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A young woman of considerable social standing receives a curse from a black magician that causes her her head to detach from her body and attack anyone in sight. A good wizard is able to limit the effects of the curse to effect her only on the 15th of each month, but when she falls in love, things get complicated.

Tien Wu Ying is second to none, deadly and cunning. Meanwhile, she is impossible to catch. Her powers and abilities are untouchable! Scene after scene of Dark Lady of Kung Fu so she escapes an attempt after another. Although the mystical and unchallenged, sneaks Tien Wu Ying's way into the middle of a plan to overthrow the government. Here she helps those trying to stop the revolution.

Just coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different characters from each other. One is a businessman, charming and mature; the other is a young supervisor in a factory with a promising future. But these two loves are short-lived, fading away like bubbles on the beach. With a wounded soul, she went back to the cottage owned by Sister An, a friend from jail.

Fire Ball is a 2005 Taiwanese animated feature film made by Wang Film Productions and directed by Wong Tung.

A dazzling and unconventional documentary where a filmmaker explores their first experience of great loss after her best friends Chun and Yueh go missing. Trapped in a cave in Nepal for 47 days, Yueh survives. Chun does not. Yi-Shan offers an intimate window into the complex relationship of survivors as she traverses the intricate terrain of grief and gender with Yueh. Their conversations are steeped in themes of guilt, perseverance, and identity as they navigate Chun’s legacy with ease, even as elders around them fail to acknowledge their friend’s queerness/transness posthumously.

In a coastal village near Taidong during the 1960’s, a single, middle-aged mother, Bao-chai, lives a quiet life with her daughter, Xi-lian, a 20-year old schoolteacher. After conservative Bao-chai finds out that Xi Lian has fallen for her cousin, she forbids them to see each other. As time passes, Xi-lian finds love again, this time with Chu-cheng, a new teacher at her school from mainland China. When Chu-Cheng is relocated, he writes love letters to Xi-lian. Unknown to Xi-lian, the letters are intercepted and read by Bao-chai, who, in reading them, has feelings awakened in her that has been buried for most of her life. Then, one day, Chu-cheng comes to visit, and something happens that will change these three quiet lives forever…

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

After being rescued from the hangman's noose for a crime unbefitting the punishment, Chi Hsiang (Anthony Chan Keung) returns to his village home after a three year absence. There he discovers local bully turned tyrant, Tien Pioa in league with the Japanese and bleeding the poor farmers for all they possess. At first Chi refuses to help fearing it would merely cause more problems. However, the killing of his school's teacher (Jack Long) ultimately causes him to rethink his stance. From Taiwan: an ultimate superb basher!!

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Mr. Lin is a happily retired man who spends his time keeping company with his toddling grandson, walking his dog, and playing golf with his in-laws. Recently, he has been obsessed with houses with river views. In Lin's city of demolitions and reconstructions, money-making investors buy and sell houses at unaffordable prices. Above the skyline of Taipei, will the boundaries between daydreams and reality ever blur?

Fantasy adventure depicting the famous Eight Immortals of Taoist mythology.

A young Prince is married against his will because his father needs an alliance with a neighboring kingdom. But the Prince wants to become a monk and flees among the common people, which are terrorized by a evil sorcerer and his cult.

Housewife Lifen returns to work after a long absence, but her maid, Adi, runs away. Determined to save her career, Lifen sets out to find Adi. However, when Lifen “captures" Adi at a migrant worker beauty pageant, the actual reason behind Adi's escape leaves Lifen with an even harsher choice.

At 92, Granny Asha’s magic is fading—she forgets spells, and spirits no longer visit. When her grandson DouDou moves back with his son, Dou-Miao, the boy’s hidden powers awaken, pulling him and his grandma Mei-Chen back to Asha’s childhood in Japanese-era Taiwan. But a vengeful spirit, once sealed by Asha, resurfaces in a storm. With DouDou trapped undersea and Asha’s magic failing, can four generations join forces to save their village?

Drug lord Au Kai kills his man Li Tin-Kit after finding him as an undercover cop. Tin-Wah vows to avenge his elder brother, and he mixes himself in Au’s gang for collecting the proofs of his crime. The rival of Au, Sister Ha, takes advantage of the chance to make Tin-Wah kill Kan to weaken Au’s strength…

Chaozhou police constable Chiang and his wife are brutally killed by five escaped convicts whom he brought to justice three years ago. Their daughter Feng (Lu Hsiao Hui) is lucky to escape, and she sets out to avenge the murder of her parents. With the aid of martial arts expert Chuan (famous action star Philip Ko), Feng tracks down the thugs one by one and kills them with her "8-Step Successive Killing Kicks" kung fu.

A court justice finds himself in a bad spot when the criminal case that he hears involves members of his own family. He jails his own son for murder and witnesses the break up of his family among other things.

Little Scissors, a little young girl always dreaming of becoming a space hero. Today is her first day of preschool. Surprisingly, she met the alien attack. Will she fight with them bravely? An incredible and fantasy story is keep going!

All the Corl One's Men is a Taiwanese Comedy starring Alan Tam.

