“Winner of the 1983 Golden Horse Award (Taiwan's Oscar) for Best Picture and Best Director, Growing Up is a remarkably unsentimental account of a young boy's progress from mischievous youth to uncertain adult. Along the way, this film by one of Taiwan's emerging group of talented young directors manages to avoid the plot conventions that often plague Chinese family dramas. Set in the northern coastal town of Tamsui and narrated by the girl-next-door (with whom our hero resolutely does not fall in love), Growing Up is alternately quite funny and touching.... Performances, especially by the various actors playing the boy at different ages and by Chang Ch'un-fang as his mother, are all outstanding.” Stephen Horowitz