.

Watch online

Click to play

📋 Film Details

Original Title 麻將
Year 1996
Country Taiwan
Genre Comedy, Drama, Crime
Director Edward Yang
Runtime 121 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.4/10 (43 votes)

📺 Where to Watch

Checking availability...

🎬 MovieFinder's Take

Edward Yang captures Taipei as a fragmented, nervous system where tradition evaporates into globalized commerce. His camera observes the cruelty and alienation with clinical detachment, refusing sentimental resolution.

What lingers after the final frame is the chilling precision of its social diagnosis—a generation adrift, where every human transaction feels like a potential con. A brutally coherent vision of urban disconnect. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Edward Yang

🕯️

Best Watched

Neon-drenched night markets, claustrophobic apartments thick with cigarette smoke, anonymous glances in crowded subway cars.

🎭 Cast

🎬 Similar Movies

💬 Audience Reviews

Write a Review

Quick rating — tap to vote:

Or write a full review:

0/2000