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Philosophy student Ping just moved to Germany, when caught in the lockdown. Through online dating he matches Max, who invites him on a "social distance hookup". But when it's about to get spicy, a certain philosophy book ruins their plans.
Experimental filmmaker, Jack has developed a revolutionary type of film, which induces a euphoric state in the viewer. Needless to say, this rapidly becomes an underground phenomenon in Taipei. The label of these mind-altering screenings? Made In Taiwan... With the help of Amy Lin, organised screenings pop up around the city and crowds of eager MIT fans flood in to see his latest creations. As his films become more popular, Jack fights obsessively to keep complete control of his work. However, he also comes to realise that his films have long-lasting effects on the mind. With his own constant exposure to the films, Jack begins to slip into a dark, dream world of his own creation from which he may never return.
On Chinese New Year Eve, ten-year old Yang Lan anxiously waiting for her singer mother to come home. While the big family is celebrating loudly with Mahjong, fireworks, dinner and laughs, she struggles to reconcile her urge to feel, at least for a brief moment, loved.
Xiaofeng is selling medicinal herbs in Longshan Temple, but is at first driven away by Taiwanese peddlers upset by the intrusion of a mainlander into their business. Later, Xiaofeng auditions for a radio station, where a young Taiwanese man is attracted to her and finds he is soon in competition with a photographer from a mainland family.
Ah-Kuan, a teenager who grew up in a single-parent family, could not find warmth in his family, so he turned to friendship and love for solace. However, for the sake of friendship, he was caught in a dangerous storm and almost lost his life in the storm. It was also because of this storm that Ah-Kuan had the opportunity to go up the mountain, where he met an old Zen master and two young monks in a dilapidated temple.
A naked boy masturbates, accompanied by lines of poetry and caterpillars on the wall.
As ageing Mayaw's mind begins to fade, he hears the call of his indigenous Taiwanese homeland and its magical guardians - very far from the grey London he now inhabits.
Lin, a young boy bullied in school. Classmates accuse Lin's father of being a serial killer since he caused a hit-and-run accident several years ago. Lin turned to meat pie peddler who used to be a gangster. Lin stole his mother's money and asked the peddler to kill four of his classmates. But the peddler didn't take revenge for Lin; he ran away. Because of this, Lin transfers to a new school, a transformed person. From the scrawny boy bullied around, he has become the ring leader of a gang of bullies.
During a summer by the sea, Xiao Wu is rescued by Shuo, a lifeguard who mistakenly thought he was drowning. This encounter stirs up long-restrained desires in Xiao Wu’s heart as he finds himself unable to take his eyes off Shou.
Recounts the so-called 'Battle of Inchon', an episode at the end of World War II during the amphibious invasion of Korea, resulting in a decisive victory and a strategic reversal in favor of the Allied forces.
A mother ran into a monster on her way home. She was dragged into a surreal world, where she discovered her son's suppressed inner side. As she slowly discovered the truth, a tragedy was also foreshadowed.
Poni and Mini are identical twins. They look so much alike that even their secret admirers cannot tell them apart and people tend to forget that they are individuals.
Chou is a bit of an asshole. His habits include squatting, hanging out on the street, and teasing his old pal Deng. In his eyes, this is his world. One day, he finds out there are still some tragedies that he cannot handle.
If even one child becomes better because of my persistence, then all my efforts are worthwhile! This film deeply portrays every little detail and hardships of the teaching profession. It’s not just a story about one teacher but a mirror reflecting the dedication and perseverance of every teacher. We hope that through this film, we can pay the highest respect to all teachers silently working in education, sparking greater awareness and respect for education and teachers, and together, rekindling the passion and dignity of teachers before it’s too late.
Taku feels like he is incompatible with this world. But one day, he wakes up to discover that all his dissatisfactions no longer exist.
Gigi and Marlene, two single women both in their late 20's, work at a bio-technology company, researching and developing medicine to suppress specific genes and observe their effects on the human body. Gigi is born with the "clean-freak" gene and her obsession with keeping things tidy causes problems in her relationships. Marlene, on the other hand, is born with the "fat gene" and needs to regularly take pills to maintain her weight. Marlene panics when she learns that her "anti-fat" pills will be taken off the market. Their personal problems coincide with romantic ones. Marlene grows frustrated maintaining her long-distance relationships via the Internet, and Gigi leaves her boyfriend when she discovers he's cheating on her.
