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This early Brigitte Lin film is based on the same Chinese folk tale that Tsui Hark later used as his source for The Green Snake. It is the story of two sister snakes that want to feel what it is to be human and one of them needs to know what it is to feel human love. It is a sweet magical but ultimately tragic tale of breaking societal taboos. - brns.com
Two high school boys stumble upon an unguarded scooter before class starts in the morning. Seeing a chance to finally taste freedom, they decide to flee the depressing classroom and the suffocating metropolis of Taipei city. It is the beginning of a road trip with the sunset as the final destination. Sadly, they had misunderstood the direction of the sunset...
Taiwanese romance film.
A young man learns about love in the nightmarkets of Taipei.
The witch family operates a historic hot spring in Beitou, where it is said that all illness can be cured by bathing in the waters. However, Qiqi, the heiress to the family business, dreams of leaving this place and her irritating grandmother behind.
A trapped picture book writer is going to pay the price for his last night’s reckless acts.
A young innocent woman is raped by a gang of five men. Years later the young woman has matured into a sophisticated lady and singer. The five guys have gone their separate ways, however one by one, she finds them and sets about her revenge.
The 'scalper' is a cinema ticket-tout skirting the law and police harassment to make a living for herself and her three children in downtown Taipei.
Qing soldiers invaded the Indigenous Amis Village of Cepo’ in 1877. Kacaw is riddled with guilt after he’s unable to save those who flee to Cilangasan. His wife is pregnant, and their people are starving. Kacaw eventually convinces Mayaw, the head of the community, to harvest rice for Qing soldiers in the lowlands. But will everyone return home after such an arduous journey?
Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery is based on a seminal wuxia novel that's been adapted for the screen numerous times throughout the history of Hong Kong martial arts cinema.
A high school girl, Yu Shan, has long harbored a crush on her classmate, Pin Lun. She finds satisfaction in stealing his small belongings, as this gives her a sense of possession. She knows Pin Lun's weekly schedule, including when he practices piano. Once, Yu Shan sneaked into the music classroom ahead of time, and reveled in the pleasure of accompanying Pin Lun from a close distance as he played the piano.
Tyrone Shu directs Lung Chun, Wang Tao, and Angela Mao in the historically set martial arts film Moonlight Sword & Jade Lion. During the Sung Dynasty, Mao plays a martial arts expert who finds herself involved in a variety of political intrigues. "Feisty ace martial artist Chu Siew Yen promises her teacher that she will find his missing brother. During her search Chu also tries to discover the identity of the person who killed her parents. Of course, accomplishing said tasks proves easier said than done as Chu faces opposition from many people she encounters on the way to uncovering the truth." Written by Woodyanders
Limitless lies, betrayals and temptations revealed by an accidental car crash. A huge storm is about to happen in Taipei and we're all inside it!
Lights shining, drums rolling, here starts the show. Curtains falling, winds howling, sheds swaying, up there sits the moon. LIANG-JUN gazes silently at her mother, not daring to say a word.
Starring pop idol Bobby Duo (竇智孔) and emerging young actress Lin Jia-yu (林家宇), the film begins with Meibana (played by Duo), a 26-year-old Tao man, deciding to take a break from his stressful life in Taipei and return to Orchid Island. There he learns to appreciate his people's traditional way of life as he whiles away his time collecting the island's natural sounds with his recordist and mentor A-fei.
Min was in a car accident with her mother. Whene waiting for the results of her mother's surgery, her brother behaved weirdly. The horrible plague doctor and the symptoms of the Black Death appear in her mind. All kinds of events seem to remind Min that it was not just as simple as having a car accident...
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.
A middle-aged unemployed man accompanies his elderly mother. They make a special trip from southern Taiwan to his daughter's art school to sign his daughter's application for a "leave of absence".
It tells the story of a mother’s desperation to locate her child when the abductor dies before her child can be located. With time running out, the child’s mother seeks the assistance of a spiritual medium.
The lovely Fire Pheonix comes to the rescue of a young man who is the last survivor after his family has been killed. The entire Martial Arts World is dragged into the ensuing turmoil. Ambushed at every turn, our heroes must find a clue to the murders. Who is friend? Who is foe? Who is behind this fiendish plot? What mysterious kung fu will the enemies unleash next?
Set in China during the 1940s, story told through the eyes of a 10 year old boy of the relationship between the boy, his mysterious nanny and her weakling godbrother.
Loyal to his gangster boss, Pua risks everything for money—and for Mi-ji, the ex-prisoner he secretly loves. But freedom brings distance, not desire.
