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There has been no water in the house for days, and the reason may be the leak in the water tank on the roof. This adds another thing to Kao Li-Hsuan and Kao Cheng-Hsuan's to-do list today. In spite of their constant bickering, their relationship might be tighter than one can imagine during the rain.
This film is set during the Japanese occupation of China circa WWII. In it, the Japanese occupiers (and the Chinese Quislings who work for them) are portrayed as total monsters who kill children and rape all women. The heroes are resistance fighters who oppose the occupation.
The Pasta’ay, which means "the festival of the legendary little people," is a significant ritual held every other year in the Saisiat aborigine group in Taiwan. Every ten years, they hold the Great Ritual. This film focuses on the Great Ritual in 1986. It tries to convey the Saisiat people’s affection for and belief in the legendary little people. At the same time, the film brings into light Saisiat people’s ambivalence towards tourist invasion, and their dilemma of being caught between tradition and modernization. Structured by the Pasta’ay songs’ movements, the film breaks down to 15 chapters. It carefully juxtaposes the visual with the aural elements, which are conveyed in the conceptual dichotomy between “the real” and “the artificial.”
“Stone and River... They used to be together for the past lives. This life, they haven’t recognized each other yet.” Today, Stone goes spelunking in Shoushan with River, surrounded by the beautiful karst and lovely animals. When they sit in nature, they encounter the most beautiful moment. However, River is afraid that Stone might leave her one day...
Sun Ya-fang, a freshman from college, is wooed by her schoolmates Chen, a boastful and frivolous playboy, and Yang, an introvert, who is simple and honest. Yang's sister teaches him to adopt a more aggressive approach towards Sun. Perturbed by his advances, Sun deflects Yang's attention towards her classmate, Sung. Meanwhile, Sun's cousin, George, returns from abroad and further complicates the situation. Sun falls for George, who is more interested in Sung.
A man enters a restroom, expecting a moment of privacy. He relieves himself, watches a film, and masturbates, unaware that the space around him has already begun to shift. As the fourth wall dissolves, his eyes meet a chilling gaze peering from the depths of desire.
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!”
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.
A loose youth passes the time freely until he comes across a young, female broadcaster who works at a radio station.
Four Chinese germ warfare scientists are kidnapped by a Japanese organisation.
Everything around Mrs. Yan looks perfect, but her mind is as confused and complex as the variety of medications she is taking. To reach peace of body and mind, she tries many methods including qi training, but to no avail. One day she gets a message that the woman who had an affair with her husband is in a nursing home and suffering from dementia.
Jimmy Wang Yu leads revolutionaries against the Manchus featuring his trademark huge fights.
A movie starring Simon Yuen Siu-Tin as a Kung Fu master.
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.
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.
"Clutch up, back to gas pedal, release, and again, then straighten the steering wheel..." Wen-Xiong kept grumbling while his son, Yang, clumsily drove this manual car owned by his old man. Can the father and son mend their relationship just like how Yang Lee was trying to figure out the best clutch-control?
For the past forty years, Ah Long has headed up a traditional Chinese musical troupe. But times are changing, and the troupe members leaving one by one, Ah Hui, is an aimless slacker with no plans for the future. Ah Hui’s best friend is Ah Gou, a young man who works as a welder making metal gates.
In a family with an older brother whose young life is going to the end and parents under all kinds of pressures and sorrows, a young girl saw everything pass by alone during the whole journey of growing-up.
Nosebleed, menstrual blood. Friendship, love, Lovership? Beautiful worries worrying youthfulness.
Yu-Yin is a math teacher in a junior high school, She plays a very important role in both her students and her family's lives. However she receives the trickiest question in life just when she was about to go on a relaxing trip. Jun-ho, an adolescent boy in 9th grade, is going through the chaos of his parents divorce and the great pressure of going to high school. With a perfect coincidence, The two desperate souls met in a gas station at midnight. They were going to look at the cows at first, but then a very heart to heart conversation began while they walked into the night. The night is still dark and full of unknown incidents, a life that is stuck may be stuck forever, but with warm company, we might regain the courage once more...
In 1970, American futurist Alvin Toffler's iconic work Future Shock was published. One year later, a translation by Zhiwen Publishing House hit the market in Taiwan, thus introducing the writer's theories to readers of Chinese. The premise of the book can be summed up as: “A future that comes too quickly creates more apprehension than that of a foreign land. Future society will be stricken with a plethora of choices, throw-away society, information overload, and unethical technology.”