In 1990, college student Ing, who accidently gets pregnant, returns to Lishan to spend the summer with her father. Ing notices the conflicts between her father and the farmers. She meets a young farmer Wen, and affection slowly grows between them. As summer ends, Ing leaves, and no one knows what the future will hold. To promote a new fertilizer, Ing's father gets a hot-air balloon, but hard as they try, it just can't fly.
A rookie filmmaker on a TV production set tries to survive a constraining environment where people don't respect her boundaries. During the wrap party, she begins to process what she experienced.
Yu Tien Lung returns to his hometown to avenge the murder of his parents, a task in which he is prepared himself for by studying martial arts for twenty years. His resolution wavers when, after successfully killing the lesser villains, he falls in love with the daughter of the enemy. Will he now be able to take revenge for his parents’ murder?
After losing contact with each other for years, the son finds out that his father is homeless. During the night of their reunion, the two try to figure out their relationship and their opposing identities.
Mu-shin, once a single mother, suffered from the loss of her blind little girl, who passed away three years ago. Working as a masseuse and living as a social outcast following the accident, she stopped caring and believing in anything. Her life remained meaningless until the day the same genetic disease which caused her daughter to go blind started to plague her life. Without knowing the real reason, she subconsciously refused to undergo treatment. As Mu-shh gradually lost her eyesight, she started to use her sense of touch to communicate with the rest of the world. As her world grows darker, she realizes her reason for stepping into the darkness is not a means to an end, but a meaningful beginning of something new.
Teenagers Jielong and Tangmi secretly love each other, but Tangmi vanishes after they spend a night out together. Jielong has to turn back to focus on his studies and enter university. Unexpectedly, Tangmi resurfaces with a newborn baby.
Tzu Ch'iang and Yu Fen fall in love, however Tzu Ch'iang is married yet. One day, his wife comes back from the village. Yu Fen reveals the truth and goes away angrily. After seven years, she brings back their son to look for him and ask him to take care of their son. Unfortunately, everything is changed after happening of traffic accident...
Real Online plays a game with online games. The world of the game can be left if wished and the real world can enter the computer game. This is the world of the game Ideal Online. In this, figures walk round like the burly Charlie Boy and the spirited Cherry Lips. In this way, the real world is confronted with the logic of the game, in which for instance violence has a very different value and meaning than in the real world.
Taiwanese action-drama film.
The "Lost Generation" is an obsolete term against the Land of the Brave, in which the younger generation awakens to the fact that their community and their nation are in need of their dedication for brighter prospects. Permeated with enchanting music and campus folk songs, the film will surely animate lofty sentiments of movie-goers.
Those days were scoured between high-tide and low-tide. However, Sen always remember that the gravity of being stuck in the sand.When she raised her head, Fish and Mai were walking ahead.The sea breeze blew their backs into a mess, and she couldn't see those clearly. She yearned to get a little closer so much. We all are winds, rolling each other to dance together. And what we had, was the best moment in my life.
Crime / drama movie
On a Saturday morning, Shan and Xuan have a fight over a missing item. The story gradually unveils the true aspects of each individual when the issues inevitably surface.
Two halves of a treasure map owned by two brothers is the one thing that the Golden Dragon Gang wants to get, and they'll kill anyone who gets in their way. When the gang quickly dispenses with the two brothers in a blitz home invasion, their third brother, returning from ten years of wandering, arrives and teaches the gang a lesson they'll never forget--that is, if they survive at all! Henchman after henchman gets filleted like a brook trout as our hero literally cuts his way through a jungle of sword-wielding thugs, a trio of fancy-weapon gang leaders, and a masked ninja assassin that's killing people on both sides. Who will be left alive to claim the treasure? Find out in this high body-count wuxia classic.
Two engineering prodigies’ love and despair unveil through a road trip from San Francisco to Vegas. It opens with a mysterious suicide but ends with one of the character’s choice to go on living: to bear the burdens of their fate and the memory of the beloved, like a spent bullet.
A french TV crew breaks into a Taiwanese family in Taipei for a real TV program during a weekend. After a short thought and seducing by the possible winnings, Lin's family accepts to be followed by the cameraman Pierre for two days. Little by little, Pierre's camera has become a new way of communication in this family. Everyone delivers their way of life and thinking, and maybe a little secret.
