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Martial law was lifted in Taiwan in 1987. Since then, all kinds of reform and democratization were raised. However, in May 1991, four young people were arrested by the Bureau of Investigation (MJIB). This had generated the fear in society and led to the so-called “White Terror.”
Bo Xin has no status at home - his brother despises him for not having a job, his mother won't buy him breakfast, and his father wants him to die. But, the fortune teller told Bo Xin that he would succeed, though "they" didn't think so...
Ciao, a fifth grader, has to create a vlog with his parents for a school assignment. Since he can't find time with them, he tries various ways to complete the task. One day, Ciao meets a homeless man who works as a street sign holder. In exchange for Ciao's lunchbox, the man agrees to pose as Ciao's grandfather in the video.
Before leaving, Yi would like to go back to where there are cattle, oyster farms, and Chi.
A masterful minor exercise in telling a story with a twist and an equally masterful exercise in the dramatic use of what's known as a Steadycam, a camera with flowing motion. The car journey with one lover too many gets completely out of hand. And after the twist, another one follows.
Taiwan taxi driver Jimmy Wang Yu has good intentions -- he wants to pay for an operation to help his sister recover her sight -- but he's saddled with some bad luck of his own. When Jimmy's dad angers three brothers who are looking for payback for their parents' deaths, Jimmy must now defend his father and try to save his sister. This crazy 1970s martial arts action flick will delight fans of the genre.
Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness?
An unusual tale about the love between a female cat-burglar and a university student.
After Japanese soldiers kill 12-year-old Ten-din's (Shiao Sheih Long) mother during an invasion, Ten-din must hide in order to save his own life. He takes refuge with a Peking opera company, where he perfects his fighting skills and turns into a kung fu expert. He later uses his skills to help those in need, by robbing the rich to help the poor. When Ten-din's actions are discovered, a group is sent out to intercept him and his friend Ying.
TUAN Wan-lu is a naïve and carefree young woman raised in the family of a professor and doted on by her protective older brother and childhood friend KU Yu-lan. Though Wan-lu is deeply attracted to MENG Chiao, their romance is thwarted by the taunts of MENG Chiao’s mother. At the same time, she discovers she is actually the illegitimate daughter of a club hostess. In the face of this double blow, she decides to marry Yu-lan, the one who has always been there for her. Caught between MENG Chiao’s persistent wooing and her own wavering heart, how will Wan-lu will find her way out?
Vivian and Joshua, who haven’t seen each other for a long time, separately seek out Tien in private to ask for advice about whether they should break up with the other. As Tien listens to them talk on and on, she also begins to have some thoughts of her own.
A group of characters pursue a sacred martial arts text known as the Virgin Sword Book so they can master this most powerful of techniques.
Little Kai (Sun Ya-Tung) is a member of a criminal organisation. The tattoo on his chest earns him the nickname of ‘Leopard’. Immediately upon Little Kai’s release from jail, his brother is framed and murdered. Suspecting that it’s an inside job, Kai returns to the organisation to see if he can find out root out who is behind his brother’s death.
As the world teeters on the brink of collapse, a weary office worker encounters a strange, heartbroken girl. After a wild night together, they brace themselves for the end — and for a new beginning.
Taiwanese comedy.
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?
When Birdy was young, he was like a fledgling still learning how to fly. He needed care and nurturing from his family to grow strong, yet he didn’t want to grow into the person his family expected him to be. SECOND ROUND is a coming-of-age documentary that intertwines Birdy’s gender transition with his inner emotional transformation—pulling back, pushing back, confusion, courage, fear, anxiety, and taking one last all-in gamble. We walk alongside Birdy through countless thoughts and struggles, witnessing a life crack open, grow, and ultimately find its way back to itself.
At a deer farm in Changhua County, a middle-aged man is asked to cut off a stag’s antlers in front of his two kids.
In 1984, a major fire broke out on the fourth floor of the Jin Xin Building, the residents on the 4th floor were trapped in the fire as the fire exits were blocked, which claimed a total of 19 lives. Pei who possesses psychic abilities, moves into the building, teaming up with Shao, a horror novelist seeking inspiration within the building, they investigate numerous unexplained terrifying events and aim to uncover the truth behind the tragic fire..
Barry Chan plays the Canton kid a kung fu fanatic who takes on three vicious kung fu thugs who after being released from jail have come to Canton looking to cause a lot of trouble and to settle old scores.
Hong Kong romance set in wartime
A woman searches for her boyfriend who disappeared on New Year's day. She goes through his website he created missing.com/ing and encounters others along the way...
In 2015, the Museum of Anthropology at National Taiwan University (NTU) held a traditional wedding for an ancestral post collected from the Kaviyangan village of Paiwan. This documentary is based on the archive from the wedding ceremony, combine the image we shoot after two years, to compare the situation of village before and after the ceremony.
Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It is destiny that they meet a second time and Kao Han takes a chance in this second meeting to pursue Pan-yun. Pan-yun is reluctant to get involved with Kao Han because she still thinks about and love her late-husband and also her late-husband's niece, Ko-hui (Lan-xi), is in love with Kao Han. Reluctantly and unwillingly Pan-yun falls for Kao Han but their love is not so easily obtained.
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.
A young woman leaves her home and boyfriend in rural Taiwan for Taipei with dreams of entering the entertainment industry and gradually discovers the complicated ramifications of her pursuit. A 2-part TV movie and part of the groundbreaking series "Eleven Women," this is Edward Yang's directorial debut.
On a sweltering summer morning, just as Wei-Han was heading out for delivery run, he discovered that the fridge had broken down—all of his girlfriend Chia-Lin’s ice pops had melted. Chia-Lin called the landlord, insisting that he replace the old fridge with a new one, but Wei-Han didn’t want to escalate the situation. The two began to argue in their cramped rooftop room.
Selected criminals are being trained to fill in vacancies for police.
Two people, who were taught by the same Kung Fu teacher, meet again after 10 years. Toe has become a policeman and has to investigate which ruthless gang has been terrorizing the railway. Tjeu has become a gang leader. After a while Toe finds out Tjeu is the man behind the robberies. This can only lead to one thing: a tough duel.
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.
Taste of Wild Tomato begins with the history of Kaohsiung, which was an important military base for the Japanese army during the Japanese occupation, and tends to the deep scars of the survivors, their descendants, and their descendants’ descendants.
Taiwanese comedy film.
In those boring little games, from guessing names to this-or-that, from competing to see who laughs first to the things we say to each other, many moments reveal our familiarity and deep bond. But what he didn't expect was that, at the end of the games, there would be no next time.
Taiwanese horror movie from 1973.
Set against the backdrop of Thai International Boxing, what starts out as a happy love story between Wong, a champion boxer, and his beloved, develops into a violent and explosive saga of blood and guts. 'The Dark Alley' lights up in a furor of incredible kung fu fighting and ruthless revenge that will leave you breathless'
Mitchell and Miles once spoke the language of love fluently, but now even a dream trip can't drown out the silence growing between them.
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.
The movie continues the story from the TV series which ended with a cliff hanger where the wife (Sonia Sui) was deciding whether to return to her cheating husband (James Wen) or have a relationship with her boss (Chris Wang). 4 years after the divorce, her cheating husband, Wen Rui Fan, comes back in hopes of re-kindling their love. Will An Zhen return back to him or move on to a new love?
Mysterious Heroes centers around Lau Tien, master of the deadly 13-Sword Style. Thrown into prison by a group of jealous enemies, the 13-Sword Style is rarely spoken of, let alone seen, until 20 years later, when a second swordsman going by the name of Lau Tien proves to be the world's second 13-Sword expert. Action-packed martial arts chaos ensues when the enemies of the original Lau Tien vow to destroy his successor.
A young girl describes her father and his relationship with all his pets that he never really knew how to look after.
Shang Li is suspected of murder. He runs away, and while the hunters search for him, they have plenty of time to think again. Maybe Shang Li is innocent? Isn't there someone else around with a much better reason to commit that murder? Which takes us into the second half of the movie where much more kung fu fighting takes place than in the first.
A seventeen-year-old girl's family, drowning in debt, agrees to a marriage proposal out of desperation. But the wedding hides a dark secret, a terrifying ritual demanding the sacrifice of five brides. Caught between survival and horror, she is about to face a nightmare far worse than she imagined.
A village of Japanese immigrants is destroyed by a group of Ninja. These Ninja were controlled by a Grand Master who sold his talent to the highest bidder. Once a contract was taken, only death could stop these well trained killing machines. Three children were known to survive the massacre. One is living as a beggar, when in reality, he is a Master Ninja himself. One is a blind fortune teller and one has a son named Tiger, who is studying under the beggar to become a Ninja. Some forty years has past and the Grand Master is still seeking the identity of a child born to the village Princess. He will stop at nothing to fulfill his deadly contract. (First part of a longer version of the film Ninja Kids split into 3 films)
Selected criminals are being trained to fill in vacancies for police.
A wealthy kung fu man with exceptional martial arts skills wanders the land fighting for justice.
Two boys play poker on a dull afternoon. As one boy inadvertently touches and makes eye contact with the other, it sparks a beautiful, imaginative dance.
Two top swordswomen practice the rare art of Chrysanthemum Sword to rid the country of a ruthless swordsman and restore peace to the martial world.
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?
Four Taiwanese women are tricked and forced into sexual slavery in Japan. However, they manage to escape. They now seek revenge.
The M Riders are members of a magic school hidden in the parallel space outside the earth’s atmosphere. After a mission to rescue magical creatures on the earth, a villain finds the school and threatens to destroy the earth. In order to save the earth, the M Riders embark on a journey to find the mysterious Pangu stone and they will discover that Pangu's mysterious power is inextricably linked with their own magic.
