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Taiwanese martial arts drama starring Brigitte Lin.

A gang conflict brews as dispute about the lucrative elver harvest rises. Fellow gangster Loo is desperate to extricate his fisherman father, Gu, from the impending warfare, but they are nonetheless caught in the crossfire.

Late at night, Kurt sees an old claw machine, on which a big headline reads “Collect all the seven-colored capsule toys, the mysterious prize will come.” After he comes to challenge and collects all the capsules, an unexpected “Prize” befalls him.

A-Tek is on a quest to find his favorite metal band, Chthonic, and persuade them to play a benefit protest concert in his southern Taiwan hometown. Can music save a Taiwanese homeowner from a Chinese land grab? He sure hopes so.

Considered the first biopic of the legendary Bruce Lee, fact blurs with fiction in this low-budget, loose interpretation of the great martial arts expert's life starring Bruce Li, the most well known Lee impersonator. The film takes a look at Bruce's humble beginnings as a paperboy to his rise in fame as a martial arts phenom, who later gets tangled up in a love affair with actress Betty Ting-Pei.

In 2018, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area Administration to make this film, his eighth in the "Walker" series. In the constant passage of time, the Zen-like footsteps of the Walker has finally allowed us to see the Pacific Ocean, the open sky, the seagulls, the black sand, an eel catching settlement that arose in the cold winter rain, the twisting branches of the lintou trees, flotsam piled up like mountains, and a newly constructed cement house, which seems to offer a temporary place of rest for the Walker. "Sand" premiered together with the opening of the Zhuangwei Dune Visitor Center.

Drifters directed by Kun-Hou Chen.

The corpulent, middle-aged protagonists decides to end his suffering by committing a suicide. After a few pitiful attempts, a woman selling encyclopedias rings his doorbell and the drama turns into a comedy.

An elderly farmer and his family return home to their village after trying to make money in the city, only to find it destitute and ruled by exploitative employers and a hungry tiger. Both the greedy employers and the tiger are protected by the government, but only the death at the hands of one will provide compensation.

A young girl describes her father and his relationship with all his pets that he never really knew how to look after.

The Golden Blade should be kept in the hands of a good person; if it fell into the wrong hands the outcome would be terrible. Evil Black Bat asked for the sword, but the sword smith refused the demand. The prentice hid the sword while his master got slaughtered by Black Bat and before his death asked his prentice to give the sword to Ting Yeh the son of Ting Hsiang Ren. Black Bat slaughters Ting Hsiang Ren and his family, while Ting Yeh was absent. Upon return to home, Ting Yeh finds out the tragic destiny of his parents. After recovering The Golden Blade he seeks vengeance.

The Unforgettable Character is a 1975 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Chang Mei-chun and written by Chiung Yao.

People with no talent will be killed – this is the rule. 29-year-old A-Teng has to take the Competency Verification when he turns 30. While facing the mounting problems in life, he meets a mysterious woman with a gun.

Dancer SHEU Fang-yi’s career has been told through her modern dance dramas such as Sparrow, Stranger, Wall, and Martha GRAHAM‘s Heretic. Martha GRAHAM once said: “A dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.” At this intersection of her life, SHEU Fang-yi commemorates her glorious past two decades with a funeral, to farewell her past self, and to get ready to move toward her unknown future.

The day Liao was discharged from prison with his maimed right hand was also the day Nan was forced to retire. Nan will no longer be the head of CIB, just as Liao will no longer be a pickpocket. Liao wants to find the young pickpocket who called him “Daddy” back then, while Nan misses his daughter badly, who hated him profoundly and was unwilling to forgive him. So the two desperate old fellows start trying to find their last hope.

An ecological film that took 17 years to film directed by Ma Jue-ming, producer of "MIT Taiwan Chronicle," documents the research and investigation of Taiwan's endemic mountain salamander species.

Taiwanese movie

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.

Filmed performance of Yang's one-act two-character play which shifts back and forth from comedy to much darker tones as a married couple try to figure out what to do with the body of a man the wife has killed in their kitchen.

A Lan and her daughter Chun Hua make their annual visit to the Turtle Island, where memories and grief haunt. As the journey unfolds, the tension between the mother and the daughter grows, driving them to confront the unspoken sorrow and regrets deep down.

Two brothers who've been separated for many years find each other again and vow to avenge their father's death.

Red Pirate and his people caught women for ransom with two girls from royal British family among them. But his ingenious plan gets complicated when his men decide to rape hostages and one of the women manages to escape and informs police about Red Pirate's hideout. HK police joins their forces with Vietnamese commandos, navy and air-force and the battle with pirates begins.

A Japanese girl came to Taiwan to couch surf but something terrible happened.

When a girl raised by wolves is found in the woods, she must learn to forge her own path as those around her try to exploit her for their own purposes.

Taiwanese social worker Jia Jia is assigned to gather a football team of foreign workers. Ali, a former football player in his homeland of Indonesia, is forced to work abroad in Taiwan to pay off his loan after getting injured. Due to a series of unfortunate incidents and discrimination from his supervisor, Ali reluctantly becomes an illegal worker. Joining the Foreign Workers’ Football Union rekindles Ali’s enthusiasm. The team plays better and better, while romance grows between Ali and Jia Jia. But then Ali’s illegal identity is exposed, and he is set up for a murder by an unscrupulous Taiwanese foreman. As Ali leads the foreign workers football team into the finals, a group of police arrives the stadium…

Ken works night shifts at the local gas station. One night when he is reminiscing about his childhood in this once-thriving town at work, Long Foot, one of his close childhood friends, shows up. What should have been a happy reunion turns into a melancholic self-examination as Ken is reminded of an unpleasant memory that he never wants to face again.