Johnny (William) is a 25-year-old man, filled with sexual desire, who longs to have a real relationship with a woman. Every time he sees an attractive woman, he gets a nosebleed. His long-suffering mother Meng Jie (Samantha Ko) is worried that his lust will get the better of him, and that he will end up getting a woman pregnant. But his life is changed on the day he decides to seek out baking lessons from Mary (June), a baking teacher who is 15 years older than him – and also happens to be a friend of his mother. Mary is wary of Johnny’s affections, and thinks that a relationship between them would be totally inappropriate. But Cupid has other plans for them. Eventually, she finds that fighting her feelings is a fruitless struggle – and finds herself seriously beginning on a romance with the younger man. But things take a turn when Johnny must go abroad to Italy to study. And then the situation gets extremely awkward when Johnny’s stunned mother learns of Mary’s love for her son.
Legendary Chinese rebel Fong Sai Yuk (Fei Meng) takes on the Manchu dynasty in this high-octane martial arts actioner. After killing one of the governor's thugs, Fong must not only elude authorities, but also face a deadly assassin. Discovering the governor has murdered his two kung fu brothers, Fong vows to take on the corrupt leader. The film includes a slew of awe-inspiring battles using lethal Shaolin poles.
As a child, Fong Lin I witnesses the murder of her lawman father at the hand of 4 outlaws. She devotes her life to Martial Arts, with the aim of taking revenge years later.
Photographer Yen, Yu-Feng faced the pain of bereavement alone after the death of his mother. When he was grieving alone, he realized that his mother would completely disappear from this world, and he couldn’t find any photos of his mother. Yu-Feng began to recall his past with his mother, trying to find her figure from old things, graduation albums, and old photos.
Graduation is approaching, marking the close of a chapter. I took my camera to Green Island, recording video letters day by day. But the camera became unruly, backup batteries went missing, and the trip began to go downhill. Typhoons arrived, and the video letters ceased... Finally, facing the sea beneath the sun, my camera non-responsive, I took a Dramamine, then boated back home.
Feature debut by notable film critic Wang Wei. The film takes Taipei’s trendy Ximending district, best known for its mix of alternative lifestyles, youth fashion and the antimony of adolescent life, and provides an upbeat story of damaged young people finding their purpose in life. The film’s upbeat tone may appeal to some, but the complexity of the background is obliterated by rom-com stereotypes.
A woman is raped and impregnated by a psychopath, who comes back from beyond the grave to exact revenge when his demonic son undergoes an exorcism.
Cheng, a female student director, attends a director’s audition workshop. Unable to keep up with her Japanese teacher's fast-paced question-and-answer sessions, she is inferior to other attendees on her first day. In the workshop, the same love scene is played out every day, but no one even follows the instructions of the script! Cheng, who has no experience in relationship outside the studio, can only rely on her own imagination to direct this love scene, while several characters outside the studio seem to be playing a love game that is more realistic than the script……
Several migrant workers carry stolen wood through a small winding trail. An accident happens when the police try to arrest them. The night coming, the injured worker, Đoàn, has a strange interaction with the man who wants to find him.
This one has ghosts, hoppers and magic shennannigans!
Chin Siu-Ho, stars as an anti-hero who robs the rich to help the poor.
An enthusiastic newbie teacher, Shen Ling, encountered a series of death accidents after entering the campus. The students who seem to have both good academics and good looks have a horrible evil character. After a long period of shortcomings, one after another killing incident happened. The teachers and students continuously died in the same pattern of sticker they received in communication application. All the murders are triggered by an incident from a year ago. Shen Ling will find that behind the case, there is still a cruel truth, a heavy price that no one can bear…
How small and powerless the Doudou family is in the face of disease. The doctor explained to Doudou’s parents that Tzu Chi is the largest bone marrow stem cell center in the country and can do bone marrow matching between non-relatives. Once the pairing is successful, the chance of healing is high. Through the efforts of the Tzu Chi bone marrow care team, a miracle finally appeared. Doudou Dou finally regained his health and started a new life.
What is a mature relationship? How many types of family structures are there? Age, Class, Gender and Survival continue to distort the facets of emotional relationships among humans. I like to think that Taiwanese are like desperate fishes in troubled waters, struggling to get to the water surface for a breath of fresh air. In 2013, Taiwan bids goodbye to the toll booth system as it launches a new electrical device called eTag. With the new system, Chia-wen, a middle-aged divorcee working in a toll booth on the freeway, is about to be laid off. Her financial burden increases when her teenage son is charged with sexual assault. At this difficult time, Chia-wen meets Chih-hao, who promises to help in exchange for sex. Standing at a crossroads in her life, Chia-wen is uncertain which step to take next.
