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Lin Hsiao Lan plays an oft-bullied student who yearns for adventure. In the wrong place at the wrong time, she screws up Alexander Lo Rei's chance for reincarnation and now they are stuck with each other. Eventually they become friends and set off to avenge Lo's death.
An indigenous construction worker has led a distasteful life, until he meets a young hooker, and starts a poetic journey of love⋯ Postcard is Cheng's first short film, which elegantly presents the situation of the lower class with songs and poems.
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 movie
In order to excel at his recycling job, Ali, a person with intellectual disabilities, had a brilliant idea but it turned into a big blunder. His colleague, Shan Shan, was infuriated by Ali's unintended actions. However, this incident unintentionally sparked a new secret plan. Throughout this process, Shan Shan realized that everyone has their own aspirations, including Ali, who fantasized about becoming a superhero. As Shan Shan observed Ali, a warm feeling began to rekindle in her heart.
Jing, a woman living in Taiwan, visits Japan after receiving a letter from Kasumi, who once had an affair with her father. As she spends time with the now-ill Kasumi, their quiet conversations lead her to confront her father's hidden emotions—and her own long-buried loneliness.
Different groups of people wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They spend time together, trying to get away from their depressing jobs, meandering constantly towards a disturbing surreal queer fantasy.
After four decades, a group of veteran singers gather together again. The songs they wrote when they were young had once changed the fate of the island. However, time took away their youth and changed the island's soul. Not only a new national identity has formed but so many new music genres have emerged since then. Can the innocent songs they sang back in the old days still be related to the new era?
Drama about a young boy who suffers from a rare deficiency disease. The medicine he has to take every day has the side effect of making him reek of ammonia. The consequent bullying and ostracism by schoolmates exacerbates the boy's sense of victimhood. His mother, meanwhile, runs a help-line for parents with comparable problems.
Tin On moves from Hong Kong to Taiwan suddenly in January 2020. She finds out the light in the apartment seems to be broken. The landlord asks her neighbor, Yi Ming, to fix it. Tin On seems far away from her reality. Yi Ming gets closer to her to uncover the mystery of her presence.
Tung-Ching’s life has changed since a car accident three months ago. The lifeline on his right hand was scratched off in this incident. A nurse told him that his life is no longer controlled by fate but has become unpredictable since then. Three months later, Tung-Ching’s father has suffered a stroke so he has to take over the family pawnshop. His girlfriend, Eiko, who is interested in palm reading, wants to retrieve Tung-Ching’s lifeline. However, Tung-Ching is apathetic to know what the future holds. He starts to flirt with one of his female customers who he names her “ Know-all”.
French-made documentary, "Métro Lumière", which actually does help provide some of the context for Hsiao-hsien's approach to the film. It includes excerpts from Ozu's films, in particular, "Equinox Flower", to show the parallels with this film, the obvious basis for some of the scenes and situation set-ups.
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.
When Cho loses her husband Ying and her family business in a massive typhoon, she is devastated.Then the villagers begin receiving mail from Ying. Is he really dead?
Shaw Legend Chang Yi teams up with Polly Shan Kwan (18 Bronzemen) in this costume epic. Chang Yi is the man to beat, and the line is long with challengers. One of the rarest and best kung fu movies. A true classic in martial arts movie history!
Teenagers Jielong and Tangmi secretly love each other, but Tangmi vanishes after they spend a night out together. Jielong has to turn back to focus on his studies and enter university. Unexpectedly, Tangmi resurfaces with a newborn baby.
Fire Concubine takes up Thai boxing to avenge her brother's death. This does not go down well with the local mafia who arrange for a witch to put a deadly curse on her.
An honorable assassin from the Mainland arrives in Hong Kong on an assignment to blow gaping holes in the unlucky members of a Triad gang.
The story is about a licentious emperor during the Tang Dynasty.
A-Jay has a special job, trauma cleaner, he has to associate with the unidentified death people every single day. His life is nothing different to being dead.Until the day while he was working, a familiar sound started ringing… Why did A-Jay decide to leave his family? A-Jay who stuck with his life, can he release himself from the past?
