After losing her job as a garment worker, Ling sees her prospects dim dramatically: in her mid forties, she lives in a small, dilapidated apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung and spends much of her time locked in arguments with her testy daughter. Her elderly mother is ailing in hospital. On one of her many visits to the ward she notices an injured man and tentatively starts to care for him.
陳湘琪
Ling-tzu
東明相
Chang Shih-chun, the hospital patient
温貞菱
Ling-tzu's daughter
黃采儀
Chia-chen
游安順
Ling-tzu's brother-in-law
白明華
Ling-tzu's Mother-in-Law
蔡明修
Clothes company boss
After losing her job as a garment worker, Ling sees her prospects dim dramatically: in her mid forties, she lives in a small, dilapidated apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung and spends much of her time locked in arguments with her testy daughter. Her elderly mother is ailing in hospital. On one of her many visits to the ward she notices an injured man and tentatively starts to care for him.
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.
In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.
A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can’t decide if she wants to live or die.
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.
คู่สามีภรรยาสองคู่ต้องปรับตัวเข้ากับการเปลี่ยนแปลงทางสังคมและเศรษฐกิจครั้งใหญ่ที่เกิดขึ้นในประเทศจีนตั้งแต่ช่วงทศวรรษ 1980 จนถึงปัจจุบัน
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
สุดขอบทะเลทรายโกบีในพื้นที่ทางตะวันตกเฉียงเหนือของประเทศจีน หลาง เดินทางกลับมายังบ้านเกิด หลังจากที่เพิ่งจะถูกปล่อยตัวออกมาจากเรือนจำ และในตอนที่เขาทำงานให้กับทีมตรวจตราสุนัขเพื่อจัดการกับสุนัขจรจรก่อนที่จะมีการแข่งขันกีฬาโอลิมปิก เขาก็เกิดความผูกพันธ์กับสุนัขสีดำตัวหนึ่งขึ้นมา ทำให้สองวิญญาณที่สุดแสนจะโดดเดี่ยวได้ออกเดินทางร่วมกัน
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.