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Taiwanese drama film.

Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, directed by Olivier Assayas.

A bisexual artist is waiting to move to New York City to be with his male lover while living with his girlfriend in a sumptuous loft in Taipei. In order to save enough money to implement the trip to New York, he joins the dancing group that formed part of the fat stripteaser's show. Later on, he takes his girlfriend to Yenshui for the firecracker festival and happens to witness a weird murder with video recorder in hand. He then becomes the target of the mysterious killer...

The film tells the story of Liao Jun who found a smuggled pistol on a fishing boat, was chased by the underworld and chased by the police, and fled with Zhuo Shengli and his wife who rescued him, and took refuge with his nephew Qiu Wenyuan. The five went north to join Asi, but found him down. Fortunately, with the help of the rich widow Bai Bingbing, the seven-member universal service company has experienced the warmth and coldness of human feelings, experienced the dignity of life, and reflected on innocent humanity. When the business is successful, the underworld seeks revenge, and the seven work together to subdue it. Qiu Wenyuan married Cai Jiahong, and the story of Cai using a steam roller to crush smuggled pistols at the wedding.

Taiwanese horror.

France, 17th century. As a secret plot is on motion to overthrow King Louis XIII, the little daughter of Dogtanian, the brave muskehound of the Royal Guard, is kidnapped. (Edited version of the 1991 animated television series The Return of Dogtanian.)

Dolly, a lovely, adorable little girl from the mountain region. Due to the death of her parents, she was sent to her parents' friend, Mrs. Chu's care. When Dolly and her mini pig playmate, Guava, first came to Taipei, they brought a great change in the life of the Chu family and created a series of thrilling amusing incidents. One day, Papa Chu brought Guava to the office but negligently lost it. When Dolly heard that Guava got lost, she was very sad and decided to leave home to search for Guava. In order to help Dolly, Chu Pi, Papa Chu's son, called his buddies to join Dolly in the search of Guava. An interesting, worrying search journey by a group of children began...

A woman who is restless in the house either lacks sexual love or true love. Even a good woman can climb a wall, depending on whether you are willing to climb it or not

1990 Taiwan film, directed by Li-Kuo Yang.

A ritual about"memory". The words and phrases written on the paper are easy to understand but difficult to define, substituting the usual " incantations to gods". The spat out red matter suggests kind of "refusal". This kind of "nauseous" mixture combined with these moods represents a space : a space for painting.

At the end of 1999. A photographer enters a mountain to film a group of followers that run away from the real. She is held by a man and finds that the man has some connection to the followers.

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Taiwanese action film.

Queen Bee Lu Yi Chan stars in this superb Taiwan woman in prison film. The commander of a prison camp beats and tortures women to extract information about anti-Japanese resistance groups. More Taiwan exploitation in the tradition of Commando Fury.

Wily ace thief Trinity steals the dragon ball from Shaolin Temple. The dragon ball gets misplaced. Trinity joins forces with gruff, determined Interpol agent Bambino, formidable karate master Meng Ray, and feisty tour guide Wen Ling to retrieve the dragon ball before it falls into the hands of the wicked Paschy.

Rare new wave swordplay fantasy (a la Swordsman I, II, and III) starring Meng Fei and Leung Kar Yan.

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When a military contingent of "mythic" Americans arrive for war games in a little farming village in South Taiwan in the late 1960s, a veritable flood of hilarious cultural and linguistic misunderstandings is loosed on both sides.

Willy Fog, the most famous British gentleman, faces the depths of the sea when many ships mysteriously disappear.

Romance and office politics collide in this steamy thriller.

Also known as 'The Story of Xing Daji'.

A scientist is kidnapped from Hong Kong and taken to the Golden Triangle in Thailand.

In 1989, Jun-Jieh Wang enrolled in Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, a year when the Berlin Wall was pulled down and the fall of Communism in the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. He was astonished by these dramatic events. Several issues concerning politics, ideologies, aesthetics as well as the forms, market and power of art had been preying on his mind for so long that he lost the ability to make artworks and even questioned the value of the existence of art. His passively reactionary state of mind in this period was clearly reflected in the works simulating low-quality B-movies or TV programs, such as Killer Girl, Odyssey III (1990), Love, Die, Daredevil, Odyssey IV (1991).

The angel from heaven asks a man to return to the afterlife to find his true love before he can be reincarnated, but he returns to the afterlife as a woman...

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.

Since the early 1990s, there had been a deep concern in Taiwan about the Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant (aka the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant). In 1994, a local referendum at Gongliao, where the nuclear power plant was to be built, was held and 96% of voters voted against its construction. Chung Mong-hong combined images from the resistance with that of Taiwan's local festivities and religious ceremonies. Juxtaposed in an experimental style and accompanied by Christian chants, these images appear fragmented but reference each other, before transitioning to a more social realist style. The work depicts the shifting urban landscape of Taipei, capturing the collective memories of the locals, demonstrating Chung’s unique and astute observation of the society.

1993 film

Ah-Kuan, a teenager who grew up in a single-parent family, could not find warmth in his family, so he turned to friendship and love for solace. However, for the sake of friendship, he was caught in a dangerous storm and almost lost his life in the storm. It was also because of this storm that Ah-Kuan had the opportunity to go up the mountain, where he met an old Zen master and two young monks in a dilapidated temple.

It portrays the tumultuous life of a middle-class couple and the reshuffling of relationship dynamics when the woman's young assistant and their landlord become involved, presenting urban life as observed by Yang through a multitude of rapid dialogue.

