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A warrior is transported 1,000 years into the present day and must fend for his life while adapting to modern society

Chu Tien-Wen, frequent screenwriter for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, makes her directorial debut with this entry in The Inspired Island documentary series. With Hou as producer, cinematographer Yao Hung-I and editor Liao ChingSung, Chu takes a deep dive into the story of her parents, famed authors Chu Hsi-Ning and Liu Mu-Sha. Through family albums, old letters and interviews with fellow writers, Chu crafts a deeply personal portrait of her parents’ romance, literary careers, family roots and the unfinished opus her father left behind.

Two best friends, Mugen and Bingjie, are both re-taking the college entrance exam. As comrades, they understand and support each other’s dreams. On this day, Bingjie, as usual, goes over to Mugen’s house. They soon shift from earnestly preparing for the college interview to having a few drinks and having a heart-to-heart talk, cherishing these final days of their struggle together. However, a secret is unveiled under the influence of alcohol. On this stormy winter night, their relationship begins to falter…

Blues Biyori has multi-meanings literally. Blues can be explained as “blues music” or “melancholy”; Biyori is a Japanese word, which means” a good day for⋯”

An elderly Taiwanese farmer faces new struggles when his children attempt to put him into aged care.

In 1996, Dr Wen's son, committed suicide in their home in Iowa City. Devastated, Dr Wen moved to Miami and years later would treat a young boy from Peru with cancer named Sebastian. Sebastian's optimism inspires Dr. Wen as we follow this inspiring story of youth and compassion.

The lives of a generation were changed by a pile of charges and imprisonment. If the young people had known what shape the suffering would take, would they have still tried so bravely to change the world? Hong Kong's social activism resulted in the police arresting 10,279 people. Among these, 2,899 have already gone through or are going through the legal process. Around 80% have been found guilty and sentenced to prison. The documentary A Thousand Winds converts the numbers back into people to show how they are responding to the trial in their youth.

Zatoichi goes to Taiwan to fight the Chinese.

The love bug strikes two young sisters at about the same time. Since the two sisters happen to be in love with the same person, chaos and confusion is brought into their once serene home.

Chia plays a government agent, Iron Phoenix, who’s after a bunch of crooked miners, and Barry plays a boastful young man without much fu talent. Iron Phoenix teaches Barry some martial arts skills, mainly because it helps her investigations about the miners, as she waits for her chance to strike and close down their illicit operation.

In Northeastern China, a pair of filmmakers recording a shaman's succession become caught in a deadly ritual, as a terrifying nightmare unfolds.

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

Taiwan Drama starring Ko Chun-Hsiung

One night, Deng's favorite live streamer Annie announces she would quit the streaming. At the same moment, the Internet is mysteriously disconnected around the world. To see Annie again, Deng starts his journey searching for signals in the dark city.

The true story of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star; a husband and father whose world-wide fame came from the portrayal of women. His fascinating life was the basis for the feature film Farewell My Concubine.

A couple, through a twist of fate, are forced to confront each other’s true desires.

The emperor, too impatient to wait for his ministers to present portraits of the renowned beauties, had already heard tales of two stunning courtesans working at a teahouse, admired for their beauty but refusing to sell their bodies. Claiming ill health to avoid morning court, he secretly left the capital in disguise to see them with his own eyes. On the road, he was attacked by bandits but was rescued by a young nobleman, who then joined him on his journey.

Financial woes causes a young woman to turn to the oldest profession for work. Her sacrificial deeds to raise her siblings are left unappreciated by her younger sister.

Yu Tien Lung stars and directs this superb Kung Fu film using his deadly silver spear to vanquish an evil warlord and liberates the region from tyranny.

Wang Chen, a police of the government, was involved with a murder case and was put in prison. His brother disguised as Pink Panther and saved him from the prison, but then they were attacked by Japanese police.

The film was shot in two periods. Initially, during Kuo's visit to Ching-wen rebuilding his parents' home, unplanned as a documentary. Later, funding came, but Ching-wen left for Taipei. Kuo returned to Orchid Island, capturing memories of Ching-wen.

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The boy’s father devoted his whole life to this old movie theatre, and now it’s about to be destroyed.On the eve of the destruction, the boy crosses the demolition zone barriers and walks into the abandoned and desolate movie theater that was once so full of voices. For this one last time, the son and his father watch a film together in this cinema that holds so many memories.

An action-packed, flamboyant kung-fu adventure, based around a double revenge tale. The hero Kwan, stoic in the face of extremes, grits and airs his 'iron-fist' against the gun-toting baddies as he, single-handedly, decimates his adversaries. Demonstrating all the classic Chinese codes of restraint, asceticism and patience, Kwan reduces the complicated intrigue of plots.

Though Taiwan's rainfall is three times the global average, its uneven distribution creates striking scarcity. Water gives and takes; it sustains life yet brings destruction. Following the sound of currents, the film reflects on water's shifting states, capturing the emotional and spiritual ties woven between people, memory and the surrounding tides.

9-year-old Lan and his dad always enjoyed time together in Dad's boat art shop. One day Lan came home and suddenly found Dad dies. Lan is shocked. Dad disappears forever. Sister never cries and refuses to speak to Mom. And Mom insists to prepare a seat for Dad every dinner as if Dad were alive. What is worse, Lan's classmates often laugh at him. Lan starts fighting and running away from school. As life gets harsher, he receives a package. It is a strange-shaped clock which has stopped. Dad sent it before he dies. Lan visits many stores trying to fix the clock but in vain. He hope he will have answer for everything when he eventually solved the mystery of the clock...

