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Chuan, a quiet 30-year-old man working as a chef in a Japanese restaurant, collapses suddenly and is rushed to a hospital. His colleagues send him to his father, who resides in the mountains. While there, Chuan becomes immobile: he won’t speak, eat or even go to the toilet on his own. One day his father returns from work only to find Chuan sitting in the corner with his daughter lying dead in a pool of blood. In an unfamiliar, eerily calm voice, Chuan says, “I saw this body was empty, so I moved in.

Tang Bohu for a generation of flamboyant characters, concubines eight, but also everywhere in love. Once on the way to meet the pretty girl Qiu Xiang was her beauty absolutely produced face attraction, surprised by the heavenly beings. After the temple to meet the gods, Qiu Xiang looked back with a smile, the Tang Bohu to see the soul of the crazy; Bohu determined, vowed to win the return of the beauty. In order to get close to the beauty, Bohu does not sell himself in the House of Tai Shi as a servant.

A dying forest flared up and the flavor of damp ruin, settled in on the tongue: Tsai Ming Liang created an entirely novel artwork with his tenth feature film 'Stray Dogs' at the Museum MoNTUE. Moving images eclipsed, in slivers and swathes, by immovable shadows of deadwood. Waking, sleep and everything in between proved indistinguishable. This documentary recreates elements of existential banality (on view) and guides focus inward. It establishes a firm, if converse, analog between cinema and consciousness: an interplay of movie (and its constituent elements of light, shadow and audience) mirrored in consciousness (and its building blocks of waking, sleep and dream) if you will.

9 years-old Yu and 15 years-old Guei are half-sisters living without their parents. Guei always takes good care of Yu like a mother, however it leads Yu to be teased by her classmates. One day, to protect the status of Yu's real mother in her heart, Yu accidentally hurts Guei.

A doctor marries his patient without his parents' approval. His parents trick him into marrying a girl of their choice. Meanwhile, his first wife gives birth to a baby girl and waits for his return.

Two reserved strangers form an unspoken mutual crush as they share their daily elevator rides to work, but misunderstanding ensues as they dare not talk to each other.

Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival.

Blacky, a “BEAUTY MOLECULE” within the very old song "Pretty Baby", has had enough of his invisible and floaty existence! He lives within the song, in a void, never to be seen. However, whomever appreciates said song, is open be parasitized upon. The entity could then take over the host's brain, influencing their taste, style and preference at every turn. The problem? Nobody likes this old song. However, Holly is one exception. Heartbroken after a being dumped for her "old school taste", her brain was left open for Blacky's entrance, embarking them both on a journey that'll change their lives forever...

In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.

Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.

Focusing on Mark Lee Ping-bin, one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers in Asia, the movie details the itinerant lifestyle of a deeply observant and philosophical artist and the tolls that his profession takes on his family life.

Part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.

A satirical comedy about a country bumpkin who goes to the big city, and ends up teaching the cynical city folk a few lessons about basic human decency. The hero leaves home for the first time to go to Shanghai, to collect his lottery prize - a brand new apartment. However, when he arrives, he is told by the developers that his apartment block will take a year and a half to complete. He decides to find a job in Shanghai and wait for his apartment to materialise...

Tao Kai, a graduate of the University of Music, is forced to take over the position of chairman of the board because his wife's father has died. Because he has opened a branch office in Taipei, he meets a resident singer, Fang Qi, and they fall in love. Tao Kai decides to divorce his wife, Pei Wen, but he never expects that Fang Qi's sister and Pei Wen's father have an unusual relationship and that Fang Qi's sister will end her life because of her shame to Pei Wen. Fangqi's sister ended her life because she was ashamed of Peiwen, and Fangqi needed to recuperate for a short time because she was too stimulated. At that time, Peiwen also lost her eyesight because of her eye problem. Tao Kai went back to see Peiwen, and Fangqi also left. After three years, Tao Kai went back to visit Pei Wen again, but he didn't realise that Pei Wen was still waiting for him. Tao Kai had no face to go back and said goodbye to Pei Wen.

The fourth film of the 5-film series The Best Secret Agent series of taiyupian (Taiwanese-language cinema), which was also dubbed into a Mandarin version.

Chow Lueng (Lo Leih) and Meng Ho (Wong Tao) are thief catching constables, who roam the land capturing criminals with ease.

