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A teacher Chen Yixing, with a group of elementary school students outdoors, was attacked by hornets. In order to save the emergency, Teacher Chen took off his coat, covered the hive, and screamed for everyone to run, and finally martyred.

Taiwanese director Jo Jo Wang's 1985 adaptation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "The Christ of Nanking". Taiwan's Government Information Office demanded cuts to the erotic scenes, objected to the poster (depicting lead actress Lu Hsiao-fen crucified nude), and demanded a change of the Chinese title.

Taiwan Comedy directed by Kevin Chu Yen-Ping and starring Eric Tsang and Stanley Fung.

Three generations of the Luo family fasted and chanted Buddha's name. However, Mr. Luo died young. Luo's mother complained and began to kill animals and eat meat. When Luo Bu grew up, her family property was wiped out by her uncle. Oppose and remarry someone else. After Luo's mother died, she went to hell. Luo Bu received God's instructions and followed Pratyekabuddha to practice, and his Dharma name was Mulian. However, because he could not bear the suffering of his mother in hell, he broke into the underworld to rescue his mother. After all the hardships, he finally felt the Buddha's will. Let Mother Luo be reincarnated.

Billionaire Suen falls seriously ill, he hopes to find his only son who has been missing for twenty years to inherit his fortune. Meanwhile, he tells his butlers to find a killer, to kill him when he is joyful, so that he won’t suffer too much from his illness. Suen meets a woman and asks her to move in, in return he promises to pass his fortune to her. Thief Yee, Scammer Tao, and Single Fong all flood in and assert that they are the son of Suen.

Little Kai (Sun Ya-Tung) is a member of a criminal organisation. The tattoo on his chest earns him the nickname of ‘Leopard’. Immediately upon Little Kai’s release from jail, his brother is framed and murdered. Suspecting that it’s an inside job, Kai returns to the organisation to see if he can find out root out who is behind his brother’s death.

A group of police women keep the city safe. A normal day day includes everything from battling robbers to going undercover to break up a arms deal that threatens the city.

Taiwanese movie, featuring kung fu, dirt bikes, exciting action, and a femme fatale.

The daughter of a queen and a comet is abandoned by her family. One day, she comes across a prince fighting a multi-headed dragon and falls in love with him. However, some wizards try everything to keep them apart.

The swords never stop flying in this action-packed old school hit! Master Wu (Ko Keung from "Fatal Flying Guillotines"), after refusing to help the king continue his war, fights off a regiment of guards attempting to take him by force. Unfortunately, he cannot save his brother, but he can get revenge! Master Wu embarks on his journey for revenge and is joined by David Chiang ("Slice Of Death", "Challenge Of The Shaolin Masters"). Ninjas, gap-toothed kings, and a sword-wielding army are just a few of the obstacles Master Wu must overcome on his revenge quest.

A prince wants to marry a common girl, but is forbidden from doing so. When the girl's parents are brutally murdered, she's taken in by the Silver Fox, and taught the ways of killer kung-fu techniques, which she masters completely. When she finds out that the prince's life is now threatened by the same warlord who killed her parents, it's time to take revenge.

A Lau Brothers Film Company production from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

A Chinese drama

a final film of director Sung Tsun Shou.

film about a little boy and his friend, the ganoderma alien (translation of the Chinese title) named Y Y. On a hunting trip, some men see a large mushroom. Their guide tells them it's a god that has saved many people. The men don't care and knock it off a cliff. Bing, wraps it up and takes it home. That night, the mushroom grows a face and starts walking around the house. Soon, a friendship is born. All is well until one of dad's hunting buddies realizes Y Y's healing powers. He takes Y Y to sell him and it's up to Bing and his human friend, Fatty, to rescue Y Y and return him to his cliff.

Vic, an unprosperous actor, is torn between his dreams and real life. A short film produced during Ang Lee's second year at NYU film school.

Flower Just Smile in the Spring Breeze is a Taiwanese Romance starring Alan Tam

Arriving in Taiwan in the 1950s, Kuei-mei makes a disadvantageous marriage to a widower with three unruly kids and a bad gambling habit. Beautifully portrayed by celebrated actress Yang, she weathers pregnancies, her husband's infidelity, her daughter's resentment, a stint as servant in Japan, divorce, and illness while struggling to keep the family restaurant business afloat.

Swordplay master Adam Cheng returns to the role that brought him superstardom. This time, Chu Liang Hsiang has to fight a legion of fighters helmed by the Bastard swordsman himself Tsui Siu-Keung, who is united by one aim, and that is, to defeat the Romantic swordsman Chu Liu Hsiang and claim the title of best swordsman in the martial world.

A crime / revenge movie loaded with gory torture sequences, including acid in the shower, a pick-axe killing and a lovely scene where a man is tied to a cross and killed with the titular critters. Scenes from this later ended up in the IFD / Godfrey Ho mishmash Majestic Thunderbolt (1985).

When he was a child, Champ Wang was adopted by a noble man, and as years went by, he fell in love with the man's daughter. After the girl's family was slaughtered, he hid the girl in a secret place and attempted to fine the murderers. During his chase, he killed some great fighters, and their families decide to contract killers in order to get rid of him.

An Zhuo is a shy and polite teenager. His parents are very strict. In addition to normal classes, he has been supervised to learn English, Spanish and violin. Every day is full of classes. However, what he is really interested in is watching the sky with a telescope at night. One day, a super baby from outer space accidentally enters his world. Appears to be in the vein of E.T.

