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Taiwanese movie
In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. As rain pours down relentlessly, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This results in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him.
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. In the story, the kindly and very efficient Chinese settlers are distrusted by the natives until they show that they are able and willing to cure an outbreak of plague. The daughter of the native Taiwanese chief has her own peace plan for the region, which involves finding the most eligible Chinese bachelor and marrying him.
The story revolves around a blind music student who excels at piano but faces hardships due to his disability, and an aspiring dancer who works at a bubble tea store. Their friendship becomes mutually uplifting as they pursue their dreams.
Three key events during three different time periods, in three seasons, and on three nights culminate to change the life of Zhang Dong Ling.
In the Hive, love blooms amidst a brutal struggle for survival. Ian and Lily face Monsters and perils to escape, with their fate intertwined with a sacrifice that challenges the depths of their love and haunts their journey forever.
A brothel disguised as a teahouse is staffed with old ladies long past their prime. However, things begin to change and become chaotic when the owner takes in a young girl.
After her mother died, the youngest daughter has been dreaming about her dead mother for nights. In the dreams, her mother expresses her will not to be buried next to her dead husband. On the seventh night after the mother’s death, the hidden past of the family was finally revealed.
After his release, Boss Xiu finds his gang unfamiliar. LaYa, the new leader, embraces flashy businesses to fit the times. Unsettled by his friend‘s Cloud Memorial Hall, Xiu resists the new world, gaining a new understanding of life.
The heads of the six schools of martial arts do battle with the demon warrior Mo Kuei, but no sooner do they emerge victorious than a group of demons known only as "The Unfriendly" slaughter the six masters and make off with Mo Kuei's body. It is now up to a group of heros to stop The Unfriendly from using the spirit of Mo Kuei in order to gain possession of the wish-granting Stone of Heaven
A one-day car trip of a woman and a stranger girl involves a journey of self-awakening.
Xiao-xiao, who has ADHD, is the troublemaker in her class. But there's another complication: her mother, Wei-fang, and her homeroom, Paul, have started a romantic relationship after discussing her ADHD.
Room 12 is a place where people leave their final wills. A boy arrives at Room 12 and meets the owner of the place. They have a strange encounter and each of them understand more about what the other is thinking about.
A-Ding couldn't let go her feelings for Chih-Yun. She ran to the gas station Chih-Yun worked at and tried to make up with her. But A-Ding's persistence and willfulness made it awkward. The only thing she could do is to leave alone.
A deadly virus outbreak puts a hospital in total lockdown, and various people trapped in the crisis must confront a deluge of agonizing choices.
On a planet where a long-standing martial law prevailed, the earthman living in exchange for time, strictly adhered to discipline and worked tirelessly. One day, they were invaded by the Devil's Party from the “Funkmi Galaxy”, where indulgence and obscenity rules day and night, posing an unprecedented threat to the Earthman’s morals. Meanwhile, the Space Worriers from the same Funkmi Galaxy were determined to protect these hardworking creatures at all costs.
At a fishing village, plans for the expansion of a nearby oil refinery cause a big stir, triggering a three-way power struggle between an old protester, villagers, and factory representatives.
Taiwanese horror anthology film.
Ann and Mimi come across A-kai, a guy waiting for a mysterious on-call work. They hit it off right away. Yet, not getting what they want, they end up getting involved in a crime due to circumstances beyond their control.
Women of different ages, nationalities and sexualities gather in the titular establishment, sharing drinks, laughter and fragments of their lives under soft blue light. As their stories intersect like stars in a constellation, the film explores themes of self-identity and human connection before the women part ways at dawn.
May is worried about her mother and father, whose marriage is on the rocks, and she yearns to return to the woods where her grandfather lives. One day, May befriends a boy as lonely as she is. When reality catches up, they run away to a beautiful world that belongs only to them.
Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans living in present-day Malaysia. While the older brother, a deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of poverty, his younger sibling burns with indignation. A brutal accident upsets the fragile balance of their relationship.
A man about to become a father sells his old house. A woman learning to be a mother buys a new one. In the empty house where an agave grows by the window, their pasts intersect.
Taiwanese horror.
C, a withdrawn girl, suspects that her new roommate Amber has been secretly entering her room. Unable to confront her face to face, C begins observing Amber from afar. Hoping to get closer without revealing herself, she dials the phone in her room and starts an anonymous conversation.
An honourable carriage driver finds love and death when he battles particularly homicidal street punks
Follows the lives of two big stars in Taiwan. Since a failed spine surgery 40 years ago, Lee Pei-jing, known as the “Moon singer”, has been confined to a wheelchair. Actor Chang Feng is reaching one hundred years old. Tsai describes Chang as a tree, which looks ever more beautiful as it grows old.
Shaw Legend Chi Kuan Chun is the Hung Kuen Fist master who trains an undercover agent known as Queen Bee. His brutal style of Kung Fu comes in handy when the Queen Bee takes on the villains. Authentic Hung Gar Style action presented!
Hoping to make a viral video by streaming a mysterious rope ritual, a couple falls into a deadly curse instead that turns their lives upside down.
17-year-old Sheng is fascinated by photography. He not only takes photos but makes his own films. In fact, Sheng has been bullied by his schoolmates.
An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is about to appear in.
Mr.Huang, a truck driver who is legally the guardian, travels north to accompany his daughter, whom he hasn't seen for many years, to apply for a student loan for her university education. He pretends to have forgotten to bring his identification card, hoping to use this as an opportunity to spend more time with his daughter.
