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Anne—seated in an obstetrics and gynecology clinic—grapples with a heart-wrenching dilemma: whether to terminate her unexpected pregnancy to pursue a high-paying job in the United States or stay in Taiwan and embrace life as a single mother. As the conflict between her rationality and emotions intensifies, her deep-seated fear of family life emerges like an unfathomable monster from within, threatening to consume her entirely.
Xie Junya is a teenage girl who possesses the innate ability to see the dead, a problem that has troubled her for a long time. She sought help at a temple, but the problem was not solved. Instead, many devotees gather to ask her questions about their deceased loved ones and even winning lottery numbers. Her work as a psychic leaves her with no time to practice baseball. What she really cares about is whether a guy in her school’s baseball team likes her. The boy she has a crush on invites Junya to his birthday party. However, there is a long line of people waiting at the temple for her advice. How will she choose between love and her sacred mission?
Lo Tong Conquers the North
In this futuristic world of 204X, everyone has the chance to freely choose their gender when they come of age. Yi An, a young person on the edge of seventeen, likes and prefers girly and feminine aesthetics. He feels that he isn't masculine enough, but he doesn't feel like a woman either. Yi An is in love with his classmate Zhou Yang Kai, but she expects him to become a girl. Yi An questions whether his attraction to Zhou Yang Kai is based on a gender preference or a connection of souls.
At the end of WWII, the Nationalist party of Republic of China, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), took control of Taiwan and imposed martial law for 38 years. This period is known as the White Terror, where anyone suspected go being a Communist agent was hunted down. Through a 7-year-old girl’s point of view, The Black Kite brings us back to the innocent, yet high-handed time of the 1960s Taiwan.
For a few years, Tshan-tsui and his wife enjoyed a loving marriage. However, Tshan-tsui’s recent long hours at work have left his wife feeling neglected. Suspecting he might be having trouble in the bedroom, she embarks on a series of strategies to boost his virility. But when all her efforts fail, her thoughts turn to the possibility of another woman. Her neighbor, Mrs.Iap, offers one last piece of advice—a surefire plan to make Tshan-tsui pay attention to his gorgeous wife!
A Hakka singer who desires to complete her dream, and an aboriginal woman who wants to break free and a Hakka forensic personnel who has the deepest secret in her heart. These three women are standing out for the Hakka people who are facing difficulties in life.. And the story is about the process that they find for themselves. However, the story starts from two suicide cases.
Kabukicho, located on the east side of Shinjuku, is one of the more famous red light districts in Tokyo. There are over 3000 registered bars, and at least 1000 of them are Taiwanese-owned. In the late 1970s, over 10,000 Taiwanese women left for Japan for work and wealth. Most of them settled in Shinjuku. The women worked over 20 years at bars to send money back home
Taiwanese horror movie from 1981.
The Silent Thrush is a fascinating mixture of exoticism and eroticism. It tells the story of Mu Yun, a young woman who joins a Taiwanese opera company. Ka-hung, the company's star actress (who is Mu Yun's childhood idol) soon falls in love with Mu Yun. This provokes the intense jealousy of Ka-hung's longtime lover, Ai-cheng. Their melodrama of lesbian love is played out against the backdrop of the troupe's day-to-day problems.
In 1871, a ship traveling from Miyako Island to Shuri to deliver annual tribute was caught in a storm and drifted to southern Taiwan. Onboard were 69 Ryukyuan passengers who reached an area inhabited by the Paiwan people. However, some Ryukyuans were killed in a tragic incident that later became known as the Mudan Incident. This event was used as a pretext for Japan’s invasion of Taiwan (the 1874 Taiwan Expedition) and also influenced Japan’s annexation of Ryukyu, significantly shaping the geopolitical landscape of East Asia.
The devil, longing for the angel's love, put him in a cage to make the angel accept him, and even did things that hurt the angel's siblings. However, these actions caused irreversible and serious consequences.
A car crash test dummy makes a flipbook to express the existence of itself.
A documentary short about a man constructed facial mask map during the pandemic.
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...
Haunted by past failure, Ah-Zhi faces towering stakes that mirror his inner fears. Pressured by his mother to focus on exams, he sinks into doubt—until Xiao-You's quiet support helps him rise. In overcoming fear, he begins to truly see himself.
This short film was shot in 2002 during Bilan du Film Ethnographic for the purpose of introducing Jean Rouch to the audience at 2003 Taiwan International Ethnographic film festival. Unexpectedly, Jean Rouch passed away in 2004. In this film Jean Rouch talked about his new marriage, his anger towards the moving of the artifacts of the Mankind Museum, his anarchistic nature, his dreams and fantasies, etc.
With only a blurry photo and an unfinished novel, a Taiwanese novelist struggling with writer’s block decides to travel to New York and search for his past lover from ten years ago. Along the way, he meets a documentary filmmaker who films this process.
Taiwan movie
Taiwanese drama.
A love letter in collage style, consisting of found footage and a strange reading of Kang-Chien Chui’s work, karaoke and diary videos.
The beautiful Shan Shan has two men who loves her, the arrogant young Lung Fong and the humble Tze Wei, but for the luck of Tze Wei, Shan Shan loves him, and arouses the wrath of Fong, who ends up getting involved with the beautiful, malicious and ill-loved Meng Li, who had already taken an out of Tze Wei, and sees in Fong a chance to get well, only he wanted it as a hobby, because his will is to marry Shan Shan. Meng Li can not bear to lose two men to Shan Shan, she sends some henchmen to kidnap her, now it's up to Tze Wei to save her.