A tightwad bought a luxury house just for selling it at the higher price. However, someday, a corpse appeared in the house...

A bandit learns he is being framed for the murder of other martial artists. While searching for the real killer, he encounters an old love.

An ambitious country boy gets a job as a security guard in Taipei.

A Taiwanese martial arts film produced and choreographed by the Lau brothers.

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ZHENG Dao-nan and Xiao Bei, a pair of well-renowned high school table tennis players nicknamed “Nan-yang and Bei-feng,” lost connections with each other after encountering a gang-brawling incident. Many years later, Xiao Bei led several young ex-gangster to run an industrial-style barber shop. At the same time, ZHENG was released from prison with the mystery of the death of his stepfather, the Mafia Don. The two reunite and work to stop a burring storm in the mafia. After investigating, deducting, and piecing the puzzles together, they finally get hold of the secret ledger that can reshape the landscape of the criminal underworld. In the end, they each have to make their own choices of either getting revenge, reviving their father’s business, returning to the mafia, or living a simple life as ordinary citizens.

A life begins, then it shall end, natural laws of the universe that mustn’t be disturbed. When people choose to end their lives, they must face the consequences: a series of challenges which await them.​

Originally designed as a multi-channel video installation, the film The Walker ingeniously deconstructed the background stories and the plays of the legendary Taiwan Walker Theatre which pretty much represents some underground culture scenes of 1990's Taipei. Based on a multi-character narrative structure, the film re-interprets the velocity, prime-time, rebellion, physical pleasure and ethical minefield referred to in these plays. With its Dream-like images, The Walker reminds us of the utopia pictured previously by the Taiwan Walker Theatre, indicating a polysemous, hybridized art world whose components range from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Gay men Gu and Chang meet on a dating app, and head to a hotel for a hookup. The two strangers start with some small talk to break the ice, but Gu seems anxious, prompting Chang to ease him into the mood. As their conversation progresses, Chang discovers that Gu is hiding a secret.

Brigitte Lin and Charlie Chin star in this Taiwanese drama about a kindergarten teacher who falls in love with a divorcee but leaves him because she thinks he's still in love with his ex-wife.

Chinese mine workers are being cruelly suppressed by the Japanese, and a Chinese officer is sent to the scene. In an effort to hide the evil truth, the East Asia society decides to hire a samurai to kill the diligent young Chinese investigator.

Wen Jin-sheng loved being active from a young age. A motorbike accident during his junior year of high school left him with a comminuted fracture to the cervical spine, paralysis of four limbs, and only his head left to communicate with others. Jin-sheng has since spent 25 years lying in bed. Not only has his family suffered under the financial burden of his condition, but his life has also lost all direction and he has begun to contemplate euthanasia.

The Devilish Killer is the most dangerous fighter that ever lived...After defeating all of China’s martial art factions in a grand battle, he decides that his victory cannot be complete unless he possesses the two Thunderbolt Swords. The leader of the Thunderbolt Sword clan sends his two sons into hiding knowing that sooner or later the Devilish Killer will come for them and destroy his clan. After the two sons leave, taking the Thunderbolt Sword with them, fate leads them to meet a young swordswoman who owns the other Thunderbolt Sword and together they unite their swords and train for the ultimate showdown with the Devilish Killer.

During a junior high classical music competition, talented violinist Chen-Rui surprises everyone when he relinquishes his position of concertmaster to another student.

Crime film from Taiwan

As nightfall casts shadows on their secrets, the woman schemes under the shroud of darkness, returning to the house to share her clandestine plans with her partner in crime. Yet, an otherworldly aura permeates the air, revealing the lovers' true selves and dropping cryptic hints about the mysterious male corpse.

When Luke proposes to Cai and hears a simple word "Sorry," he wakes up finding himself shaking on his bed. Luke tries again but is forced to return to the same morning of his proposal due to the repeated rejection.

Oshima wakes up in the middle of a desert in South America with no memory. A woman named Coco is lying beside him. Coco tells Oshima that he was originally planning on crossing the desert with his girlfriend May to get to Snow Mountain, but May suddenly disappeared, leaving him at bay. Coco helped him out by chance, and now they're heading to Snow Mountain together.Perhaps May is already there...

The Japanese ninja secretly invade China in the time of the Ming Dynasty.

A car accident on a curvy road with a history of death is just the beginning of a woman's horror story.

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.

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.

Intrigue involving corrupt warlords and rebel spies in the Chinese provinces. Rebels take on the warlord power with brains and fearlessness.

Bruce Li plays a young kung fu expert (and waiter) who is trying to live peacefully in San Francisco with his marital arts-challenged friend. But they run afoul of some American thugs, and the fight is on...right!

Being a mortuary cosmetologist, Min-Hsiu is used to seeing dead bodies until she accidentally spots a female corpse – her high school teacher Miss Chen Ting. Nie Cheng-Fu, Chen Ting’s husband, loves his wife profoundly and tries to find more memories of her with Min-Hsiu’s help. At that point, a detective, Kuo Yung-Ming, senses that the truth behind this case may not be as simple as it seems. Death is not the end of life, but another beginning of it...