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In this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?

After orphan Fung Ma-Chun marries Tzu Feng he learns the truth of his parents' death. The newlywed couple of sword-fighters set out for revenge, but their path is beset by surprise and tragedy.

Taiwan wuxia directed by Joseph Kuo

A documentary included with Jolin Tsai's 2006 compilation album J-Top. Includes behind the scenes footage of music videos, performance recordings, and various other content such as dance practice recordings.

Taiwanese movie

Return to the Land

Joanna's son has been missing for years. Before forgetting him due to dementia, she decides to embark on a final journey to find her son. Taxi driver Peng, who immigrated to Taiwan from Hong Kong in his early years, still cares about his hometown. In the process of assisting Joanna, Peng also got redemption from the melancholy of leaving home.

Three mothers became friends because of their kids with autism. They learn, encourage, and support each other. Although they live in different regions of Taiwan, they form a strong relationship and connection. The tough moms arrange trips and visit each other with their kids, helping these Asperger syndrome kids to experience different family lifestyles, learn social skills, build and maintain relationships.

Apin returns to the forgotten village, a place that has long been abandoned. At night, he steps on to a sacred spot, clad in the traditional Pangcah attire. He starts a lonely dance and song, with no-one there to hold his hands.

A Japanese dance revue show modeled on the artistic modulations in traditional Japanese performances.

A Taiwanese language film

Mischievous female ghost pesters a "country bumpkin" in the big city.

A stormy night, Chou Hung Yieh, a dress designer, saved a pregnant woman on the road. When he went to search for a doctor, he lost his life in a car accident. The woman soon gave birth to a baby girl, Ting Ting. Then she vanished leaving the baby to Chou's wife, Tang Ching Ju...

Taiwanese movie production

My Nostalgia, My Songs is a poetic documentary centered on Lin Hwai-min’s landmark dance work for Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. The music, curated by iconic photographer Chang Chao-tang, weaves Taiwanese folk melodies into reflections on urban migration and collective memory. Through the cinematography and editing of Christopher Doyle, the stage becomes a cinematic space, transforming performance into a sensory meditation on Taiwanese identity and cultural displacement in the 1980s.

A drifting soul is searching for meaning and connection after leaving home.

Returning home for his mother's birthday, Jhe-Ming must decide if he’s ready to reveal his secret: he’s married to the man he loves.

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.

Comedy about a businessman who hires killers to kill himself when he goes bankrupt.

Polly's father is murdered, and it's up to her, her brothers, and the "Sword King" (Roc Tien Ping) to avenge him.

A back-and-forth correspondence between two filmmakers living in Beijing and Tokyo. It began during the COVID-19 pandemic when it was difficult for them to meet in person and continued until 2024. The resulting work, employing various forms such as animation, collage, and 8mm film, develops through quoting each other’s images and sounds, and the result shimmers with the joy of “this is personal cinema!”

After a one night stand, a successful single mother helps her son find his father by placing an ad in the newspaper.

A stolen missile design, miniaturised and hidden within a pair of sunglasses, is smuggled through Macau. Rival intelligence networks converge to intercept the device, triggering a covert operation of infiltration, counterintelligence, and complex technological espionage amid a rapidly escalating international spy war.

Documenting outsider artist Lin Yuan (林淵, 1913-1992), a self-taught folk artist from Nantou (南投), and his stone sculptures—works marked by simplicity, naturalness, and a vital rural vernacular spirit.

Taiwanese movie

Caring for an autistic adult can be seen as an act of faith. It is unpredictable. A regular interaction can lead to a violent lashing-out. However, due to its lack of exposition and its pure form of observation, the film captures something even more profound: life as a collection of failure, pain, and tragedy as felt by its protagonist, Chen Hung-tung, a father who cares with extraordinary patience for his autistic son Li-fu.

Inspired by Taiwan's Municipal Banqiao High School Skirt Event, "Rose Skirt" depicts a high school boy named Xiao Yan who realises his desire for women's clothing but is afraid of revealing his secret, a vague sense of guilt and shame that has become a part of his everyday life.

When a sci-fi film crew invades eccentric alien enthusiast Homer’s “cosmic sanctuary” to shoot aliens as villains, he leaps into action to defend his turf—and to show them what real extraterrestrials are all about.

Footage from milet's first overseas solo live concert "Hey Taipei, I'm milet", held in Taipei on November 30, 2023.

Taiwanese crime drama.

