Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, USA | Mandarin, French
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Ang Lee, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang
Cast
Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Wang Yu-wen
Plot
A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.
Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, USA | Mandarin, English
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Ang Lee, Neil Peng, James Schamus
Cast
Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua
Plot
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
Movie | Drama, History | Taiwan, USA | Mandarin, Japanese
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Eileen Chang, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen
Plot
During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan | Mandarin, Min Nan
Director
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer
T'ien-wen Chu, Nien-Jen Wu
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen
Plot
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
Sheng Wang, a high school transfer student, immediately clashes with classmate Jiang Tian. Their lives intertwine when their parents marry, forcing them to adapt as stepbrothers while dealing with family dynamics and a budding rom...
Lung is a former member of the national Little League team who lives with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a traditional family woman. Although they live together, Ah-chin is weary of Lung's past liaison with another girl.
Movie | Biography, Drama | Taiwan | Mandarin, Hakka
Director
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer
T'ien-wen Chu, Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Cast
Yu An-Shun, Chia-bao Chang, Neng Chang
Plot
The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.
A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Shen Jiayi. The only member of the group who claims not to is Ke Jingteng, but he ends up loving her as well.
Movie | Action, Drama | Taiwan | Aboriginal, Japanese
Director
Te-Sheng Wei
Writer
Te-Sheng Wei
Cast
Masanobu Anda, Jun'ichi Haruta, Sabu Kawahara
Plot
An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.
Movie | Drama, Fantasy | Taiwan, France | Mandarin
Director
Tsai Ming-liang
Writer
Tsai Ming-liang, Pi-ying Yang
Cast
Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Miao Tien
Plot
While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.
Movie | Comedy, Romance | Taiwan | Mandarin, Min Nan
Director
Yu Shan Chen
Writer
Yung-Ting Tseng
Cast
Vivian Sung, Talu Wang, Dino Lee
Plot
Truly Lin lives a lonely life as an employee in an office. She reminisces about her high school life when she and Tai Yu, the school's notorious student, fall in love with each other.
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 ap...
Movie | Action, Adventure | Taiwan, Hong Kong | Mandarin
Director
King Hu
Writer
King Hu
Cast
Feng Hsu, Yueh Sun, Lin Tung
Plot
In Ming Dynasty China, the abbot of the San Pao Buddhist monastery must choose a successor. Among the high dignitaries invited, there are some who are after the priceless parchment kept in the temple: the Mahayana Sutras.
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
A delivery boy falls for a young girl who is hearing impaired. Comparing themselves with "water birds" and trees, together they are going to break the barrier and pursue their dreams and take their relationship to the next level.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, USA | Mandarin, Min Nan
Director
Te-Sheng Wei
Writer
Te-Sheng Wei
Cast
Van Fan, Chie Tanaka, Min-Hsiung
Plot
A unusual group of people in a village on the coast of Taiwan form a band to perform at a beach concert, while the lead singer searches for the intended recipient of 7 lost love letters.
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river; his dysfunctional parents are unable to provide any relief for him or themselves.
After witnessing the murder of his father, Little Mute trains in Shaolin Temple for revenge and is taught by various teachers, one of which is clandestine.
Movie | Action, Comedy | Taiwan | Mandarin, Min Nan
Director
Wei-Hao Cheng
Writer
Wei-Hao Cheng, Lai Chih-liang, Sharon Wu
Cast
Greg Han Hsu, Po-Hung Lin, Gingle Wang
Plot
One day a police officer finds a red wedding envelope, only to find out that the owner is in fact a ghost asking for the officer's hand in marriage before reincarnation. What will happen when a human and a ghost form a special bond?
The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
