Jianong Gong
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1964
The New Year's Gift is the story of some lucky money gifted to a girl. It then leaves her and passes from hand to hand.
A young woman finds employment in a department store, only to attract the unwanted advances of the manager and his son.
To get over a breakup with his actress girlfriend, a playwright goes on holiday to a lakeside resort, where he meets a strangely mismatched couple, a man and his much younger wife. He and the wife begin an affair, during which she introduces him to some of the darker aspects of romance.