John Liu stars as Shao Yu Pai, master of the "northern kick" kung-fu, still seeking revenge for the death of his brother. Evidence mounts that Lu Tung Chung (Alexander Lo), master of the "southern fist" kung-fu, is the culprit. What Shao doesn't realize, however, is that the true villain is subtly manipulating both the martial artists behind the scenes, hoping to force them into a confrontation and have the dirty work done for him.
At a train station floating in the cloud, a mysterious red tail catches the boy’s attention. Chasing the red tail, the boy travels through countless magical places, runs into bizarre creatures, and finally he meets the gentleman, who seems to know his secrets more than he does. When the red tail reminds the boy of his own memory and sadness, what are the secrets hidden behind, and where will they lead him next? Inspired by Wang’s same named comic story, the mysterious red tail leads viewers on a magical journey, creating a poetic metaphor of people’s childhood memories.
Factory captures a group of women workers reenacting their duties in an abandoned garment factory where they had formerly been employed. The work was made after many industries were moved abroad to reduce personnel costs and workers laid off unlawfully, without severance or pension payments. Intercut with clips appropriated from propaganda ads, Factory scrutinises the expressions and gestures of the women as they work, as well as the sculptural assemblies of dusty tables, chairs and other objects lingering in the space.
The stubborn girl and the supernatural boy embark on a magical youth journey to find the ghost father who accidentally died! Whether we want to or not, whether we see ghosts or not, there are always some invisible and unspeakable ghosts closely following us... Perhaps falling in love is like being haunted by ghosts, so this "ghost" story and "love" story is staged lively.
劇中人物由菱，身為禮儀師， 深知死亡帶來的悲傷， 除了「不捨」，更多是「遺憾」。 由菱藉著己身特殊的感應能力， 傳達死者來不及說出口的話， 彌補了生者的遺憾，得到慰藉。 但由菱對自己母親卻因誤會， 早已不再往來， 直到由菱發生車禍， 一連串的後續影響揭開了當年的真相， 由菱這才知道自己錯怪了媽媽， 無奈這時的由菱， 已是一縷幽魂， 在行往另個世界的旅途中了…… 由菱沒想到，她看盡人生無常的悔憾， 最後同樣的事也發生在了自己身上。 人常說，生命短暫，所以值得珍惜； 而「當下」，瞬間即成「過往」， 因此更顯把握不易。 但願每個靈魂在跨越生死界線時， 都是一個美麗旅程的結束， 也是另一個美麗旅程的開始。
On a secluded island, a chair has fallen down.
On a mountain climbing trip, a man falls into a mysterious forest. In a trance, he beholds a woman in white approaching. Tempted to stay but yearns to escape, he repeats this cycle day and night. Failing to locate the exit, he gradually wanes and ages, finding himself lost both in the forest and in time.
Taiwanese drama film.
Chiang is a humble, law-abiding man who drives his rickshaw, making a meager yet honest living. Then trouble comes forward in the form of money, women and crime. He reacts in the only way he knows how. Chiang is a kung fu expert who explodes when pushed too far! Nothing fancy about his technique. He bashes and smashes all who stand in front of him. See Chiang rip an army of gangsters to pieces in the roughest kung fu action ever!
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.
RARE Swordplay Classic!!
Taiwanese fantasy film.
Polly's father is murdered, and it's up to her, her brothers, and the "Sword King" (Roc Tien Ping) to avenge him.
The story unfolds in "the realm of bears" that is the heart of the Yushan National Park. It is a place brimming with wildlife ecosystems and aboriginal culture. Fascinated by the area, one female ecologist started her journey searching for bears in 1998 while subsequently developing a close companionship with a Bunun hunter in the midst of this wilderness. Together with copious research, the secret of the Taiwan Black Bear is thus revealed.
He has tattoos. He writes poems. He paints. He has done a few dirty jobs. When he was in prison for the second time, he received a literary award. He always looks for work, friends, love, but gets lost again and again... He is Weiming, a pen name he adopted when he was in junior high school.
Sunday, at the South-East Asian entertainment complex First Square in Taichung, two Filipinos, Jane, a domestic caregiver, and Randy, a factory worker, make acquaintance. In the precious hours of their day off, together, the two companions in foreign land spend a lovely Sunday.
A homeless woman, a loitering housekeeper, a man who lost his key and the children hiding in the suitcase-hiding, seeking and chasing in the castle. "I'm going to meet the king. If you don't stay in the room and run out. Beasts will eat you up." In the empty castle. A loitering housekeeper looking for the body day and night. Woman chasing the king who lost the key. The kids who playing hide and seek in order to find the mother, regardless beasts outside and walk into deeper darkness.
Taiwanese movie
A documentary on the maker movement and its impact on society, culture and economy in the U.S.
Taiwanese teen film, part of the same series as Chu Yen-ping's "Seven Foxes" and its sequel.
Taiwanese movie
Taiwanese drama
Four years ago, an accident chasing the swordfish took away the life of Captain Fu’s elder son. It was the last time the giant swordfish was seen. With no fish to catch, his other son Yee thinks about transforming the business. At the moment when their boat Victory is about to be abandoned, Fu meets a foreign boy Ruan who tells that the fish is still out there. Can’t resist the temptation, Captain Fu brings Yee and Ruan embarking on the journey to search for the giant swordfish. In their journey, Ruan encounters migrant workers, which triggers his memory as a wartime refugee. He recalls his dead mother’s words: “Never trust the people on the shore”. The obsessions that bring men to the sea eventually become their doom. Only one of them shall return.