What's the aspect ratio?


Netflix gave it to me in full screen.

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I'm wondering this as well. The available DVD is only in full-screen, but Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness is in widescreen and both of those movies are considered part of an informal trilogy. I haven't yet seen the third film of that trilogy, Good Men Good Women. Is that in widescreen or fullscreen?

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GMGW is widescreen (but, like most Hou DVDs, it's not an anamorphic transfer.)

The only DVD editions of The Puppetmaster are cropped - it should be in the 1.66:1 to 1.85:1 range (probably the latter) like the rest of Hou's films.

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