One after another, female Vietnamese laborers arrive, suitcases in hand, at a dormitory from another dimension, cluttered with bunk beds and clothes. Here, they exchange their experiences, culminating in a unique upheaval.

While performing an opera about a princess whose misplaced love ends in her father’s death, a fallen kingdom, and her own suicide, a Taiwanese actress discovers she’s pregnant by her ex-husband. Caught between the roles she’s expected to play onstage and at home, she begins to sense another ending may be possible.

The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during the shooting of his movie Visage, which itself is also a movie within a movie.

YOSHIKAWA Hayao (1890-1959), pioneer of amateur cinema in Asia, authored over 160 books to share his passion during the 1930s. Years later, he rediscovered a forgotten dream from his youth: to create a sci-fi film set on the Moon.

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.

Taiwan martial arts film also known as 一代豪傑, Black Belt, or Black Belt The Roaming Hero (Wu Tang Collection).

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The documentary takes us on a journey to Sinje`s hometown of Alor Setar where she grew up with a strong sense of freedom in nature that shaped her into a fearless and positive person. Sinje reflects on the importance of childhood freedom and how it impacts character and outlook on life. Sinje shares her experiences of living fearlessly and embracing her passions as a modern working mother of three. Through her story, we explore the joys and challenges of motherhood, finding the balance between career and family, and prioritising self-care.

Taiwanese romantic comedy.

A montage film juxtaposing Taipei's urban landscape with audiovisual archives of the Tiananmen Square protests, constituting an experimental essay with documentary elements.

Raised in Japan, Yukiko’s education was made possible by a Taiwanese benefactor. As Expo ’70 nears, she becomes a hostess, determined to find her long-lost benefactor. Her search takes her across Osaka, Kobe, Nara, and Hokkaido, but every lead vanishes as quickly as it appears. Set against the 1970 Osaka Expo, this film stars Taiwanese-Japanese singer Judy ONGG, seamlessly blending music, dance, and documentary elements.

A family film from taiwan.

Ah Quan makes a living as a laborer, earning money through physical work. In his spare time, he enjoys gambling, with mixed results—sometimes winning, but mostly losing. As a result, aside from making ends meet, his savings are pitifully small. It wasn't until his elderly father, Ah Dong (played by Peng Yi), began frequently going in and out of the hospital that most of his income had to be spent on his father's medical expenses, prompting him to gradually quit gambling. However, watching his father suffer from illness and dealing with the pressure from his wife, Qiu Rong (played by Huang Jiefei), Ah Quan decided to take a gamble once more, hoping for a turnaround. Unfortunately, on the same day, his father's life came to an end, leaving Ah Quan torn between using his father's funeral savings and his hopes of hitting the jackpot.

Little Death, child of The Grim Reaper, have problems to follow the steps of his infamous father.

Ah Sheng, released after 25 years in prison for murder, faced uncertainty about life and his elderly father. At a welcome-back party thrown by his boss, Long Ge, Ah Sheng witnessed the boss attacking his child. He took the child to the hospital, discovering abuse, and decided to care for both the child and the old man, realising they had no home to return to.

In 2014, when protesting against the Cross-strait Service Trade Agreement that was hastily approved, a group of protesters stormed into the Taiwanese parliament and ended up occupying the assembly hall for 24 days. Questions are raised - what is democracy? What is the government? What is violence? What is our future? What is the happiness we seek? Who is "we"?

A creature with a pig head and a human body is born. As it becomes more human-like, it is ready to make over the inequality between humans and pigs.

When you're the best fighter around, you'd better be prepared to prove it! No sooner was a new security escort for the Imperial Governor chosen, and then he was challenged to a duel and slain right before his family's eyes by a mysterious traveling swordsman known only as The Thunder Sword who disappears and is never to be heard from again.

Mak-Leung is a young woman from the Sung Dynasty era who, from birth, is fated for a great destiny. One day a white dragon emerges from a well in her family's back yard and hands her a wordless book with which she can save the world.

Hsiao-jing truly admires Miss Hui. Zhi-ya, who likes Hsiao-jing knows that. The two girls grow closer as they follow Miss Hui after school. However, their friendship starts to fall apart when they learn about Miss Hui's secret...

Photography that captures the past turns into a photo lost in somewhere, she disappears yet I feel relieved to lose everything.

Life in Fung Yang Village is rather rigid & traditional. Women seem to take the blame if a bad deed is committed. In this male dominated society, a young woman is forced to leave her village & her family after being raped.

A conservative Taiwanese mother and a British gay man meet to discuss his involvement in her son’s life and the finer details of her son’s death.

In a world where the "Rememory" device allows people to relive fragments of their past memories, many choose to escape reality and immerse themselves in nostalgic reverie. This widespread addiction prompts the government to ban the device. Unable to let go of her past, Alexia decides to relive her cherished memories one last time before the system is shut down. But as she embarks on her nostalgic journey, she encounters an unexpected guest in her memories, leading to unforeseen revelations and a confrontation with reality.

In a small town, a glamorous hairdresser from Shanghai makes all the men crazy for her, and arouses the jealousy of the local women. Only a little boy notices her unknown past.

Xiaowei disappeared, and the divorced couple began to search for their son's whereabouts. With a photo of Xiaowei's injury, they found Wang Hao, the young man who was carrying the secret. Following the clues left by Xiao Wei, we discover step by step the unknown side of Xiao Wei; Xiao Wei still has not come back, but every moment everyone lives, it is as if Xiao Wei has never left.