''That Day, on the Beach'' ( zh, t=海灘的一天, p=Hai tan de yi tian) is a 1983 Taiwanese New Wave drama and the first feature film by

Edward Yang Edward Yang (; November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker. Yang, along with fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, was one of the leading film-makers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese cinema. He won the Be ...

. The film deals with two old friends, played by

Sylvia Chang Sylvia Chang (born 21 July 1953) is a Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2018, she was one of the jury members of the main competition ...

and

Terry Hu Terry Hu (; born 21 April 1953) is a Taiwanese actor, writer and translator. Life Early life Hu was born Hu Yinyin in Taichung, Taiwan on April 21, 1953, with her ancestral home in Shenyang, Liaoning, the only child of Qu Shifang (), and Hu Gen ...

, who encounter each other in

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. Yang had to convince the film's production company to allow Christopher Doyle to shoot the film; Doyle would go on to win the Best Cinematography prize at the 1983

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for his work on ''That Day, on the Beach''. Yang's fellow Taiwanese New Wave director

Hou Hsiao-hsien Hou Hsiao-hsien (; born 8 April 1947) is a Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice ...

also plays a role in the film. The film is sometimes cited as the first in the Taiwanese New Wave.

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* 1983 films 1983 drama films Taiwanese drama films 1980s Mandarin-language films {{Taiwan-film-stub