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Oops, I Absorbed Someone Else's Thoughts Again

Liu Ping-hui, gifted with the ability to absorb others' negative thoughts, believes he can bring peace to the world with his power. But instead of becoming a hero, he’s spent 38 years single—until he finally finds a girlfriend. His happiness is short-lived, however, as she abruptly breaks up with him via a cryptic message saying, “Your smile seems fake.” During his search for her, he meets Hsin-chieh, a fearless and passionate woman. As he tries to use his ability to help her, he only ends up creating more chaos in her life.

Oops, I Absorbed Someone Else's Thoughts Again

NR 2024
Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven Lives

Author Han Kang mourns everything that fades and perishes in the world, including her sister, who died just two hours after birth. Her mourning transcends writing; she composes music, sings, and even holds rituals for the dead at times. This documentary spotlights Han Kang as a unique artist who communicates with the world through diverse forms like art, music, and documentary. "Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven Lives" sensuously captures her literary world through dance and theater.

Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven Lives

10.0 2025
Cynthia: Kaijoken Tanjou Monogatari

Based on the real-life story of Yoshitomo Kimura, who suffered a spinal cord injury in 1987, resulting in paralysis from the chest down. His wife works as a clinical lab technician and struggles to encourage his will to live. After attending a motivational workshop featuring a wheelchair-bound man, Kimura resolves to rehabilitate himself. He eventually regains enough mobility to work from home, but still faces daily challenges—especially if he falls alone at home. That’s when they decide they should adopt a dog to assist him. They welcome a rambunctious Labrador puppy named Cynthia (シンシア), hoping she might become a trained service dog.

Cynthia: Kaijoken Tanjou Monogatari

NR 2003
A Woman Who Warns of Death

A successful lyricist, Sakumaki (Yukio Ninagawa), lives with his partner Kazue (Keiko Fujita) and their daughter, though he has always kept an emotional distance from them. One night, he returns home to find a mysterious woman in black (Yuko Kusunoki) waiting in his apartment. She calmly tells him that he will die the next night at precisely 12:13 a.m. Shaken, Sakumaki flees, only to discover the same woman appearing wherever he goes. As her presence grows more menacing and unexplainable, his fear spirals into paranoia. Directed by Toshiya Fujita, the episode blends domestic drama with supernatural dread, blurring the line between hallucination and reality. With Ninagawa in a rare starring role, supported by Ichiro Zaitsu and Akira Nagoya, the story pushes its protagonist into a psychological nightmare where fate, guilt, and obsession collide.

A Woman Who Warns of Death

NR 1973
Yeoyu and Seolbin - [Comedy]

The folk duo 'Yeoyu and Seolbin' completed their third album, 「Comedy」, while living in Jeju. The record swept the Folk category at the Korean Music Awards and was praised as "a single album that has it all—regret and sympathy, rage and sorrow, and hope." Exploring what it means to be alive in the face of life's tragedies, the duo weaves a subtle yet powerful narrative through Jeju's landscapes: an old house and its yard, a Chinese restaurant where they once worked, and the recording studio.

Yeoyu and Seolbin - [Comedy]

NR 2025
Ever Vanishing Present

Junko Mizuta in Japan has only 7 seconds memory. She keeps taking notes on what she did, talked, where she went every single second for social communication. She was struck down in the 2000's by a herpes simplex virus that caused massive damage to her brain. She was left with a memory that spans just seven seconds, it's one of the worst cases of amnesia. She also meets a man who has the same memory handicap in the program. His memory duration may be even shorter than her but he rarely makes notes. CBC TV follows Ms. Mizuta for years and she says ”Memory is Life”. This documentary is about "What is Memory?" "What is Life?"

Ever Vanishing Present

NR 2017
Jeremy's Tree

Based on a children's picture book of the same name. A Christmas tale about a bird who was raised by tree after it was abandoned. The tree was then cut down for people in the city to use for Christmas celebrations. The bird desperately is trying to find its adoptive tree mother with the help of Jeremy, a penniless orphan, who heard her story so they go and search every tree being used in town. The search in the cold takes a toll on Jeremy until Santa Claus appears, but is it really him?