A man chooses to leave the city and goes back to his hometown in the countryside. However, he finds that his dream of being a farmer is shattered as the property developers have flocked into this small town in Southern Taiwan. Consequently, the farmland is taken over by holiday homes and villas, which not only look incongruous in the landscape but have destroyed the serenity. A woman who left home lives in one of the villas. She has been trapped in the house both physically and mentally until she meets the man. Their encounter is about to change everything…
Blackie Ko is framed for murder and rape by a corrupt mayor who wants to protect his wayward son, who was the real culprit of the crime. Enter undercover cop Tong Lung, who discovers the truth about the frame up. He, then frees Blackie and together they wage war on the mayor and his army of fighters.
Wireless signals, like a digital fog, blanket the concrete jungle. Each phone connects a sleepless, loveless soul. In this chain of late-night calls, relationships and conflicts twist and spread, linking people by their desires and ultimately separating them by the same force. Perhaps some relations are never meant to last, only to touch us, once, like morning light.
Sister Winnie, facing a growing-up challenge, and her ninja-aspiring brother Yoyo start a chaotic adventure over a coveted brown sugar candy. When Yoyo tries his ninja trick, things go hilariously wrong. As accidents pile up, he uncovers the truth behind Winnie’s hidden injury—can he save her in time?
A-He, who has intellectual disability, always hangs out with bad students. Class leader Jie volunteers to be A-He's tutor. She keeps persuading A-He to study hard and be a decent person as they spend more time together.
騰遠相隔了二十年,帶著懷有五個月的妻子回到台灣尋親。 眷村與夜市是他最深刻的記憶圖騰, 但滄海桑田、人事全非, 騰遠只憑著當初小學二年級匆匆離開時, 書包裡的一篇還沒有交出去的作文「我的爸爸」的內容開始按圖索驥, 尋找八歲以前他生命中的回憶…… 到底,騰遠是否能順利找回他失聯已久的父親與哥哥呢?
Zhao Tianju and Yimei are married lovers and live a sweet life. Unfortunately, under the arrangement of the detective Ho, who secretly loves Yimei, Tianju is planted into drug trafficking, extorted confession into punishment, and then imprisoned. Interpol He took advantage of the opportunity to occupy Iraq and the United States, and then lived in the same room. After Tianju was released from prison, he was threatened by criminal police. No company dared to hire him. After losing his beloved, Tianju was hitting a wall everywhere. He was forced to join his prison friend Hong and live in the country, and with Hong's sister Lingling. Have an intimate relationship. At the same time, Yimei forced Interpol He to divorce his wife and marry her. Interpol He bit his head and went back to the country to find his wife and asked for a divorce. When his wife refused, he killed his wife and children, destroyed the body and cooked it into Bak Kut Teh and without his father, sold Bak Kut Teh Noodles...
Taiwanese film about the dark days of the Cultural Revolution and the young people who were destroyed by it, centered on a group of students who perform Nikolai Gogol’s play The Inspector General.
Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a suicide helpline.
Beginning in the spring of 2024 and bidding farewell in 2025, Sodagreen 20th Anniversary Concert Tour. A four-sided stage of seasons, a dual X-shaped corridor of light between heaven and earth, Awakening in the sunlight, restless in the frenzy, melancholy in the stories, and magnificent in what remains unfinished. Within the magical cube of Taipei Arena, moments become eternal, capturing the past and present of twenty years.
This winter, the boy has become very strange. He bursts out in anger, throws random tantrums, and refuses to play with his classmates. Everyone seems to know the reason, but no one is brave enough to approach him. After school, the boy retreats deep into the forest. There lies his happiest and saddest secret...
Composed of three separate stories, the film vividly portrays Taiwan during the cold war period when the country developed its economy with help from the United States.
Shaw Brothers star Wang Yu plays Ho Gang, a competent swordsman who takes a job as a hired assassin. Though reluctant he ends up becoming highly successful, but he is wary as one of his targets is killed before he can fulfill the contract, leading him to suspect that he is being double crossed.
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.
Cram school, concerts, capsule machines, arcades—Ning and Rou, the both of us, now and the future, a decade from now. The sound of fireworks—just like fireworks.
Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood.
An adaptation of Tao Lin’s beloved cult novel "Taipei". As one relationship collapses, another blooms for Erin, swept into the world of Paul Chen, a mysterious, charismatic author. When he proposes documenting every aspect of their courtship in an epic laptop-filmed “documentary”, the couple enter into a performative bad romance, fueled by substances and sleepless nights.
After losing her job as a garment worker, Ling sees her prospects dim dramatically: in her mid forties, she lives in a small, dilapidated apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung and spends much of her time locked in arguments with her testy daughter. Her elderly mother is ailing in hospital. On one of her many visits to the ward she notices an injured man and tentatively starts to care for him.
A descendant of an ancient tea tribe heads to Taiwan to look for the legendary black tea to break the curse of a tribal rivalry. Meanwhile, in an "underground tea market" somewhere in Taiwan that sells rare expensive tea from around the world, tribe members have other motives up their sleeves regarding the black tea legacy. Each for their own cause, rival tribal members become tangled up in a web of love and hate.
On a small island, the indigenous Da’o people live in harmony with the Pacific. Their love for the sea prompts 19-year-old Vongnyan to enlist in the navy. Returning broken, he confides his traumas to the waves during bouts of insomnia. His younger brother, Bo, plays and lives in the water, completely carefree, yet he, too, will soon have to choose his future.
Xiangning's only son Zhongze shows abnormal behaviors and claims he is the incarnation of god, Xiangning is convinced he can be modified by force of Lien-Shi, her religious group. With enormous stress and obsession, she enters into a mysterious space.