The Boys from Fengkuei

Ah Ching (Doze Niu Cheng-Tse) has finished school in a fishing village on the island of Penghu, and what he wants is a way out of the drinking and fighting that fill his days with his friends. Hou Hsiao-hsien follows him and two others to Kaohsiung, where relatives find them an apartment and Ah Ching starts noticing a neighbor's girlfriend. The big city is harder than they expected, and Ah Ching has to work out who he is once the village is gone.