On the last night of Mercury retrograde, the gang rookie Hao suffered a series of accidents and was forced to assassinate his benefactor. Hao blamed all this on Mercury retrograde, and hoped that Mercury retrograde would pass quickly…
Two groups of knife-wielding and kicking women in bikinis join forces to kill a gang boss responsible for killing their fathers. But they're not very effective. After three attacks on the culprit, the worst damage he suffered was having his ankle run over by a motorbike. Closer co-operation with a casino boss may help.
1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February Incident.
In an old photography studio, an old man and a group of young men meet. The old man has seen everything, but is determined to live a full life until the very end. The young men have just begun their lives, but feel aimless, lost and insecure. One man's story is ending, while the young men's stories are just beginning. Between their differences, a lesson on life is found.
After finding a box of kittens above his unstable parents' apartment, teenager Kuo-Yen finds a terrifying way to cheat his exams.
A naive high school boy and his school crush, sneak into the campus late at night to steal the exam answers. The boy wishes to use this opportunity to confess his love. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with the legendary school ghost.
In Chinese folklore a white snake symbolizes a woman, especially an evil type of woman, while a black bull typifies a man, robust, strong and virile. "Black Bull and White Snake", a film version of Young Nien-ts'u's best-selling novel of the same title, is exactly about a white snake-woman, having been sold into prostitution at an early age, is rescued by a black bull of a man only to fall back into the gutter again. A production from the Grand Motion Picture Company, "Black Bull and White Snake" stars Chiang Ching and newcomer Tien Yeh.
For a long time, a modest village lives in terror because of the raids of a bunch of bandits. Miners and farmers, wanting to avoid the worst, decide to outsource all their savings to Tang's bank. These men are directly attacked by Zatoichi's intervention, a blind man who is an expert swordsman despite his infirmity, and Bruce Wong, a young fighter who returns to the village after three years of exile. At a later time, Tang finds that the bandits know all their moves because they are informed by a traitor. Suspects seem to be Ju Ju, a prostitute and cabaret singer, however, when the girl is killed by the brigands, the real culprit is revealed as Kian Chan, the bank counselor. Bruce and Zatoichi vow to kill him...
A warrior from the underworld and his assistant enter the human realm to try and destroy the fox spirit that has been terrorizing their tribe. After the warrior gets injured and loses his sword the kindly village doctor and his daughter take him in. Then bad things start happening to the village - livestock killed, babies snatched, people murdered. The villagers are suspicious of the stranger. He needs to find his sword and kill the fox to rid two worlds of its evil.
A film produced by Taiwan Film Studio, which celebrated for the centenary of Chinese railroading.
Both Yi-Chieh and her boyfriend, Cheng Yang, were in the swim team of the school. She doesn’t want sympathy from others when she found out that her boyfriend has cheated on her
The story is set in a small southern town at the beginning of the century, where people believed that innocence and hope would lead to a better tomorrow.
A mother and daughter are haunted by sinister 'Elder-Graphics'.
Frances and Rin flee to an abandoned restroom, with Rin hurriedly trying to wash her hands; they are drug dealers struggling to survive. Unfortunately, they encountered a violent man. Rin stabbed the man to death to protect Frances, and the two had no choice but to run away…
Yuxin chats with friends at a café about the recent days of being single again, recalling the conclusion of her relationship with Yitian . The two had a prolonged standoff, wanting to avoid any regrets. To ensure closure, they composed a breakup checklist and tackled each item before parting ways. Eventually, they drove to the seaside one night, gazing at the vast, dark ocean. As they counted down their final moments together, the sunrise slowly emerged, just like the gradual end of their relationship.
Cherry identified herself as a drag queen. She just had a fight right before the show, finding out her boyfriend had been cheating sleeping with another girl for a long time. Later, she pulled herself together and walked on her way to work, she met with an abandoned baby. When she was performing sparkly on the stage with her close sister, Lena, they discovered something weird about this baby… The baby that intruded Cherry’s life at the night has given her a short fantasy of having an ordinary family with a child. Yet once again, it reminded her and Lena with a cruel reality of their actual life. This is a journey about a drag queen exploring herself with an abandoned baby at an unconventional night. It is also a story about the searching of one’s the sense of belonging and one’s own.
It's a simple story of how a blind person uses his own way to take care of a 6 yrs old little girl. The movie shows a colorful and sporty blind people's world through this little girl's eyes.
A stolen missile design, miniaturised and hidden within a pair of sunglasses, is smuggled through Macau. Rival intelligence networks converge to intercept the device, triggering a covert operation of infiltration, counterintelligence, and complex technological espionage amid a rapidly escalating international spy war.
