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For a few years, Tshan-tsui and his wife enjoyed a loving marriage. However, Tshan-tsui’s recent long hours at work have left his wife feeling neglected. Suspecting he might be having trouble in the bedroom, she embarks on a series of strategies to boost his virility. But when all her efforts fail, her thoughts turn to the possibility of another woman. Her neighbor, Mrs.Iap, offers one last piece of advice—a surefire plan to make Tshan-tsui pay attention to his gorgeous wife!

This short documentary portrays Chang Yingwu (1921–1984), a man whose extraordinary body became a site where medicine, spectacle, and state power intersected. Born in Beijing and later relocated to Taiwan, Chang lived with acromegaly, reaching a height far beyond ordinary human scale. Once exhibited, later enlisted, and eventually turned into a public figure through sport and media, his life traces how an anomalous body is disciplined, displayed, and normalized by social institutions. Filmed with restraint rather than sensationalism, the work observes Chang’s daily gestures and silences, allowing his presence to expose the fragile boundary between individuality and social gaze.

Rich man Xu Huitang got close to his special nurse Fang Feili, which caused a misunderstanding with his wife and left for the United States with their daughter.

A woman discovers a magical sword, which enables her to learn the deepest secrets of the Dragon Kung-Fu school.

The “Sai Jhu Gong” (賽豬公, Sacred Pig Competition) is a major annual ritual associated with the Sansia Ancestor Master Temple (三峽祖師廟), held each year on the sixth day of the first lunar month. This film documents the ceremonial proceedings of the 1973 “Sai Jhu Gong” (賽豬公) observance. Dispensing with narration altogether, the film’s soundscape consists exclusively of Beiguan (北管) music and liturgical recitation (祭儀口白). In terms of audiovisual construction and thematic orientation, the work may be understood as a transitional piece within the folklore-oriented documentary practice of Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂), situated between the more conventionally structured The Homecoming Pilgrimage of Dajia Mazu (大甲媽祖回娘家, 1974) and the more formally experimental The Boat Burning Festival (王船祭典, 1979).

Taiwanese movie

Archive / Lee Guang-Hui is a 30-minute compilation film assembled from footage independently preserved by Chang Chao-Tang between 1975 and 1979 during his work as a television cameraman. Documenting the final years of Lee Guang-Hui—an Indigenous Taiwanese former Japanese soldier who lived in isolation in Indonesia for nearly three decades after World War II—the film traces his return to Taiwan, brief media exposure, and death. Neither a conventional documentary nor a completed historical account, the work functions as an unfinished archive, juxtaposing official rituals, media spectacle, and moments of silence to expose the erasure of subjectivity and the unresolved fractures of postwar history.

A wizard vampire haunts a number of warriors. He has several zombie servants. The warriors must defeat both threats.

Ghost story.

Taiwanese drama film.

Hsu Feng plays Shu Mei, the female assassin engaged to Ling Tien-yu, a swordsman played by Tien Peng. As they are fighting against the Mongolian army that is invading China, Shu Mei takes up a suicidal mission to assassinate the Mongolian chieftain. Again, Hsu Feng appears as a brave swordswoman in the film. In the beginning, she sacrifices her love life and then dressed in white, she fights with dual blades, chains and bare hands against the enemy. Hsu Feng not only shows great fighting skills but brings the character vividly to life. It is not surprising that she won Best Leading Actress at the 1976 Golden Horse Awards. Moreover, the impressive face-changing trick is seen in the film.

Hong Kong movie

Taiwanese movie

Featuring plenty of high-kicking, fist-flying action, a martial arts classic from the vaults of Hong Kong cinema. Summoning his skills to defeat a troublesome local thug, a martial arts student (Barry Chan) emerges victorious. But when his enemy retaliates by trying to rape a female classmate, it's definitely time for a rematch. Chan Wai Lau and Liu Ping co-star.

Shot by Chang Chao-Tang and cinematographer Christopher Doyle, The Boat Burning Festival captures the ceremony worshipping Wangye（王爺）, the local god of plague, held every three years in Sucuo Village（蘇厝） in Tainan（台南）, Taiwan. Chang timed the work to "Ommadawn", a Celtic-inspired progressive rock album by Mike Oldfield. Defying genre conventions and deviating stylistically from television or ethnographic documentary, the film testifies to the tense and complex coexistence of traditional rites, local folklore, and discourses about modernisation and identity in 1970s Taiwan.

Due to a drought that has occurred only once in a hundred years, the people of the Gaeryong and Gangho regions are plunged into misery. Upon this, Great Master Baekseong urges Geum-bung to find the Night-Glowing Pearl. Geum-bung meets Jung-yong, who was born as a dragon and was then transformed into a human, and sets off for the Gaeryong region to help him obtain the Night-Glowing Pearl and save the people. The film is a South Korean remake of a Taiwanese film titled Sea Gods and Ghosts, which this film also pilfers footage from.

Taiwanese movie

A young scholar is asked by a woman ghost to bring her back to the world where she wants to take her revenge on her killers.

The love bug strikes two young sisters at about the same time. Since the two sisters happen to be in love with the same person, chaos and confusion is brought into their once serene home.

