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In 1998, Kang Chin-Ho (康進和) directed Kavalan (少年噶瑪蘭), funded by PTS and filmed by Wang Film Productions, the theme is an aborigine tale handed down in the Kabalan Plain, describing the protagonist transcending space and time to return to the plain in olden times. The art design was not bad but due to a lack of understanding of Taiwanese aborigine culture, the animation was not well valued by the aborigines.
Fairly obscure Taiwanese Swordplay with a very slight fantasy edge to it.
Little Death, child of The Grim Reaper, have problems to follow the steps of his infamous father.
A tale of a lowly slave in feudal China who wants nothing more than to become a Kung Fu Expert.
Taku feels like he is incompatible with this world. But one day, he wakes up to discover that all his dissatisfactions no longer exist.
This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers due to harsh working conditions and lack of medical care. How will living this way for more than a decade shape their lives?
Todd and Marianne are a couple whose cat recently went missing. Since then, their relationship has become increasingly fraught with unexplained suspicion and distrust. One night, Todd made up his mind to follow Marianne secretly, trying to find the answer to his confusion, and indirectly heard about a cat who knew the truth from his neighbor.
1964 Taiwanese spy film. Winner of the Golden Horse Grant at the 3rd Golden Horse Awards.
In the early 1980s, hundreds of the so-called female revenging/exploitation films were produced in Taiwan. The 2020 version was based on the old genre to recreate a fantasy of the bloody revenge. The film is one of Su Hui-Yu’s “Re-shooting” series, which re-visits historical sources in Taiwan during the old days around the 1970s-1980s while the country was under martial law governance.
After studying drama in the UK, Tan-feng returns to Taiwan to investigate her sister's death. She suspects that her sister committed suicide because her boyfriend, Huai, jilted her. Out of bitterness, Tan-feng begins to plot her revenge by seducing Huai and his childish brother. However, things don't go to plan as she falls crazily in love with the enemy.
Taiwanese movie
Ming-Hsang, a deaf college student, meets interesting people as he cycles around Taiwan before he graduates from college.
Kudo, a Japanese researcher and hiker disappeared in the mountains of Taiwan. Looking after his traces, his images.
Gofer, Mo and Pengolin, collectively known as the Three Rats, are looking for a two part treasure map and will kill anyone who gets in their way. A young girl named Shao Wa seeks to avenge the murder of her father. In order to defeat the Rats, she must learn the eight strikes of the Wild Cat from an old Kung Fu Master, while trying to evade his amorous assistant, Lee Ta Fa.
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.
Four hiking buddies go on a camping trip, and at midnight one of them is found to be in a coma. At first they take it as a joke, but soon they realize that the rescue might come a bit too late. This story is based on a true event.
The film follows the last 4 years life of Grandma Hashima, the last existent from colonial Taiwan, who knows the secrets of "Green Jail," the notorious coal mine before World War II on Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan.
It's the day before Hsiao-Chun's 18th birthday but she overhears a secret which will change the way she looks at her family. As the candlelight on the birthday cake glimmers before her gloomy heart, what wish will she make?
A young woman tries to bind her lover to herself forever.
Kueiyuan is a deliveryman for a cosmetics company. He is a womaniser and dreams of making a quick buck. He meets a romantic 20-year-old girl, Qingmei, who feels trapped by her mother’s small restaurant and is eager to escape. Kueiyuan earns a commission fee by introducing Qingmei to a cabaret, run by Yuchan. Qingmei falls in love with Kueiyuan and sleeps with him. However, under pressure from Kueiyuan and Yuchan, Qingmei agrees to become a mistress to an old millionaire. Meanwhile, Yuchan seduces Kueiyuan and controls him with money and sex. When Qingmei discovers that she is pregnant by Kueiyuan, the latter demands an abortion. Qingmei runs away and hides. When Kueiyuan proposes marriage to Yuchan and is rejected by her, he finally realises that he is in love with Qingmei and goes out to look for her.
Taiwanese fantasy / adventure.
Polly Kuan and her brother (Pai Ying) are safeguarding a list of rebels from the villainous Jin dynasty.
Longing. A taiwanese film directed by Kun-Hou Chen and written by Hsiao-Hsien Hou.
This documentary explores the reason why people in Chiayi have an everlasting passion for music—is it the vibe of the city, or is it mere illusion? In this film, Chiayi-native musicians and musicians who have migrated to Chiayi were both actively engaged in a reality show in which they tried to fulfill their calling as musicians. Even faced with a dilemma, they have not hesitated for a second—music, for them, is the best choice in life.
A naked boy masturbates, accompanied by lines of poetry and caterpillars on the wall.
An irresponsible young couple got a possessed doll by accident, the doll quickly turns into an extremely high maintenance baby overnight, the couple must learn to care for this newly born before it wreaks havoc on their lives.
Taiwanese horror.
A housewife whose life only revolves her husband finds herself being cheated. She becomes angry and neurotic and can't accept the fact at all. Finally, she realizes that the only choice she has is to compromise and to forgive, but it was already too late.
Iron Neck Li (Chi Kuan Chun) signs on as a personal bodyguard for a Chinese prince. The potentate plans to visit the lawless island of Formosa, where criminals lie in wait -- highwaymen who would love to take a crack at the rich prince. But garden-variety brigands are the least of Li's worries when he encounters a powerful clan. Li must now put everything on the line to save the young prince.