A young man, very talented in the martial arts, appears in a troubled part of the country and rids it of brigandry with his fighting skills. His sloppy dress and fondness for wine earns him the title of Idiot Swordsman. But his true identity remains a mystery.

With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, his third film in two years. As with A Drifting Life and Murmur of Youth, Lin’s new film delicately unfolds, gradually building to a climax of stunning emotional reverberations. Drawn from a particularly painful episode in the director’s past, Sweet Degeneration delves into the uneasy bonds a brother and sister have with each other and the people around them.

Raised in a broken family, Cat runs away from home as a teenager to escape her stepfather. In high school, she begins living with boyfriend Liam, but puppy love eventually ends in betrayal. While Liam is in the army, Cat, feeling lonely and poor, meets an older man through the Internet; Xiao Gu is looking for sex, Cat is looking for money. From lust comes love, until Cat discovers Xiao Gu is actually married. After ten years of ups and downs, Cat begins anew at age 28 when she meets the rich and kind-hearted Sunshine, but is he really her heart's final home?

Chung has been looking after his retarded older brother for decades, but finds out he has a girlfriend. A storm begins to brew in between the brothers...

Turn Around is based on the story of Cheng-chung Wang, a passionate Taiwanese teacher who has won multiple educational awards. After graduating from the National Kaohsiung Normal University, he is assigned to teach at a school located at the rural Zhongliao in Nantou County, which is lacking in educational resources. As he is preparing to leave at the end of his assignment, the area is met with the deadly 921 earthquake. Seeing the students breaking down in tears and asking for his return, Wang decides to stay with the school to improve the education of the students.

Story from Qiong Yao's novella collection "Shui Ling"

A-Gu enlists a group of contract killers in the disguise of laundry service. One of them, code-named "No.1 Qingtian Street", is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. He seeks help from Lin Hsiang, a psychic.

Mark, a rookie in a global marketing enterprise, is weary of his repetitive job and challenging workplace infightings. Exhausted by overtime hours, Mark even has an illusion of the Grim Reaper. One day, Mark’s colleague mistakes him for the grandson of the biggest shareholder of the company. Mark is promoted and assigned to go on a business trip with his assistant Emma, whom he forms a strong attachment with. Mark is willing to risk everything to maintain the lie. However, the company gets involved in an insider trading scandal. What will Mark do to tackle the crisis?

A boy learns Tae Kwon Do in order to defeat the gangsters threatening his family and the man who killed his father.

John Woo's melodramatic tragicomedy The Time You Need a Friend (1985) stands at the crucial crossroads in the director's career. Woo had been churning out innocuous comedies for more than a few years, and after establishing the "heroic bloodshed" genre, he'd never look back. But this tale of two comedians - estranged former pals who bury the hatchet for one last show together - blends the pathos and male-bonding of Woo's later dramas with the silliness and pratfalls that marked his early works. At their peak, Ku Ren and Shem Bien were an unstoppable screen comedy team, the undisputed stars of the silent era. But a major falling out has kept the duo offstage for decades. Despite the urgings of family and friends, Ku and Shem refuse to reconcile. As both men approach their twilight years, one last chance for a reunion presents itself in the form of a televised charity benefit. Ku Ren and Shem Bien struggle to come to terms with years of bitterness, and bring the house down once again.

Taiwanese erotic film.

A ruthless warlord is using his poisonous palm to kill Ming Patriots, and only the Kung Fu Phantom (Wong Tao) has a chance of ending his reign of terror.

shaw production

Ah Bee, a former superstar motorcycle racer who gave up on the sport after a bad fall on the track left him physically and emotionally scarred. Now Ah Bee is a self-loathing, boozing, gambling layabout with a faithful girl named Maniu, a spunky tomboy who cooks his meals, launders his clothes and constantly reminds him of what a loser he is. Of course, she needles him in an adorably sassy way, making her one of those awesome in-the-movies-only girls who'll love a man faithfully even if he's a boozing, gambling layabout.

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.

Zang Guang-xing is a veteran soldier from Mainland China who married a young Taiwanese woman. He has been working as a supervisor in a construction company for seven years. Everyday he rides the same motorbike to work. He suffers enough misery from riding that motorbike, and dreams of buying a car. So he asks around for decent second-hand cars. His son doesn't like any car he chooses. His wife, a typical Taiwanese woman who lives frugally, shaves any penny she can. She is the one who pays for the family's new car. They go out on trips happily, and become the envy of the neighborhood. Zhang thus gets the new car he's always dreamed of, but he starts to worry about it getting dirty, because it's simply too new, too nice for him. The car thus becomes his son's vehicle. He rides the old bike to work again, just like he has during all these years.