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.
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Capt. Ai, a small-town policeman, receives orders to apprehend a gang of gunrunners and find their hidden stockpile of weapons. Enlisting the help of his girlfriend's father—who happens to be a retired kung fu master—the captain takes on both the criminals and a few corrupt officials sent in for good measure.
The Unforgettable Character is a 1975 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Chang Mei-chun and written by Chiung Yao.
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This wartime romantic melodrama set in the mountains of Yilan during the final days of WWII. Young and free-spirited Shiow-lan (Feng Fei-fei) falls in love at first sight with Charng-rong (Liang Hsiu-shen), a worker at her father’s lumber mill. She likes to sing, he likes to write music. With their parents' approval, the two decide to get married but their plans are thwarted by Japanese lieutenant Herng-shan who has set his eyes on Shiow-lan. Herng-shan drafts Charng-rong and sends him to war in Southeast Asia where almost certain death awaits.
"Facing the stirrings of first love and growth, we all want to leave something behind, but in the end, everything moves forward silently." Hong Guang, who is about to enter junior high, spends the entire summer idly wandering around his mother's swimming pool. As the summer is about to end, the sudden appearance of a girl brings changes to Hong Guang's monotonous and stifling life, and certain feelings begin to quietly emerge in his heart.
This is a brilliant Taiwanese movie adaption of "Sentimental Swordsman, Ruthless Blade." Li "Little Flying Dagger" Xunhuan comes back to his home after three years of wandering. He has decided to have a normal life, but a group of skilled fighters and leaders are bent on killing him, so they can be ranked top by Bai Xiaosheng in his renowned list of the best warriors in the martial arts world. Li Xunhuan battles them as he searches for his estranged friend A'fei, who is now married and living in seclusion. Li asks A'fei to join forces and fight against a new threat that wants to rule the world: the Money Clan.
Fewer number of indigenous people in Taiwan still believe in Shamanism. Shamans bore responsibility for communicating with the spirit world, and relied on rituals to help others to avoid misfortune. However, both the suffering patient who wishes to have a ritual performed and the shaman performing the ritual have their own troubles. Can these wounded spirits find healing in beliefs?
A murderous feline creature seeks revenge against the deedents of Chow Sung who savagely raped an innocent virgin in ancient China.
In 2019, the night in Hong Kong was still in fascinating beauty and the landscape of everyday life was gradually changing. Travelling the streets, Tsai Ming-liang documented the city's rhythm and ambience, along with an overpass.
The last bus has already left the station. Frustrated, the young man reluctantly gets into a nearby illegal taxi with a grandma, a migrant worker, and a talkative driver, and they drive from Changhua City along Zhangshui Road all the way to Erlin. The wheels roll forward, and the scenery of the hometown is reflected on the windshield and constantly receding. Where does the fleeting light in the young man's eyes come from?
A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jing is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mother, while Mi is the more sedate and level-headed of the couple.
Taiwanese martial arts drama starring Brigitte Lin.
The threat of public exposure drives a closeted fetishist’s life into peril, setting a catalyst that will change the lives of those around him.
A chauffeur is pursued by drug dealers after his boss, a convicted drug kingpin, is sentenced to death.
"Qian-Yu, is this mine too?" Yong-Hua and Qian-Yu started an unexpected day with the "thing" they found in the car.
Chia Ling portrays a tough kung fu kicking Hong Kong cop who comes up one of the toughest criminal syndicates in Asia, with her tough skills and quick mind she manages to bring the gang to justice.
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.
Peng’s father is killed by the local overlord Chen Tao in front of his son. Years later, the adult Peng has his revenge, killing Tao and incurring the wrath of Tao’s brother. Meanwhile, Fan, a wandering “security guard”, defends himself against Chen’s bullying henchmen, which doesn't sit well with Chen, who offers Fan two choices: join, or die. Chen takes the rebellious Fan to find Ping and kill him. Little does Chen know that Fan his own ulterior motives in mind.
a final film of director Sung Tsun Shou.
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.
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.
Although blind, the sharp hearing swordsman is still twice as fast as his foes; together with his trusty blade he dispatches an array of swordsmen an assassin’s in this great Taiwanese swordplay film.
This old school martial arts comedy involves the search for the elusive “Bamboo Stick,” an aged kung fu master played by Simon Yuen, who kills a local crime boss’s son after taking the place of the son’s forced bride on the wedding night.
A Taiwanese martial arts film produced and choreographed by the Lau brothers.