10-year-old Szu Ting just had a baby brother. She assumes her parents only love the baby. When she notices a lump in her chest, she suspects she has breast cancer. Facing her fears alone, Szu Ting tries reaching out to her parents for help, but fails to get their attention. How will Szu Ting make it through the last 30 days of her life?
Due to his history of theft in the past, Lin Kuan is falsely accused of stealing from his high school classmate. To prove his innocence, Lin enlists his friend Xiao Bing to make a plan that will clear his name. However, heir seemingly perfect plan takes a turn that pushes Lin to a dangerous edge.
A third-generation heir of a family-run shrimp business returns to his hometown to take over the family business and arrange his marriage as per his father's wishes. His childhood friend, a filmmaker, documents their journey as they explore what he truly wants in life. This is a story about the leisurely daily life of two young men in a fishing village.
Directed by artist and filmmaker Tiffany Sia, The Sojourn (2023) imagines a restless landscape film in Taiwan. Visiting scenic locations shot by King Hu, the short experiments with the road movie genre and its intersection with the martial arts epic. Sia meets actor Shih Chun, who played the protagonist in Hu’s Dragon Inn, Touch of Zen and other wuxia films, as he guides the quest to re-encounter the iconic landscapes where Dragon Inn was shot. He advises on the perfect conditions of mist and weather. Yet, in the journey through the mountains of Hehuanshan, the sublime landscape of King Hu remains ever elusive. She later visits the elementary school of Indigenous filmmaker and principal Pilin Yapu of the Atayal tribe. Absent of conventional subtitles, the essay film employs text burned into the center of the frame as a mode of translation, sometimes refusing total disclosure. – tiffanysia.com/glossary/the-sojourn
In the remotest corner of southern Taiwan, the sinking fisherman´s village prepares for another carnival for the god. Sheng, a man reaching his 30s, returns in disguise as an established urban elite. As the carnival escalates, Sheng confronts his persistent father who farms oysters throughout his life and the childhood buddy who always envies his fragile “successfulness.”
Veteran filmmaker Mary Stephen digs into her own family past to uncover the long-hidden origins of her Western surname, revealing a story of culture shock, colonialism, and contested remembrance.
Frances and Rin flee to an abandoned restroom, with Rin hurriedly trying to wash her hands; they are drug dealers struggling to survive. Unfortunately, they encountered a violent man. Rin stabbed the man to death to protect Frances, and the two had no choice but to run away…
A family just moved in a new mansion in the suburbs, but weird things happen on and on. The wife sees a dead man’s skull. The son strangely says he sees many people in the living room. Is the house haunted or could there be some other reason?
A comical look at the preparations and anxiety associated with marriage. As a young man searches for his ideal mate, he reflects upon this madness and has second thoughts about matrimony.
The film documents the rise and fall of the Wufeng Lin family in Wufeng, Taiwan over the turbulent years of Taiwan under the administrations of the Qing dynasty, Japan, and Republic of China.
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.
A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”
Ad director Wan Ting-fang, with little time left to live, receives an unusual offer from underworld emissaries: film an adult movie for ghostly audiences, and he’ll gain more time on earth. Short on resources, he enlists his mother-in-law Hsiao-fang, whose unexpected enthusiasm reignites his creative spirit. But when their forbidden project catches the City God’s attention, Ting-fang's final deadline draws near.
Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.
Yang Yang was born in China, but raised in Taiwan. When his mother encounters financial problems, she sends him back to live with his grand mother for a short while. Gradually, Yang Yang is going to discover another side of his origins, his story...
Taiwan movie
After returning from Tokyo, she meets a director she knew from her acting days. After they meet, she returns to the director's place, and in the dim light, the two see each other's projections and memories of their pasts. Memories of Tokyo slowly overlap with the scene before her eyes.
Wong Chi-chae, an ambitious young doctor, is secretly in a relationship with Cheng Yuh-hsya, a nurse. When the president of the hospital selects Wong to be his daughter's suitor, the doctor breaks off his relationship with Yuh-hsya, who reveals that she is pregnant and determined to keep the child. During a heated argument, Wong kills Yuh-hsya and hides her body in a well. He then begins to lose his grip on reality. Has he truly become the victim of Yuh-hsya's supernatural revenge?
An older woman and her mentally disabled son arrive at a train station. Even the dispatcher wonders what they are doing there, as they sit and watch passing trains. The film will remind you how nice it is to stop and look around. Best short film at IFF Venice in 2005.
Lily, a seemingly popular live streamer, faces relentless bullying from her classmates at school. Her world crumbles further when she discovers her boyfriend is cheating with her best friend. Just as everything spirals out of control, she stumbles upon a stolen phone harboring a mysterious female ghost named Xiao Ya. With Xiao Ya’s uncanny help, Lily’s cheating boyfriend gets what he deserves, and her livestream viewership begins to soar. But what Lily doesn’t realize is that Xiao Ya’s help comes at a chilling price...
Chasing after siblings in the rhythm of skipping ropes brings both joy and bittersweet moments in the journey of growing up. XiaoJei is a copy cat, who yearns for the life her sister leads: a vibrant rope skipping team, trendy shoes, a close circle of friends, and the affectionate gaze of their parents. To enter her sister’s world, she must match her lightning-fast jump roping. As XioaJei fixates on being able to compete with her sister, she discovers that dedication and unyielding practice are the only means to keep pace. Source：TAICCA