Ray and Dio, father and son, work the day and night shifts respectively. Both reticent and emotionless, they keep some distance between them due to family issues and generation gaps. On Tomb Sweeping Day, Ray gets lost in the columbarium since no one told him where their ancestors' urns are placed. When Dio sees his miserable father from behind, he realises how useless his father is...
In Asia, migrant workers move between different countries. They live with their employers, and their close relationships with their employers form a mixed picture of Asian countries. Ani, a young Indonesian woman, comes to Taiwan to work as an in-home caregiver for a wheelchair-bound elderly patient who lives alone. In this small town, the patient’s family and friends come to see him and gradually, Ani learns about the family’s secrets. One evening, an unexpected visitor arrives, stirring up the emotions the family buried in their hearts.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Dad's passing. Chongyu, Mom, and his sister drove from Kaohsiung to the countryside in Tainan to visit his grave. Along the way, the GPS suddenly urged, "Turn right, turn right," and Mom immediately turned the car onto a small road off the highway. Suddenly, a vast field appeared before them, leaving Chongyu and his family quite puzzled. No matter how they tried, they couldn't find a way out. Should they turn back or keep going forward? While stuck in the car, it seemed like all three of them had something they wanted to say....
The High Abbot of Shaolin Temple sends the Ten Brothers, newly finished with their Shaolin training, as escorts to one Master Chu. Master Chu has been living in the Temple for two years waiting for the right time to leave and renew his fight against the Mings. The road to victory is filled with danger--can the Ten Brothers guide Master Chu through?
A shameful period in Taiwanese history provides the backdrop for this emotional drama from writer and director Yonfan (aka Yang Fan). In 1949, in the wake of the 228 Incident (in which anti-government protesters launched a rebellion that was violently put down by authorities), Taiwan came under martial law, and through much of the 1950s brutal reprisals against suspected communists were commonplace. During the years of the "White Terror," thousand of supposed dissidents were killed, imprisoned or simply disappeared at the hands of the military police.
A loser in life, Nan is infatuated with the animation series, Bobita. He later meets a girl, but he could never expect both the girl and his grandfather end up leaving him.
University students are assigned to do special research in The Moral Education College during summer vacation. The school has been occupied by the Japanese to do cruel human experiments, they found an alumni records about ghost experience, and also found that some girls was mysterious disappeared. A staff of the school, Miss Fang led them to know the environment, then a chain of strange things happened in that evening, and finally they are forced to flee to a century-old tree, unexpectedly they saw the Principal of the college dig out some bones unconsciously under the tree. Are the bones and all the strange things related? Can the five people go out of the school safely?
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.
Jimmy Wang Yu leads revolutionaries against the Manchus featuring his trademark huge fights.
An unexpected and joyous exploration of womanhood, autonomy and self-reinvention, told through the video diaries and personal archive of the free-spirited XiXi and the evolution of the friendship between her and the filmmaker.
Two assassins get involved in a bloody gang war over the control of the... textile industry.
A young woman moves into a Japanese-style house that's haunted by the ghost of a grieving widow who wants her "daughter" (i.e. whatever female happens to move in there) to join her in the afterlife.
A normal summer morning in "Outstanding Pool House," Shine is getting ready for school. Shine is a beautiful and chic girl, but there is a bit of melancholy in her face. Six months ago, her parents died in a terrible car accident and left her nothing beside this pool house. Now, Shine even needs to face the fact that she will be sent to a foster home if there is no one from the family that can come and take care of her. Feng, Shine's uncle, an ex-expert in billiards knows this and decides to come home and takes care of his niece. However, Shine does not appreciate this since, first of all, she is not familiar with his uncle at all. Secondly, after losing everything for gambling, Feng drinks and smokes all day, and those are what Shine hates the most. All in all, how can these two people find the way to reconnect with each other through billiards? Moreover, how can they see the love that runs in their veins for making them the family?
Somehow, a mentally disturbed 30-year-old man from Taipei finds himself waking up out of a coma in a hospital in a small coastal town in Thailand. A woman is at his bedside, calling him Assanee. But that's not his name. His name is Her Sue Yong. And besides, he can't speak Thai. He leaps from his bed and runs, and the nurses give chase. In Taiwan, he was a bedraggled, long-haired scavenger. He had a disfigured face. But in Thailand, the skin on his face is smooth and his hair is short. He's a clean-cut young man with a beautiful wife. And he has a job as a civil servant in a government office. His inability to speak Thai is no problem at work. Heck, there's even a deaf-mute on the staff. All Assanee has to do is wait for people to hand him forms, and he stamps them. Seems easy enough.
