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A roadside bandit reluctantly agrees to become the muscle for a traveling gambler/cheat. In an attempt to steal from traitorous warlords, they get involved with rebel fighters who hope to use the riches to fund their revolution.
Taiwanese crime drama.
Siao Yu needs a green card. Mario Moretti needs his debts paid. Getting married could solve their problems, or multiply them.
Taiwanese movie
This is a story of two girls whose lives for 16 to 30 intertwined. With flashbacks, they went through the maze of memories and the fog of emotions and realized the moving power of sincerity in depressions and sufferings. Father and daughter, female bonds, straight and homosexual romances are all in this profound story of life.
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The Emperor is under attack by marauders and he is so depressed with his failure to protect his people, that he sees no other option than to kill himself. In his grief, he also decides to maim his daughter by cutting of her arm (there is a long tradition of one armed fighters in Hong Kong cinema). After being maimed, the Princess wanders around trying to enlist help from anyone who will listen to her, but no matter whom she meets they either prove too weak to fight off the marauders or they wind up betraying her. Things take a turn for the surreal when her faithful servant girl cuts off her own arm to impersonate the Princess and dies. The Princess goes crazy until she meets handsome Carter Wong, the gentle brute of a butcher who is caring for his Buddhist nun mother. He promises his mom on her death bed he will marry the now lunatic princess. Serious kicking ensues, including sword wielding women, and some high kicking action from Mr. Carter Wong. Enjoy!
The misadventures of a family of sex maniacs
A-Jay has a special job, trauma cleaner, he has to associate with the unidentified death people every single day. His life is nothing different to being dead.Until the day while he was working, a familiar sound started ringing… Why did A-Jay decide to leave his family? A-Jay who stuck with his life, can he release himself from the past?
Little Han lives in the mountains with his great-grandmother, Auntie Han-hsiao. In rainy days, Little Han sits in front of the fireplace listening to Auntie Han-hsiao’s colorful and mysterious tales. One day he sees an injured and dying sparrow. With sadness, he digs a small cave and buries it.
Hyun-jun, an ordinary postman, is mistakenly arrested as a wanted criminal due to his identical appearance to fugitive Choi Cheol-gu. While struggling to prove his innocence, the real Cheol-gu escapes prison and flees to Taiwan. When Hyun-jun travels there on a reward trip, he is once again mistaken for the criminal and even kidnapped, only to be rescued by tough detective Woo-hee and her partner. As repeated mix-ups lead to comedic chaos, Hyun-jun and Woo-hee grow closer and ultimately team up to catch the real fugitive together.
A collaborative project consisting four young generation of Taiwan directors, and four young foreign directors from Chile, France, Iran, and South Korea.Without being acquainted previously before meeting each other in Taipei, the eight of them shared their life experiences, and then co-wrote and co-directed four short films based on impressions and imaginations of a city.
Hsu Zi Qi is a young woman who lives alone in the city. Lee is the autistic son of Zi Qi's landlady, who tries to free himself from his protective mother. Feng is a shy young builder, who struggles with the constant breakdowns of his car.
Artists contributing to the 1966 Modern Poetry Exhibition included HUANG Hua-cheng, LONG Sih-liang, HUANG Yong-song, and CHANG Chao-tang; each artist chose their favorite modern poems and transformed them into imagery. This film is a time capsule capturing some of the exhibits, as well as the young artists.
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Mother goddess comes to the rescue of the Chinese people when they are attacked by a giant fish and an angry Sea Dragon.
"18 Li"'s wife and children gets killed by the leader of the "Heaven Sect" and its' followers. "18 Li" goes to seek out the killer and to take revenge.
It's the story of a rebellious Japanese-Taiwanese girl (played by Rena Tanaka from “Kitaro”) who gets transported back to ancient times and embarks on an adventure with a Taoist priest and a thief. On the road, the group encounters numerous dangers, stumbling upon a conspiracy involving a powerhungry sorcerer and the corrupt court.
Storm over the Yangtze River tells the true story of undercover intelligence agent "Yangtze Number One" and his colleagues in Jianli County of Hubei Province, who risk their lives to carry out the "Dead Bridge Plan" to secure the "Yangtze 180 Blockade". Li Lihua gives an iconic performance as a strong and charming agent of an intelligence unit, engaging in a risky mission to save her unit chief-cum-lover, who is regarded as a traitor but actually is a double-dealing agent against the Japanese occupation. The film garnered four awards at the 1969 Golden Horse Awards, including Best Leading Actor and Best Leading Actress.
