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They are the girls of the night. This is their base of operations, House 102, to be exact. Here they answer calls from the many hotels, ride out there on the back of motorcycles and give their jaded customers what is generally described as a nice time. Hu Ma, manager, transport man, body guard and procurer of House 102 discovers A-chiao at the railway station and is delighted to know she is a virgin...
Son and father are driving on the highway. The son keeps asking questions until he finally notices the changes in his father's body. The dialogue in the animation is taken from a recording of a real conversation between the filmmaker and his father.
A romance about a girl who falls in love and marries a music teacher. The couple struggle through life as the man does not want to accept money from his rich father.
Taiwan Supernatural melodrama 2010, colour, 1.85:1, 104 mins Directed by Wang Shau-di
Zhu Ge Liang stars as Wang Fu Gui, the 18th generation master of Baoping Temple. Despite his auspicious name, Wang is in reality a hopeless gambler who never wins. After going broke, he moves south in hopes of mooching off his wealthy brother-in-law (Namewee), but as life would have it, his brother-in-law suffers a stroke. Wang's luck takes another turn, however, when he meets female ghost Lin Qing Xia (Amber An), a famous singer who died 30 years ago. Wang utilizes Qing Xia's powers to help others, earning him the reputation of being a living deity. Meanwhile, Qing Xia wants Wang to help resolve her grudge.
On her wedding day, Xiao Xuan faces mounting doubts under family pressure, societal expectations, and ritual burdens. Told through her friend Renjie's perspective, the story follows her brief escape from the ceremony, sparking chaos in her absence. As tensions rise, the line between personal choice and duty blurs.
The first part of the folk opera story “Beggar and Rich Girl,” (乞食與千金) a traditional Taiwanese opera. The sequel is titled Chien-Lung, the Little Hero (劍龍小飛俠).
It is a documentary on food design, redefining food through the lens of creativity and design. The film features interviewees from Italy, Spain, Taiwan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
An enchanting fusion of choreography and cinema, IMMORTELLE is a broken-love story that creatively envisions the trials of separation. Having just split, the protagonists try to go about their daily lives, but lingering feelings materialize into the outside world. Their bare and unwelcoming interiors, echoing the emptiness within, are invaded by cadaveric doubles of the former lovers. These figments of the characters' minds struggle as if in a battle for life and death, the relationship’s dying breath. A deeply emotional experience, this is a film about feelings so strong that, in their quest for closure, they overpower reality.
Taiwanese youth film.
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.
A short film by Wang Chu-Chin. The first winner of Golden Harvest Award in Taiwan.
In a world of mentally imprisoned mannequins, a restorer and her beloved female mannequin depend on each other for survival.
A cancer patient who is looking for redemption forms an unexpected bond with a nurse who is questioning her life choices
A-Hu, who is born into a small family during an economic crisis. His mother works at recycling with her son A-Hu and his brothers until A-Hu leaves home. Although he has left, he keeps an eye on his mother in order to protect her from a group of people who bully her. During a fight with the bullies, he accidentally kills one and goes to jail. After being released from prison Ahu and his brother join forces with their brother in a gang.
Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, directed by Olivier Assayas.
This is a story located in a small town in Taiwan during the 50's and 60's. Mei-Hsia is from the most prominent family in town. Yun-Lang works in the local peasant assocation. They like each other, but Mei-Hsia is afraid to tell her mother about their seeing each other. They wait till Yun-Lang sends a matchmaker to Mei-Hsia's family. There was no way that Mei-Hsia's family would agree to their marriage. Mei-Hsia's parents send her to a relative in the northeast of Keelung, in an attempt to stop them from seeing each other, but Yun-Lang follows her there. Mei-Hsia's relative doesn't stop them until Mei-Hsia's mother finds out. Now their love is an open affair. This time, it's the Mei-Hsias turn to propose a marriage between the two families. To everyone's surprise, the Yun-Langs turn it down. Mei-Hsia and Yun-Lang planned to elope, but they failed. She kills herself. At last, Yun-Lang can call Mei-Hsia his wife by marring her memorial tablet.
Dragos Binder is doing research in order to write a fiction film based on the true event of his parents fleeing the country in the 80s communist Romania, but then he changes the subject, moving the camera lens on himself.
In November, 2008, Chen Yun-lin visited Taiwan, a critical moment in history where the first official Chinese envoy to ever step on Taiwan soil in 60 years. Meanwhile, Taiwan people's freedom of speech and personal liberty were severely suppressed by the state apparatus. Student protesters assembled via internet networking all over the place, to voice their anger at the abuse of their common value. In the course of the struggle, suspicion arises among members of the movement due to ideological differences and distrust. They are engrossed in activism, schoolwork, active citizenship, politics, passion and self-reflection. Here in Taipei, in this square, in their twenties.
30 years after the Taiwanese New Wave first emerged, the veterans such as Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang remain active in their careers. Ten of Edward Yang's former assistants have become directors. The filmmakers of the younger generation are facing a Taiwanese audience hungry for films that link them with Taiwanese society, whether they are fictional or not.
Wandering endlessly between pure incoherence and a tragedy rife with dramatic possibilities, Lau Kwok-Hung sets up the murder mystery of a, low and behold, killer who strikes during rainy nights.
