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New Perfect Two

Ah Bee, a former superstar motorcycle racer who gave up on the sport after a bad fall on the track left him physically and emotionally scarred. Now Ah Bee is a self-loathing, boozing, gambling layabout with a faithful girl named Maniu, a spunky tomboy who cooks his meals, launders his clothes and constantly reminds him of what a loser he is. Of course, she needles him in an adorably sassy way, making her one of those awesome in-the-movies-only girls who'll love a man faithfully even if he's a boozing, gambling layabout.

New Perfect Two

4.5 2012
Sweet Alibis

Chi-yi is a veteran cop, who values his own safety more than anything else and is therefore infamous for his cowardice and poor efficiency at work. Yi-ping, on the other hand, has just graduated from the police academy and is more than ready to prove herself regardless of any risks. Daughter of the head of the National Policy Agency, Yi-ping is secretly kept away from danger by being appointed to team up with Chi-yi. Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy’s accidental death, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly dig up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.

Sweet Alibis

5.5 2014
Taipei Exchanges

Doris simply wanted to open a refined, stylish coffee shop in a bohemian Taipei neighborhood, but when she's stuck with a load of useless gifts from the opening celebration, her younger sister Josie turns the café into a burgeoning bartering business. There, even a soulful song (by Japanese singer Atari Kosuke in a cameo) is a tradable commodity. One day, a traveler brings in 35 soaps from around the world with a story for each of them, awakening Doris' imagination about the outside world that she has never seen.

Taipei Exchanges

6.7 2010
Possession

Police detective A-Hao investigates a mysterious stabbing by a teenage girl who appears to be possessed by a malevolent force. Once a passionate detective, A-Hao retreated from the front lines several years ago after mishandling the investigation of a wife killer. By chance, he stumbles onto a mysterious stabbing allegedly committed by a teenage girl, which drags him back into the investigations unit. Initially, A-Hao just wanted to quickly close the case, but his investigation into mysterious suspect Wang Jia-ying gradually ignites his desire for the truth. As A-Hao edges closer to cracking the case, Wang Jia-ying begins exhibiting signs of demonic possession. Despite opposition from everyone around him, A-Hao insists on exhausting all possibilities to uncover the truth, not realizing he has already fallen into a trap weaved by lies and conspiracy…

Possession

1.0 2018
The Moonlight in Jilin

The Moonlight in Jilin is directed by Wei-ling Chen. Ivy Yin, winner of the Golden Bell Award for Best Leading Actress, stars as Weiwei, a Chinese woman who marries a Taiwanese gangster to save up for her mother's medical expenses. However, her promised life collapses when her husband suddenly absconds. Weiwei has no choice but to serve in an erotic massage store. One day, the police make a raid, and a junior officer, Jiahao, has a crush on Weiwei. As her best friend from her hometown visits Taiwan, Weiwei asks Jiahao to pretend to be her husband. Is this an accidental happiness for Weiwei?

The Moonlight in Jilin

NR 2012
想念

《想念》描述一位住院的老頭子(茂伯飾),因為與他同病房的小女孩(林彥禎飾)無法跟同學去旅行,老頭子索性帶著小女孩翹院出去玩的故事。這部片從台北開始拍攝,一路經過了桃園、新竹、苗栗,一直拍到台中,茂伯笑說自己是「拚了老命」來完成這趟旅程的拍攝。開拍的第一天,為了呈現最真實的感受,他不惜在產業道路上,徒手推著拋錨的小貨車上山,片中他還揹著小女孩走山路,替牛接生、擠牛奶,並且拍攝跟流氓打架救小女孩的戲碼。劇組人馬為了這一老一小荒腔走板的旅程,每天趕路拍攝,不僅經歷屢創紀錄的炙熱高溫,同時也遭遇了「五」個颱風。不知道是不是離開台北的關係,這趟路下來,不僅他倆玩到了,劇組大夥也玩得很開心。 每個人的成長過程中都有一些印象深刻的經歷,不管大或小,對自己來說都是一件畢生難忘的回憶。初次拍攝自己小時候的回憶故事,非常感謝這麼多業界的好朋友前來支持,更感謝製作人陳振德和瞿友寧導演的大力幫忙完成我的夢想,希望這部片能勾起更多觀眾心中難忘的想念故事。

想念

7.5 2011
Oh, Pretty Woman

Chen Miao is a bubbly but uncouth 25-year-old woman who was brought up without manners by her loving but negligent and equally uncouth father. When her paths cross with Wei Dong, the son of a wealthy family headed by a notable judge, her life turns upside down. She falls in love with him at first sight, although he doesn’t really know what to make of her. Unfortunately, due to her father’s carelessness in causing a fire that damages the Weis’ property, she gets off on the wrong foot with Wei Dong and his family – and ends up having to work as the family’s maid. Chen Miao hopes to win Wei Dong’s heart. The rest of the family is horrified by her lack of manners and hatches a plan to engineer a relationship between Wei Dong and a “more suitable” young woman from a similarly wealthy family. Chen Miao tries to change her tactics by adopting “polite” ways – creating more awkwardness. Despite all this, Wei Dong starts to wonder if he is falling for her unconventional charms!

Oh, Pretty Woman

NR 2018
Great Wall, My Love

Chun, 28, Taiwanese, goes on a conflict-packed search journey with her Chinese guide, Ming, to find her father's long-lost first love, XiuQian, in China. Chun's father had promised XiuQian 60 years ago that he'd definitely come back to marry her. But not until recently, Taiwan and China were hostile to each other, he was never able to fulfill his promise. Chun and Ming grew up on two sides of the Taiwan Strait and were brought up with different values. They don't hesitate to cut each other down to size. Their turbulent romance unfolds in tears, laughter and a clash of values. The love story of two generations, across the Taiwan Strait, told with touching drama and biting comedy, is a poignant and entertaining road movie.

Great Wall, My Love

6.0 2011
The Losers

A man chooses to leave the city and goes back to his hometown in the countryside. However, he finds that his dream of being a farmer is shattered as the property developers have flocked into this small town in Southern Taiwan. Consequently, the farmland is taken over by holiday homes and villas, which not only look incongruous in the landscape but have destroyed the serenity. A woman who left home lives in one of the villas. She has been trapped in the house both physically and mentally until she meets the man. Their encounter is about to change everything…

The Losers

NR 2014
The Fourth Portrait

Ten year-old Xiang faces a lonely future after his father dies. Just when he thinks he's going to spend his life in the orphanage, his estranged mother shows up. And his life changes forever... A loveless mother, a hateful stepfather, a chilly home. Where's Xiang heading to? He finds comfort in drawing and his work reveals his longing for care and affection. Life is full of hope again when he meets the old school janitor who doesn't show his kindness easily and a portly man who has crazy ideas and is haunted with nightmares of his brother. A scary truth is about to be unmasked. Will Xiang be able to depict his own image in the fourth portrait?

The Fourth Portrait

6.6 2010
The Search for General Tso

From New York City to the farmlands of the Midwest, there are 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., yet one dish in particular has conquered the American culinary landscape with a force befitting its military moniker—“General Tso’s Chicken.” But who was General Tso and how did this dish become so ubiquitous? Ian Cheney’s delightfully insightful documentary charts the history of Chinese Americans through the surprising origins of this sticky, sweet, just-spicy-enough dish that we’ve adopted as our own.

The Search for General Tso

6.5 2014