Jointly and respectively directed by King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Pai Ching-Jui, three major Taiwan directors of the 1970s, this film consist of three shorts with the same cast of two actors and one actress, who through reincarnation meet in three different times.
A Taiwanese language film
Obeying the wishes of his mother, a young sojourner heads out to Amsterdam to work for his cousin. Against his better judgment, he joins his cousin in the drug-trade.
Adaptation of Huang Chunming's short story "The Two Signpainters".
A young man and his friend move to Taiwan, believing it to be a land of possibilities, but it's not long before they're accused of being spies.
A 27-year-old pessimistic man is obsessed with how to die, sees himself in a bad situation when a lot of dangerous people want his life. But with his life at stake, how will he get away with it?
When A-nan looks at his paralyzed father in bed with ants crawling all over his body, it brings back painful childhood memories. Can he restore the long-frozen father-son relationship?
The girl spots a snow globe prize at a pinball arcade but spends all her allowance without winning the snow globe. The next day, she experiences the Taoist festival and reunites with her long-absent father. This temporarily reunited family spends a surreal and magical evening during the festival feast.
That maritime accident marked the first encounter between Nawei, the son of a fisherman, and the mermaid girl, as well as his meeting with underwater photographer Dapai. To thank Dapai for saving him, Nawei, skilled in free diving, served as her maritime guide. The untouched underwater beauty left Dapai, who hailed from the city, spellbound; The ocean as seen through Dapai's eyes was a completely new perspective for Nawei, who had grown up on Lan Yu Island. They discovered a brand-new world through each other's eyes, and it also revealed to Nawei the future and business opportunities of free diving, giving him the opportunity to leave Lan Yu Island.
Jing, a 35-year-old radiologist, copes with grief by immersing herself in work and fleeting encounters. Her twin brother, Hao, a nomadic veterinarian, last updated his YouTube channel a while ago. Despite staying connected, they both grapple with the loss of their father individually. One day, an unexpected horse appears in Jing’s apartment, turning her life upside down. Jing forms a unique bond with the horse, from initial resistance and fear to eventual acceptance. An unforeseen event prompts the siblings to engage in dialogue and rebuild trust. Ultimately, Jing bids farewell to the horse, blending the old and new within her home, and embarks on self-discovery.
Rosa, Candy, and Lisa are Interpol officers trained to stage an offensive war against international drug smugglers. However, Rosa is forced against her will to carry out this killing assignment by the ambitious Chan, who had saved her life. This forces Rosa to hunt down the enemies before she becomes the hunted herself. Merciless combat action and high-flying kickboxing from Oshima prove that this "Guardian Angel" can be devilishly fearless!
In this deliciously dark comedy, a woman desperately attempts to reunite her husband's amputated leg with his body before his funeral, leading her on a wild goose chase across Taipei and through multiple encounters with bureaucracy, ineptitude, and her own recent past.
A TV program "One Million Star" was firstly aired in 2007. It claimed to be the biggest singing contest in Taiwanese TV history and promised the first-place winner a record contract and one million NT dollars (about 30,000 USD). The show caused an unanticipated sensation. Through this film, we will see how Taiwanese young people hang on to their dreams in a seemingly hopeless and desperate society.
Director A-Shun is doing everything he can to capture the golden era of Taiwanese-language cinema in his new film. Despite encountering one problem after another that push him to the brink of collapse, everybody still says to him, "You can do it!"
Poetry, literature, painting and old film clips converge in this lyrical, unusually designed film essay about Le Moulin, the Taiwanese poets’ collective which protested in the 1930s against the cultural superiority of the Japanese occupier and the domination of realism in poetry.
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On the night of their high school graduation, three delinquents decide to exchange their darkest, most unspeakable secret.
Snake and Crane Secret is a fast paced martial arts action film about a family's battle for survival. A family tries to uphold their honor while keeping their Sacred Kung Fu book from getting into the wrong hands. A tale of deceit mistrust and traditional values unfolds along with spectacular fight sequences necessary to keep the Snake Crane Secret.