After her father, a judge, is murdered by corrupt officials, a young woman must set out do recover the Blood Rain Sword, which her father had left to her, and encounters obstacles from the villainous Chao Pai.
Embarrassed by her un-American look, a young girl betrays her younger sister during their first Sunday at a Chinese-American church.
A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”.
Shen Chiahg is an erotic photographer haunted by the ghostly apparition of a girl murdered in an adjoining apartment. He lives in a swirling nightmare of perverse sex and Daliesque images. He no longer knows the differences between reality and fantasy. In fact, Shen doesn't even know if he's dreaming or if he's awake.
A Taiwanese Martial Arts film
Ah Fei, a Vietnamese who left home to work in Taiwan, escapes from his Taiwanese employer in hope to earn more money to send back home to his father. One day, he runs into Ah Hai, a police patrol officer, at the beach. Ah Hai sees Ah Fei in possession of syringes and uses the baton on him without giving him a chance to explain. By the beach, nine shots were eventually fired at Ah Fei. It’s the first time Ah Fei’s father is travelling out of Vietnam, only to be bringing home his son’s lifeless body.
The emotional journeys of a widow and the man her husband loved. Kind, handsome and talented, Da Wei found success at a young age as an architect and built a happy marriage with Mei Xiu. In the eyes of outsiders, they are the perfect couple. After going through a near-death experience, Da Wei begins to fear that his life will end in a lie and finally chooses to confront his true self. He meets and falls in love with Guan Jie, and the two secretly carry on a relationship for a decade until his death. After Da Wei passes away, Mei Xiu finds that he left behind a wish list for her. The wish list leads her onto a meaningful trip around the city she calls home, and along the way, she encounters and befriends Guan Jie.
Yu Tien Lung returns to his hometown to avenge the murder of his parents, a task in which he is prepared himself for by studying martial arts for twenty years. His resolution wavers when, after successfully killing the lesser villains, he falls in love with the daughter of the enemy. Will he now be able to take revenge for his parents’ murder?
Actor & Singer Richie Ren personally produce, direct, and starred in this documentary, to showcase the eventful annual nine days Mazu Procession.
Footage from milet's first overseas solo live concert "Hey Taipei, I'm milet", held in Taipei on November 30, 2023.
Freelance taxi driver A-Tien fights against a tyrannical taxi union to protect the taxi industry.
Taiwanese horror movie from 1977.
The innocent children in the village are happy to play in the village, singing nursery rhymes. Such a scenario no longer exists. The village children disappeared out of thin air, adults panicked, the village's one-eyed old yin and yang mother-in-law said that the legendary Tiger Gospel again appeared sixty years later. As the case is unusual, the police sent out excellent young police officers.
Inspired by an ancient Chinese ghost story, the tale that goes beyond what viewers usually expect in the ghost movies and further to challenge the traditional story-telling pattern.
Xu Chia-yang, a 30-year-old woman who ran into a brick wall in her life, chose to run away from her dream of being a professional boxer. Chen Li-yue, a strict coach with rigid discipline, chose to give up her professional coaching after an accident brought a coma to a student. Can they fight their inner devils and turn their fates around?
A mountain girl sets out to avenge her murdered father.
The Master of Manchuria's most renowned school of kung-fu is slaughtered when he resists the invading Japanese. His eldest son is beaten so badly he becomes mentally retarded. The second son, Lui, surrenders and joins the army - much to the derision of the villagers. The last son disappears. When a masked man begins appearing and making trouble at the Japanese army bases, Lui is ordered to find and kill him. He almost succeeds, but at the last moment discovers the masked man's secret...
An insight into the lives of young prostitutes and a drug addict.
In Singapore, executions take place at dawn. Years after her brother’s death sentencing for drug trafficking, a sister duo continues their early-morning journeys, carrying the quiet aftermath of a punishment the city no longer sees.
Wei-su gets injured. Her daughter rushes to the hospital. While looking after her, her daughter realizes how distant they are from each other, but they both long to be understood.
Taiwanese romantic comedy.
Tsay Fu-ming was once an addicted gambler, being unemployed all the time, and only knew practicing boxing as soon as he had time. Nonetheless, he is still loved deeply by his girlfriend, Sheau Huey. After a fight, a village bully named Ah Lu bears enmity for Ming. Later he forces Fu-ming’s girlfriend to marry him and makes the village head to expel Fu-ming from the village.
Five pretty girls go to Hong Kong to stay with their uncle who is a police superintendent. Soon they run into a gang of thieves, which gives them a chance to put their excellent kung fu skills to good use. This Bod Squad will kick your ass!
Short animation by Po Chou Chi
Young Meng Rou-lan loves ballet, but cannot perform as she has polio. She is raised by her father on an orchid farm. His unconditional love sees Meng through her recovery. As she matures to adulthood, Meng learns to treasure her independence.
I transcribe a relationship on film with what I find at home: the flower baby’s breath, love letters my father wrote and sun print papers my lover gave me. This film is a dedication to Shadow Film: A Woman with Two Heads (Nito-onna: Kage No Eiga) (1977) by Shuji Terayama - Erica Sheu
The story of how a high school teacher overcomes all the problems and difficulties with problem students as well as other unfavorable circumstances in his teaching.