Heartbeat Love is a miniseries that chronicles the love story between two travellers (Show and Rainie) who happen to share a hotel room in Australia by accident. Rainie initially mistakes Show for being gay, but eventually discovers that he is straight, resulting in a very angry Rainie! However, through the whole trip, the two of them grow close and end up confiding their innermost thoughts and emotions to each other.

In the early days of the war of resistance against the foreign power invasion, Wu is captured and most of his family members are brutally murdered. Wu swears to seek revenge. He tracks down the murderers one by one.

The most deadly fighter on earth, a man so dangerous in combat he only uses one hand, is after the greatest book ever written. This book, a tutorial in the "mantis fist", must be protected by an unlikely band of hero's.

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

Bloodshed follows the never-ending struggle of a swordsman's soul to make good of his skills.

The fierce and domineering Lee Volcano specializes in animal rescue and has lynched animal cruelty offenders. Some activists hate his style, but some supporters believe he has done justice to the ineffective animal protection laws.

Three people, a lesbian couple and a man they meet at a club, embark on a wild adventure to deliver drugs, only to find a series of uncontrollable events from this dangerous menage a trois relationship . As their world blurs and they lose their innocence, what’s left is the sobering impact of reality and survival.

A strict father and his two boys share a calm life in a creaky old home. One summer moment changes everything for the brothers.

A young swordsman is sent to the city of Lo Yang to help his father's benefactor Inspector Chang from the four monsters-which are causing him a lot of grief. Four of the most violent martial artists in China.

Taiwanese movie

Chou is a bit of an asshole. His habits include squatting, hanging out on the street, and teasing his old pal Deng. In his eyes, this is his world. One day, he finds out there are still some tragedies that he cannot handle.

In 2010, director Lin Cheng-sheng made Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, a documentary about autistic children and their teacher Han Shu-hua, who taught her young charges to express themselves through art. In this moving follow-up, Lin once again follows Han, who has since founded a shelter institute where autistic children can nurture their talents in painting and music. Because of their inability to effectively communicate their emotions and thoughts, people with autism can often be treated like outsiders. To inspire empathy for them, Lin made this moving documentary that embraces the diversity that these talented individuals and their stirring works of art bring to our lives.

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!

One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jincheng, in the province of Liaoning (North-East China), to re-paint again friends and relatives after several years have gone by. With a soundtrack by famed composer Lim Giong (Millennium Mambo, The Assassin).

In Taiwan’s struggles for housing justice, it is always the women who hold on until the very end, standing guard over the home. For them, it may be their grandfather’s home, their father’s, their husband’s, or the future home of their children—but rarely their own. These women support one another, refusing to yield, and with resilience they resist the state, the law, and powerful corporations under a patriarchal system. Told from a female perspective, this film asks: what does “home” truly mean to them? Why can they endure for so long, refusing to leave? And, at the same time, it confronts another question—where are the men?

Once a top waterskiing prodigy, a young man alienates his three godfathers and shuts out the world after a career-ending injury. His life finds light again when he meets a mysterious girl, but his desperate need to prove his worth leads him to pawn his late father’s keepsake for a luxury car. Consumed by vanity, he allows materialism to erode their pure love, eventually driving her away. Now hitting rock bottom in a desolate reality, he must decide whether to remain in despair or find the strength to face his past and seek the redemption he so desperately needs.

This is a story about ?evil inside ?, based on a true Taiwan social event. ?Evil inside? means the devil lives inside your heart, or the darkness inside your conscious; such as fear?hatred?greed?pride?stubbornness?selfishness. The darkness can be always exit, or come out in a sudden. It can hide and grow deeply in your mind to make you either become stronger or to be overwhelmed. The story happens in the present day of Taiwan society. ?The deceased collaborated organization ?as so called ? D.C.O. ?or ? The Help ? has existed in Taiwan for at least 30 years. The purpose of this organization to be founded is to help the family members taking care of the funeral affairs when their elderlies passed away. Because of the certain amount of money involved, some greedy businessmen take the advantage of elderlies? ?death? as a huge profit to lure people by gambling. Sadly, the gamblers sometimes includes the family members of the deceased...

A professional hit-man is hired to take out a target -- however, his girlfriend’s pregnancy gives him second thoughts. He decides that after this job, he will renounce his profession and turn himself in. This is the first feature film from Taiwanese director Alex Yang, who participated in script-writing and production on Edward Yang's early films. "The Trigger" has echoes of Yang's "Mahjong." The actors in the film, except for veteran Ngai Man-Yin, are all new faces -- unfortunately, Ngai's death in 2005 also made "The Trigger" his last appearance on screen.