Taiwanese fantasy film.

Once essential on rainy days in Taiwan, the handcrafted oil-paper umbrella from Meinung,was not only a symbol of local craftsmanship but also a major source of livelihood. However, as Taiwan rapidly shifted toward an industrial and commercial economy in the 1980s, mass-produced plastic umbrellas replaced these meticulously made paper ones. What was once a daily necessity gradually became a nostalgic cultural artifact. Today, a handful of long-established artisans continue to follow traditional methods. With patience and precision, they craft each umbrella by hand. Though its original function has faded, their emotional bond with the craft remains unchanged. Their dedication and skilled workmanship reflect a deep-rooted respect for materials and tradition, preserving a vanishing heritage one umbrella at a time.

A judge observes the letter of the law, doesn't take bribes and will sentence a prince to death if necessary. And that's just what happens...

A masked fighter kills members of the Dragon clan who were practicing a rare form of martial arts in the monastery and took the secret manual now hunt is on to retrieve the manual and bring the killer to justice.

Taiwan movie

Taiwanese movie

More chicanery from the Chinese underworld, hard man Shi Chung Tien takes on a multitude of tirades and their fighters in an effort to clear his name.

Fei Lung kills his boss in a mining accident. After serving a jail sentence, he returns to his village and finds his former girl friend married to Ju Hu. Ju Hu has gambled his family's fortune. He then sells his house and land for more gambling money. He loses it all, after being cheated, and is then beaten to death by gangsters. Fei Lung is captured and framed for Ju Hu's murder. He is taken to jail but escapes. After a bloody fight with three gangsters, one of them confesses to killing Ju Hu. There is a tremendous battle between the police and the Gangsters. The Gangsters are defeated and Fei Lung's enemies are killed.

Taiwan movie

Wang Chen, a police of the government, was involved with a murder case and was put in prison. His brother disguised as Pink Panther and saved him from the prison, but then they were attacked by Japanese police.

A short film by Wang Chu-Chin. The first winner of Golden Harvest Award in Taiwan.

As night deepened and all was quiet, Shuming cried out his lover's name, drawing the audience into a whirlpool of memories. He encounters Fang Jiang, a single mother, yet both carry their own unresolved family burdens. Fang Jiang is pursued by the married Wen Sheng, while Shi Ming's wife, Yuan Yuan, though sensing something amiss, feels sympathy for Fang Jiang. The desires, guilt, and realities of married men and women tear at every sensitive heart. This film piles up melodramatic tropes to a breaking point, its devastating impact is astonishing.

A feature film directed by Chi-Ming Lei

The Master of the No Clan School swears revenge after he is crippled illegally in a tournament by a rep from the Iron Fist School run by the Triads. His trained children enter the tournament years later to bring the Iron Fist School to justice.

Bullied by Bí-tin, who also fancies Tshiu-sing, Lē-hun is saved from an assault by Bí-tin’s father, Guân-hìng, revealing a buried past—Guân-hìng once shared a tragic romance with Lē-hun’s mother, Xiumei, which was sabotaged by his wife, Yuejiao. Years later, these intertwined love stories resurface, altering the fates of all involved. Directed by HSIN Chi in his final Taiyupian, with a theme song by Judy ONGG, it poignantly captures the era’s social issues.

This is an unfinished [Shaw Brothers] production entitled THE NOCTURNAL KILLER. It's possibly an aka for the above mentioned THE LITTLE POISONOUS DRAGON. It's just one of many unfinished films that were started at Shaw's and abandoned for whatever reason. With between 40 and 50 movies being scheduled throughout 1971 and 1972, some productions were scrapped, or morphed into an entirely different picture. Curiously, the plot and Shi Szu's attire appears similar to HEROES OF SUNG (1973; it was filmed under different titles as well), a film that did starred the actress and Lo Lieh, but not the Taiwanese actor, An Ping. - coolasscinema.com, Dec 2010

In 1962 China, Japanese warlords hold the power and are wielding it with no regard to ethics or propriety. Two private entities, the Nagoa Isam Transportation Company and the Bai Loon Forwarding Agency, have taken competition to the extreme, wreaking havoc and violence as a means to hold onto whatever sovereignty they may have. Loyalty no longer exists as residents watch out only for their own interests.

In a small village in Tainan, the ritual dance-music tradition “Seven Echoes” survives as both spiritual offering and cultural memory. Through voice-over narration and archival detail, the film traces how this art form is woven into temple festivals, agrarian life, and communal identity — even as modernity threatens its continuity.

A taiyupian co-starred Chang Di, Yang Li-hua and Kang Ding.

Nominee of the 15th Golden Horse Awards

A taiwan short film. Golden Harvest Award Winner.

Six o'clock in the morning was the time when Taiwan's executions of death row criminals was executed in the early years

Horror Action movie from Taiwan.

A mysterious fighter is stalking the country, systematically taking out its greatest martial artists. To save their skins, a motley group of kung fu masters must stand against the unstoppable killing force. Their only hope for survival is to come up with a new fighting technique -- one deadly enough to stop their dogged predator. Carter Wong and kung fu legend Lo Leigh star in this martial arts extravaganza from director Lo Chie.