Jeremy's Tree

NR 1983
小さな狂言師 誕生~野村萬斎・親子三代の初舞台~

Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai's eldest son, Yuki (3 years old at the time), was chosen to play the role of a child monkey in the kyogen play Utsubo Saru, and together with Mansai's father, Mansaku, the three generations of the family made their first appearance on the stage. The first half of the programme is a documentary following Yuki as he trains for the traditional performance, and his father and grandfather as they strictly instruct him.

小さな狂言師 誕生~野村萬斎・親子三代の初舞台~

NR 2004
Tomorrow, I Shall be a Star.

Umei and Haluwey embarked on an artistic journey much later in life, exploring the realms of art, acting, and ethnic song-singing. Now, they have even started to write songs. This is a chronicle of two mothers pursuing their dreams. By taking a series of courses, they come to embrace their inner beauty, struggles, and self worth. Through songwriting and creative expression, Umei and Haluwey take a profound introspection of their lives, telling their stories as daughters-in-law, wives, mothers, and daughters.

Tomorrow, I Shall be a Star.

NR 2024
Though Dead, Still Alive

Meilian and her husband Jianhe are the most loved-up couple, but three years ago, Jianhe became a vegetative state due to an accident. To cover the substantial medical expenses needed for their son’s long-term care, the Xu family has had to rely on various government subsidies to survive. One day, they were about to undergo an assessment to apply for a new subsidy, but unexpectedly, their son Jianhe passed away! Jianhe’s mother Yinggui and father Fuqiang, desperate to receive the subsidy, coerced Meilian into creating the illusion that Jianhe was still alive, leading to a series of absurd and comical events.

Though Dead, Still Alive

7.0 2025
Four Springs

Four Springs is a documentary film that presented a family's daily life in the remote town of Dushan in the Guizhou province in southwest China. From a subjective angle, the camera induced the flow of life out of the screen: the quotidian toils, singing, excursions in nature, visits among friends and extended families, funerals, reunions and departures. It presented the state of being of the two main characters, the director's own parents, and their attitude when facing irretrievable loss in life.

Four Springs

7.3 2019
The Crying Bamboo Forest

As a young boy, Fa'aye spent his days alongside his father deep in their lands, surrounded by towering bamboo and learning the ways of Atayal culture and knowledge. Now an elder, Fa'aye is caught between the trappings of the present day and trying to maintain a meaningful connection to his traditional territory, which has now been privatized by the state. With his young grandson in tow, Fa'aye is determined to return to the forest and reassert his duty to care for the bamboo despite the serious legal ramifications of his actions. The Crying Bamboo Forest is a remarkable first feature film that reflects the struggles and challenges currently faced by many Indigenous people living in Taiwan.

The Crying Bamboo Forest

NR 2010
The Long Goodbye

Chou,Shih-Ching is a senior radio broadcaster. On another side of her, she is a daughter who takes care of her aged mom who suffered from the Alzheimer's disease for years. Shi-Ching feels suffered and suffocated along with her mom’s progressively worsen disease. However, recently she easily forgets things and fails to recall what have happened. She feels she is no longer herself anymore. As her daily life sliding into chaos, her husband Liu, Kuang-Hsuan, who has disappeared for ages and her aggressive daughter suddenly come home, adding various and unpredictable factors into her life. While Shih-Ching confirms her Alzheimer, she plans to get everything ready and settled before her memory fades away….

The Long Goodbye

NR 2019
Laugh for 24 Hours

Bong-tshio is your ordinary countryside grandma, raising four kids in an impoverished environment; however, the kids that grew up and started their own families do not respect her, fostering her in turns for one month, while bargaining with each other about the number of days in different months. But the optimistic Bong-tshio always just laughed it off. Until one day, she got lost and wandered into a police station, and then accidentally won the top prize of the lottery. Her children began to look for her desperately, rushing back to their old place in the countryside, and kicked off a ridiculous competition of filial piety.

Laugh for 24 Hours

NR 2016
No One Home

Ah-Fu, burdened with overwhelming debt, moves into a container home deep in the woods with his nine-year-old son, Wei-Wei. Together with his girlfriend Jing-Wen and her seven-year-old daughter Huan-Huan, this makeshift, struggling family does their best to get through each day. Though life is poor, these small, fleeting moments gradually gather into a warm current of memories in the child’s heart. Years later, the container home they once lived in appears in the news. Wei-Wei is drawn back to those memories—Ah-Fu’s disappearance, Jing-Wen leaving without a word, a rusted biscuit tin, and a set of unclaimed human remains.

No One Home

NR 2026