In 1949, the Communists take over mainland. The refugees and the military arrive in the Keelung Harbor in Taiwan. A father holds secret meetings with other generals in attempt to recover the lost land, his kids still play games with their grandma who enjoys the harmony in hardship.
Eugenie just broke up with her boyfriend Deven, who is in the military service. However, Eugenie cannot overcome it. She still keeps the letters and cannot discard them. One day, while Eugenie's father and sister are having a serious fight, Deven comes to visit Eugenie. Eugenie takes out the trash as an excuse for meeting Deven; however, she has no idea what she will lose.
The Japanese ninja secretly invade China in the time of the Ming Dynasty.
Police Captain Dragon Leg calls on the services of a known felon and playboy, Snake Fist, to help him infiltrate a gang of Mongolian arms dealers led by the Deadly master of the Spider Fist.
It tells the story of Long Baonian, an entrepreneur who owns tourist hotels and tour bus companies, from his youth to old age and his recollections of the past.
An ordinary day in an ordinary campus, a girl who was loved by everyone killed herself. Everyone is asking why, but no one knows the truth, except these three: a good student, a bad student, and a weird student. For they know the truth of this incident, they decide to do something unordinary for her, as a revenge. They are the partners in crime. However, with the discovery of the girl’s secret diary, we are about to journey back to our high school lives. As an old saying goes, “High school never ends!”
A third-generation heir of a family-run shrimp business returns to his hometown to take over the family business and arrange his marriage as per his father's wishes. His childhood friend, a filmmaker, documents their journey as they explore what he truly wants in life. This is a story about the leisurely daily life of two young men in a fishing village.
A boy lives with his Grandma and Mr. Lin, the tenant who looks after him and Grandma. But when Grandma passes away, the boy's uncle returns to Taiwan and discovers that ownership of the apartment was transferred to other people.
AKA Happy Hero - Follow the exciting action as 3 young men uncover the corrupted actions of the superintendents only to find further perils. Action packed martial arts flick.
China, 1915. A secret and unequal treaty that would increase Japan's dominance over China is about to be signed unwillingly but not before external forces jump in to make sure it never happens. Therefore both the US and a small band of thieves and orphans (among them Lau Sek-Ming and Alexander Lo Rei) are ordered by their foster father (Zhang Feng-Yi) to track it down in Shanghai. Feeling an unease in terms of their involvement in high politics all of a sudden, it becomes clear there's a traitor in the group...
Taiwanese movie
Taipei, late Dec 2012. The city is going through an unprecedented winter heatwave, with temperatures in the 30s. Eight-year-old Tiger (Antoine) lives with his divorced mother, Cao Yi (Vivian Hsu), 36, who is struggling to make ends meet with her job as a magazine editor and reduced alimony payments from her ex-husband (Tang Kuo-chung). Tiger, who has a hyper-active imagination and sees his mother as a run-down robot who needs a new model, is not very bright at school and worries his art teacher (Mini Yang) with the dark pictures he draws in class.
Online movie critic known for his sharp reviews, has now become an AI to dish the dirt on the latest cinematic disaster, "The Mermaid Falls for Me." A struggling writer who's close to his mom, stumbles into an online romance with a fan of his work. He thinks he's hit the jackpot in love and heads to an island for a mix of business and pleasure. But when his internet sweetheart is a no-show and his writing gig goes south, He's left high and dry. That's when he unexpectedly connects with Wen, his innkeeper, who's actually his online crush in disguise—a woman healing from a broken heart through her anonymous internet persona. Wen, once shy and lacking confidence, comes alive with the writer’s flirty chats. The writer inspired by Wen, invites her to co-write a new spin on the tired mermaid story. But as they finish, life throws a wrench in the works: His mom falls ill. In the emotional chaos, he finds out Wen was his mystery girl all along. He reacts badly, and Wen leaves, heartbroken.
In order to excel at his recycling job, Ali, a person with intellectual disabilities, had a brilliant idea but it turned into a big blunder. His colleague, Shan Shan, was infuriated by Ali's unintended actions. However, this incident unintentionally sparked a new secret plan. Throughout this process, Shan Shan realized that everyone has their own aspirations, including Ali, who fantasized about becoming a superhero. As Shan Shan observed Ali, a warm feeling began to rekindle in her heart.