A divorced entrepreneur (Yueh Yang) and his handsome partner (Charlie Chin) both fall for the beautiful company secretary (Brigitte Lin)...

Taiwanese action film.

Two agents investigate missing ammunition from the Chinese military. Not a single shot is fired and it is all kung fu fighting start to finish.

Shaw’s superstar, Chi Kuan Chun stars in this brilliant sword film from ace Director Chang Peng Yi, as a sentimental swordsman who tries to give up his sword and leave a quiet life, but constant challenges in the martial world prevent him from doing so.

Laichun, her father and two mothers, uncle and grandfather are of different generations; thus they all think differently. Father is the family head, and because he believes he must continue on the family name ends up taking two wives.

Although Jay and his boyfriend Henry have been together for years, Jay has yet to tell his friends and family about his relationship.

After bandits hijack a shipment of rice, a local government official frames, tortures and imprisons the man in charge of the shipment in a desperate power play to take control of the region.

Back in his old family home, a couple expecting their first child is thrown into a standoff when a pipe bursts—fix it with money, or hold on to something harder to let go.

In a crumbling house on the edge of Taipei, two brothers drift through odd jobs, messy love, and quiet yearning for a life that feels like their own.

In Taiwan, director Lee Hsing's films have become a reflection of society and a collective memory of many. His dedication to film not only launched the careers of many movie stars and crew, but was also the foundation of the prestigious Golden Horse Awards. This documentary offers Lee Hsing's personal perspective on family, films, fate and beliefs, giving us a glimpse of the glory and rebirth of Taiwanese cinema.

A scientist buried in his work to avoid the pain of his wife's death, he brings a robot home which looks just like his wife. The robot carries the burden of making her two daughters "happy". Tzu-Yu, a scientific girl who inherited her father's talent. She has not only to face the huge changes caused by her robot mother, but also the pressure of the competition. Moreover, the romance between her and the gifted transfer student Yi-Hsiu, making her sip the sweet and sour taste of growing up.

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.

Captured and imprisoned by the government, Liu Yao-ting is forcefully separated from his wife Shih Yueh-hsia. During this time, they write to keep their love alive. Eighty one letters, lipstick-smudged and sweat-stained, are the vessel for their passion and the embodiment of their spirits.

After seeing his father murdered and his mother abducted by a caveman-like martial arts cult, a small boy is taken in by a wizened old kung fu master, who rigorously trains him until he is endowed with almost supernatural fighting skills. This training, however, takes much less time than it would in most martial arts films, in which the kid would attain mastery at about the same time he reaches adulthood. Instead what we get is a sword-wielding 5 year old waging a bloody war of revenge against an assortment of adult-sized demons and people in heartbreakingly threadbare monster costumes.

Chao discovers that he is suffering from cancer and has only a few months to live. Wanting to alleviate his girlfriend Su-An's financial burdens, Chao starts working as a muscleman for a mob boss and successfully expels the competing gang from the area. With nothing left to lose, he becomes unstoppable.

“I Remember” tells the story of sister writers Chu Tien-wen and Chu Tien-xin, from co-founding the San-san magazine to their respective creative and political efforts up to the present.

Futing, who returns to the tribe on vacation, is suddenly told to replace his grandfather to participate in Sacepo' (sea festival). However, as it's already difficult for Futing to speak his own mother tongue, how could he catch fish in the sea? Just when he is about to escape, he meets Lisin, a lovely girl who stays in the tribe to work in exchange for board and lodging. Her eyes are full of admiration immediately when she hears that Futing is going to participate in the sea festival. In order to win the hearts of Lisin, Futing tries his best to learn how to fish in the sea.

Drug trafficker Yu Shan returns home after 13 years to move a big shipment for his boss Kuang. But he finds that his family is under the pressure from a local bandit and is forced to go on a deadly rampage.

Short animation by Po Chou Chi

Model Fable encounters his cheating partner Nova just as Ivy's fashion show is about to begin. The fear of being exposed keeps him tossing and turning at night, but his deepest fear isn’t infidelity itself; it’s the hidden kinks and pleasures lurking within their hearts. Unable to resist his desires, Fable finds himself back in Nova's embrace, while his straight girlfriend, Chun-Ning, has already heard something from Ivy...

The story of Lao Mo, a Taiwanese veteran who does not want to live a lonely life as an old man.

On New Year's Eve, Indonesian migrant worker, A-Di, meets Taiwanese local, Chi. A-Di decides to let herself loose just for once, and joins Chi in a “wild” night where she is free to be who she wants to be.

A collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae-yong on an emotional imposture, Gu Changwei on pregnancy in China and Tsai Ming-Liang on time and the city of Hong Kong.

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A historical thriller directed by Cheng Kang.

Hoping to find their uncle in the big city, siblings Siu-Tong and Chee-Loy end up offending the local gangsters and attracting the drug traffickers. As if luck would have it, they are now the Interpol's best friends, as the police wants their assistance in trapping the bad guys at a triad banquet gathering…

A-Lin Sonar World Tour Concert Live 2016