During a sweltering summer day on a small island, messenger Qi finds the body of the team commander. Qi finds a grotesque style graffiti book in the commander's pant pocket. Afterwards, all the crazy situations depicted in the graffiti book invade Qi's life day by day. The death of the commander is closely related to another soldier, Yi San, who runs away with his gun and disappears. The dead commander's girlfriend Kang Hua immediately falls into the hands of the new commander...

Jade is a 30-year-old reporter who is after the story that will make her career. It turns out that a series of fires have been plaguing the city and a scoop on this story is just the thing she needs.

Short film by Yi-wen Chen.

As the director and the cameraman of a documentary project, Meng and Jianxian are travelling around Taiwan filming statues of religious and historical figures. Their conversations and debates on the statues often touch the political reality of Taiwan. Meng's girlfriend, Ning, is involved in a mediocre commercial feature film (initially as location scout and subsequently as an actress). Instead of realizing her ambition, she finds herself being exploited by the filmmakers. On the other hand, Meng and Ning's relationship is gradually faded.

A biographical documentary filmed in 1999 on the occasion of Chang Chao-tang (張照堂) receiving the National Award for Arts (國家文藝獎) in the Fine Arts category (美術類). In the film he is credited as both director and editor under the pseudonym “Gao Shang-tu” (高尚土)—a name derived by decomposing the character “tang” (堂) into its constituent elements “gao” (高), “shang” (尚), and “tu” (土). Semantically, the pseudonym implies a counter-reference to the notion of temple-like, institutional “high culture,” redirecting emphasis instead toward the vernacular and the earthy—suggesting that what is truly “noble” lies in the force emerging from the “soil” (土) of the people. For this reason, the film may also be understood as a semi-autobiographical documentary that carries an element of self-writing within its particular historical context.

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With his complexly plotted feature-film debut, shot entirely in widescreen black and white, Taiwanese director Fu Shan-Fong has created an often hilarious satire of filmmaking in Taiwan and a parody of cinema cliches resulting from the attempts of a group of hot young advertising executives to make a major motion picture. Each of the would-be filmmakers tends to make commercials that pay tribute to their favorite movie directors (who range from Ingmar Bergman to John Woo), and all are eager to realize their dream of making an art film. At first, the group faces so many obstacles the director kills himself in despair. Shortly thereafter they find a backer who unfortunately insists they make a Hollywood-style action thriller about Mafia arms smugglers called "Striking Back." Scenes from the investor's dream movie periodically appear throughout the story, and Shan-Fong uses them to parody Asian cinema's tendency to imitate and elaborate upon Western movie conventions.

The Petrel Returns is the story about the pioneer of Taiwan modern dancer Ms. Tsai Ruiyue, who was born in Tainan, and had been educated in Japan. After she came back from Japan, she had met the famous poet Mr. Lei Shiyu, soon they were engaged and married while Ms. Tsai Ruiyue had decided to devoted her life to dance art and education.She has founded the first dance theater: Chung Hua Dance Theater which has encouraged many potential Taiwanese dancers after WWII.

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A group of aimless Taipei residents deal with their personal problems in this Taiwanese drama that does feature brief flashes of black humor. Much of the story centers upon lonely Mrs. Chen who has trouble coping with her philandering husband, and nearly senile mother-in-law. Her daughter frequently sulks and has a desperate crush on one of her teachers. Mrs. Chen's only friend is her co-worker Liu, who has fallen for a new office boy, Chou. Mrs. Chen also finds him attractive. Unfortunately for either woman, Chou is gay and plagued with problems of his own.

An archival student film directed by Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin regarding a young man's complicated relationship with his deceased sister, based off of her serialized short fiction of the same name. Also called The Revelries of Ghosts.

The story of frivolous and lecherous emperor Qianlong's search for a morally upstanding person is told in a fashion that smartly fuses the puppet proscenium with the conventions of cinematic language. While everything is obviously arranged on a stage, the camera moves freely around in this environment, getting close to the puppets or setting them up in deep focus shots. The result is deeply enchanting, with the puppets soon feeling like living creatures of a very special kind, whose presence and company one cheerfully enjoys.

Is being in a foreign land, separated from one’s familiar daily life and human relationships, another form of escape? Four seemingly unrelated footages from CHUNG Mong-hong's overseas studies represent a contemplation of the foreign land and self-identity. Fleeting images of the city, surrealist compositions, the multifarious landscapes and imageries presage CHUNG’s early experimental features. The monologue at the end narrates the absence of the father and the resulting solitude and regret, reflecting CHUNG’s delicate sensibilities towards family and human relationship. The local religious chants serve as a stark cultural contrast against the life overseas, highlighting the cultural barriers and loneliness brought about by estrangement.

Chen Cheng-Tsai works primarily in video art, photography, and mixed media installations. This work was created during his postgraduate studies in Germany. The trees rotate 360 degrees, and the artit's face reflected in the water, distorted by the ripples, iss overlapped by the trees. The sound of a bell also plays a continuous rythm.

A-Te used to be a social movement fanatic. But after suffering the pain of divorce and the death of his child, he changed his profession and became a taxi driver. Ma Le, a young aboriginal man, came to Taipei alone to earn a living on construction sites. However, unable to bear the exploitation, and in a rage, Ma Le accidentally killed a site superintendent and was sentenced to death. A-Te gave Ma Le a ride in his taxi on the night that Ma Le committed the killing and their two fates were thereafter intertwined.

This is Taiwan's first documentary about comfort women. The audience gets a glimpse of history as 13 "grandmothers" speak of their unspeakable past, unknown even to their family, in front of the camera.