A little vampire runs away from home when he thinks his uncles are fighting over him - they're really fighting over his mom. He makes friends with some kids and helps them take care of a gang of bullies. The kids in turn help protect our little vampire from a man wanting to use him to cure his brother, who's turning into a western style vampire.
A man tracks dowm his missing father, looking for the ancient memory of a last dish.
Peigang, his family's only son for three generations running, is to be executed on account of larceny, but not without the intervention of his grandmother.
The Four Brothers of Huan Nan is a charismatic gang known for its vibrant presence. Amid the bustle of Taipei's traditional food market, two of the youths face familial opposition to their forbidden love, while the only female member grapples with her unspoken feelings for the enigmatic fourth member.
Taiwanese film directed by Chin Ao-hsin.
Top class swordplay action from Taiwan, where umbrellas are used as swords.
On the same day, in the same accident, Wei loses his pregnant wife and Ming her fiancé. In Buddhism, one is given 100 days to mourn for the dead. Like two mice lost in a labyrinth, Wei runs around in circles while Ming calmly creeps down a determined path. But the pain and sorrow linger on. With the 100th day approaching, they wonder if they'll ever be able to say goodbye.
Antonio, a travelling missionary priest, seems innocent — until he wields his cross (containing a hidden treasure) as a weapon during a train robbery. While on the train he befriends a man named Dragon, who helps him fight the bandits who want the cross.
Adaptation of Chiung Yao's novel "Fire and Rain".
A troupe of traveling performers stop in a small town. However, the general who controls the town has designs on the group's leading actress. They must figure a way to get out of town before the general has his way with her.
Taiwanese huangmei opera film.
A young composer, Kenny Kew, is tasked to bring his niece to her father, Lee, when his sister passed away. With Lee away with his roving rock band, Kenny sets off on a reluctant road trip with his niece in search of her elusive father. Kenny, who initially wanted to sever all ties with his family, eventually realises the importance of family on this journey of self-discovery.
Alan Tang plays an engineering student in Taipei, Taiwan who meets and falls in love with another college student played by Brigitte Lin. Tang is the rich spoiled playboy son of a wealthy builder. When he meets Brigitte, Tang's life changes and he becomes very serious about her. There are many wonderful romantic scenes between the two on the beach and in the country under a maple tree.
A deranged swordsman travels the land taking on all comers and defeats them all with ease. News of these vile fights travels fast, and before long two other students of the sword are dispatched to rein him in.
Taiwanese movie
Father, son, the lighthouse as the center of their lives. Both grow up, the son leaving every day to pursue his studies, then returning to an increasingly elderly father who welcomes him with the same warmth, taking him, as he has always done over the years, to the piano to play together.
A Taiwanese language film. There are rich Hong Kong twins. Younger of them murders his brother-in-law and nephew. 18 years later, the relatives want revenge.
Taiwanese crime film.
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.
Yu Tien Lung stars and directs this superb Kung Fu film using his deadly silver spear to vanquish an evil warlord and liberates the region from tyranny.
The forces of good and evil clash in this martial-arts picture, as personified by warriors and overlords from the Orient's past.
A young boy holds the secret to the coveted kung fu manual. A martial clan lead by Pai Ying hunt mercilessly for the book. Blind but not out, Lung Jun Er saves the boy and defeats the aggressors.
Biopic of the life and death of the legendary Bruce Lee, played by Bruce Li.
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.
A research lab has developed "The Formula", a box that allows living organic material to grow hundreds of times its original size. Criminals invade the lab to steal it, but it's thrown off the side of the road. There it's found by a girl who decides it will be the perfect home for Mosler, the snake she has adopted. Mosler immediately outgrows the box, springing to the ground like a pile of novelty dog poo. Gang members see the girl and her huge snake frolicking outside and put two and two together. Mosler thwarts their first attempt to snatch her, but when they do succeed he goes on a rampage trying to find his friend
