Mahjong

Mahjong (麻將, 1996) is a Taiwanese drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Edward Yang. The film is set in a Taipei where money moves fast between swindlers, hustlers, and gangsters, and where Western expats mistake the city's chaos for adventure.

At the center: a naive French teenager caught in the wrong web of connections, and a young local man trying to get her out. Yang builds the film around several converging groups — scammers, criminals, people who have simply run out of options — cutting between them without underlining the connections. The title fits: in this city, knowing when to fold is the only real skill. Virginie Ledoyen, Chang Chen, and Ko Yu-lun lead the cast. Viewers who know Yang from Yi Yi (2000) will find a recognizable coldness here — the same precise eye, the same refusal to assign blame tidily. Stream Mahjong (1996) online on iFILM.