The Wu Tang hire a formidable leg fighter Kao to fight the Saholin Loyalist Hu Hui Chien

It's the 10th century BC, the emperor is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist "Immortal Li" are in reality only making him worse.

Our main protagonist seeks a lucrative position at a global corporation. He is challenged to go against his principles by the other candidates. Will he choose to stand-up against the group?

Deng Deng (meaning “wait a little”) is born a street kitten. Knowing his siblings be adopted one by one but he was left alone, he decided to find himself a “servant” who would serve him for the rest of his life. Dengdeng then found Lu Chun Hsiang, who has a kind heart. Since then Lu and Deng Deng embarked on a journey with unimaginable human-animal communication skills. Together they solved many pets’ bizarre needs and wild behaviors such as their predatory instinct, how the pets names actually affect their own personalities and the enviness from their owners’ partners. They also jointly looked into the dogs who let down by humans in the shelter, and the pain and sorrow the pets feel when they are parted from their long-loved owners.

Two petty adolescent street urchins Lo and Lung become inseparable sworn brothers who survive the cruelty of the streets. They are separated after Lo gets caught by the law trying to steal food. Years later, Lung grows up to be an enforcer for a gambling syndicate not knowing that it also fronts as a narcotics ring. To contrast Lo is raised in a law enforcement household and is sent out to investigate drug activity in the region. They reunite under a fragile alliance on the opposite sides of the law as their interests spiral into collusion. Things turn deadly after drug boss Ma retaliates by having Lo's stepfather killed and framing Lung for the deed.

The whole story revolves around a woman from marriage, marriage to divorce encounter sexual problems as the main axis, reflecting the Taiwan society in this regard subjective and objective taboos. The first paragraph of the description of the actress Xiao Xiaomin arranged with the parents of the scholar if strong engagement after the agreement with the high school students often travel, and finally cancel the engagement. The second paragraph to write her marriage in order to fight for a wounded into her young Wu Dawei testify to her husband's misunderstanding, but also the end of the divorce. The third paragraph to write her commitment to kindergarten education work to recognize the disabled young boy odd, she did not dare to face the problem of love, but the other's cheerful outlook touched her.

Ghost comedy from Taiwan.

Tsi-bing, a wealthy entrepreneur, loses his loving wife and all his properties due to the scheme of his conniving mistress. Unbeknownst to him, his precocious and sweet daughter sells rice dumplings secretly at night to help her family through this ordeal⋯

A Taiwan movie about first love.

The misadventures of a family of sex maniacs

When he’s not tending bar and performing lead in a choreographed rollerblade floorshow at the local hotspot, disdainfully flipping off his mother’s latest lay, or sleeping with the girlfriend of his wealthy, four-wheeled rival, rollerboy Cheng Tung-chuen is tearing up the Taipei streets with his rollerpals, which is how he witnesses hitman Billy Chow kill three other hitmen and light the bodies on fire, but since he has no father figure in his life, he ends up spending the night at Billy’s because Billy feels really bad about his career and just wants to fall in love with supercop Yvonne Yung Hung.

Taiwanese romantic comedy.

A young college student goes to work in the country after graduation and falls in love with a girl there, where they start to raise a family but experience relationship problems because of their different backgrounds.

“Siaulian”, who is released from prison and trying to turn his life back to track, runs into his childhood friend Tang, now a police officer, in a gang fight. Siaulian is wanted by the gangs since he has been made the one responsible for the fight. Siaulian is forced to form his own gang in order to protect his family and seek revenge. Eventually, he is wanted by both the gangsters and the police. As for Tang, he is struggling to protect his dearest friend as he is actually the reason why Siaulian was sentenced to prison.

The ghost of a murdered (beheaded) woman recruits other creatures of the night to join her crusade against the ancestors of the man who killed her. Mindless, low-budget thrill show with vampires, zombies and ghosts attacking lots of victims. Eventually, the exorcist priests (Kara Hui, Ku Feng) find ways of exterminating the various supernatural entities

An old fridge and three sensitive women in an old flat. A mysterious sound starts to spread across the flat, echoing their inner world.

Martian arts film from Taiwain directed by Kim Lung.

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab in a well fortified valley.