Swish, energetic kung fu action with everyone hunting a golden dragon statue and a killer called Moon Night Cutter.

A group of kids (Little Rambo, Little Chuck Norris, Little Jackie Chan, and Little Bruce Lee) trained in martial arts combats gangsters after they kidnap the sister of a girl they have a crush on.

It is the time of the dissolution of the Chinese Empire. The Boxer Rebellion challenges the occupying foreign powers, the Empress Dowager rules the throne, but Warlords control the country. After losing his army in a game of poker, one Warlord tries to borrow money from the foreigners but they will only loan him the money on one condition. The foreigners are bringing an international group of top athletes to tour China. If the warlord can recruit, and train a team to beat the international athletes, then he can borrow the money. A motley crew of offbeat characters are forced into being on the team. Coached by a very unorthodox trainer, played by Hu Gua, the team eventually meets the international athletes in a wild series of battles and competitions until one side is victorious. With lots of very juvenile humor, crotch jokes, and mildly interesting kung fu action.

Taiwanese horror film.

The body of a Hong Kong investigator who had been on the trail of drug smugglers floats up in a river. After police get information that drug smugglers are secretly active in the city, an officer goes undercover as an escaped convict to infiltrate the ring.

Kenny Bee plays a saxophonist who works in a night club. Fang Hui-jang is the oldest sister in a four-child family whose father is working abroad. They are forced to live together in a house because they are fooled by a cheater who pretends to be the owner of the house they rent and runs away after taking both their rents. This love comedy begins after this couple lives together. —Anonymous

Taiwanese horror movie from 1984.

Lu Shao Fung and Seeman Chelsea start a sword duel over one of the men's wives. Lu pursues Seeman, but loses him. This leads him to spend time in Death Villa, where he is both welcomed and challenged. Death Villa is run by a mysterious man who wears a cane basket on his head, with a bead curtain covering his face. He recruits Lu into his evil scheme....

The film is composed of four unconnected Chinese myths, including how Pangu opened the sky, Nuwa created man, Kuafu chased the sun, and when Huangdi fights Chiyou, of which the latter occupies the longest section. Between the stories, the director connects them with narrations "full of sensibility and philosophy", thus forming a "picture of the founding of the ancestors" imagined by the director.

Chih-Ting and Chia-Lin, two students in Pingtung Girls’ Senior High School, are bosom friends. Their close friendship attracts jealousy from other classmates; thus rumors about them being lesbians spread. When this groundless rumor victimizes Chih-Ting and costs her best friend, it becomes too much to bear. In the 70s, the Taiwanese mainstream society regarded homosexuality as a negative variation of sexuality and imputed the cause of homosexuality to growing up in an unhealthy environment. However, the two protagonists’ friendship remains the heart of the story. Their unspoken emotional undercurrents are left for the audience to infer.

Taiwanese romance film.

The 'scalper' is a cinema ticket-tout skirting the law and police harassment to make a living for herself and her three children in downtown Taipei.

Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery is based on a seminal wuxia novel that's been adapted for the screen numerous times throughout the history of Hong Kong martial arts cinema.

Set in China during the 1940s, story told through the eyes of a 10 year old boy of the relationship between the boy, his mysterious nanny and her weakling godbrother.

A woman is raped and impregnated by a psychopath, who comes back from beyond the grave to exact revenge when his demonic son undergoes an exorcism.

An evil sorcerer traps a young hopping zombie and his friend with magic. He later tries to raise an army of zombies to help carry out his nefarious schemes. It is up to a few heroes to try to stop his sinister schemes and his undead minions. (from ZMDB)

Visions of a ghostly woman compel Sze An, a poor scholar, to go on a trip which leads him to the mysterious Cherry Estate, whose carefree inhabitants know nothing of the rest of the world.

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.

Set during the Sung Dynasty, patriotic monks of the Shaolin Temple fight against foreign invasion.

A village of Japanese immigrants is destroyed by a group of Ninja. These Ninja were controlled by a Grand Master who sold his talent to the highest bidder. Once a contract was taken, only death could stop these well trained killing machines. Three children were known to survive the massacre. One is living as a beggar, when in reality, he is a Master Ninja himself. One is a blind fortune teller and one has a son named Tiger, who is studying under the beggar to become a Ninja. Some forty years has past and the Grand Master is still seeking the identity of a child born to the village Princess. He will stop at nothing to fulfill his deadly contract. (First part of a longer version of the film Ninja Kids split into 3 films)

Selected criminals are being trained to fill in vacancies for police.

Kidnapped by a group of bandits and raped by their chief, Dan Zhu slowly develops feelings for the perpetrator. Echoing the social realism of Taiwanese new wave filmmaking, director Wang Tung revisits the wuxia genre, with the emphasis on psychology rather than action.

A farming village is undergoing change. Some of the young people want to live in the city, while others stay behind and try to help the older residents adjust to a new scheme of growing flowers to sell at market instead of rice.

Park Mei Ji receives a phone call from a woman who says she and Mei Ji's husband, Inn Min, are living together in Taipei and raising a son. Mei Ji immediately leaves Seoul and flies to Taipei with a friend at the woman's request, discovering that the situation is much more complex and tragic than she initially thought.

Three Taiwanese friends go through political, romantic and cultural changes, from childhood to middle age.

Taiwanese action film.

There's a one thousand year old Ginseng running around in the woods, and everyone is after it, including a boy with a sick mother, a beauty and her kung fu warriors, and the Three-Head Monster. Who will eat the Ginseng and gain its mystical powers?

Drifters directed by Kun-Hou Chen.