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A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
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.
Three students from Jing Mu Girls’ Middle School go missing and turn up dead. Xiao Tong, a special education student with speech impairment, feels like someone is watching her. During the rehearsal for the school’s foundation day event, a corpse falls from the ceiling of the auditorium, and Xiao Tong disappears in the midst of confusion. Her mother, Li Han, who has been working at the school to be close to Xiao Tong, begins her pursuit.
Lin Yao has loved martial arts since he was a child and thinks he is very powerful, but step by step he falls into a scam set by Li Baimei and Qin Shuang.
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, the two teens are forced into hiding.
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A rebellious detective, distancing himself from his general father, teams up with a marginalized journalist to clear his father’s name after he’s framed for a brutal murder. As they investigate, they uncover a brutal truth hidden behind the era’s facade.
Lam, a Taiwan gangster who flees to Hong Kong after killing a rival gangster. Hiding at his uncle gang boss Lip's place, he gets embroiled in more gang conflicts and is forced to be an informant for the police. Lam runs away to Guangzhou and Macau with Lip's mistress, causing an enraged Lip to be hot on his trail.
Lin Rilang, a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart, gives all his efforts to collect money for his son's operation.
A young man and his friend move to Taiwan, believing it to be a land of possibilities, but it's not long before they're accused of being spies.
One day, Jiang Xiaobai and his mother—who had fled their home years ago to escape the debt collectors from loan sharks—received news that his father, Jiang Daming, had suddenly passed away from an acute illness, leaving behind a substantial insurance payout. Chen Hao, an old friend of the deceased who came to break the news, along with Wang Cici, a livestreamer who sells funeral products, then joined Xiaobai on a journey from Beijing to Changsha to claim the compensation.
Xia-dou and Ji-dan left their families and friends in Thief Village to sit in a dungeon as subsitute prisoners in exchange for favor from the local law enforcer. The warden, knowing they are good in physical skills, sent them on a side job. The kids broke in a heavily guarded examination ground, swapped two exam papers for the client and stole a pair of golden eyes from a big lion chop for themselves. The missing gold detoured the detective's trail to the master schemer. As the conspiracy unfolded, the governor decided to eradicate the whole village to cover up his involvement with the master schemer. Life in Thief Village has never been easy. But fate never mocked them so hard. It turned out that the gold they so cherished was fake. So were many other things they believed in. In despair, Xia-dou's Great grandfather, the 125-year old personage called upon the sky and recevied a most fantastic answer.
Xiao-Min, engaged before finishing high school, finds herself trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage, with her curiosity about the world unfulfilled. Her monotonous life as a housewife is disrupted by a young intruder, sparking change. Following her divorce, she faces loneliness and confusion about intimacy. What path will she choose now?
The young entrepreneur, Wong Shing-tak, has been married for ten year. He and his wife, Li Lin, lead a satisfying life together, until when some friends introduce Wong to a reporter called Yip Yuen. What starts out as purely a business relationship between the two turns into something much more than that. As Wong shows his trust towards Yip more and more, Li becomes increasingly. The marriage between Wong and Li begins to lose its grip...
This is not a story about a loving grandmother.
The film focuses on a bunch of criminals and murderers whose paths cross in a small suburban town.
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.
In 1949, the Communists take over mainland. The refugees and the military arrive in the Keelung Harbor in Taiwan. A father holds secret meetings with other generals in attempt to recover the lost land, his kids still play games with their grandma who enjoys the harmony in hardship.
This is a collection of three films by emerging Taiwanese directors all revolving around the theme of strong, young women involved in mayhem of some sort. In all of them the theme of alienation within the crowded streets of Taiwan runs strong.
Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival.
The startling contrast between old and new Taiwan is the subject of Wan Jen's epic of traditional identities coming into conflict with an urban life, emphasizing the situation of women.
Taiwanese film directed by Chin Ao-hsin.
The film explores the friendship between two school girls balanced on the cups between childhood and the adult world. The break between them comes when Leah, the headstrong and fearless of the two, severs the already fragile bonds of family and school life and rushes headlong into a darker world where, if pressures still exist, the players are at least less judgmental. Meanwhile, Sarah, timid and more plant by nature, nevertheless rebels against her friend's choice and is at first relegated to spectator while Leah is almost willingly made the pawn of the destructive man she loves. As Leah slides deeper into the surreal, we watch as Sarah makes her own extraordinarily dangerous choices to save her friend from certain destruction.
Taipei metropolis, there are three groups of men were faced with a different problem, a group originally unfamiliar, but because each spouse committed adultery with each other, and third-grab rape of men and women, and the other group is fine to borrow children's a lesbian couple, the third largest group of problems, a woman in front of her husband was not found, the bodies of the dead in his bed lover's disposed of. it happens, these three groups of people because of Taipei's traffic problems, rendezvous at a car accident, and thus triggered a suspected bandits are thinking of ending.
A coming of age story about a group of friends who grow up, depicting some tragic events in their adulthoods.
Four high school students, Yang Jialuo, You Fusheng, Gu Caizi, Guo Hao, and Liu Guobao narrate and reflect on growing up in 1950s Taiwan.
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.
Three Taiwanese friends go through political, romantic and cultural changes, from childhood to middle age.
A group of motorcyclists usually gather around the "Hero Slope" where they struggle to get hero stones. Hsiao Yao has been the "King of Hero Slope" for three terms and is strongly admired by a girl Hsiao-Mei. But by a chance, Hsiao-Yao strongly falls in love with another girl YY. In an attempt to meet Hsiao-Yao, YY tries to escape home to date Hsiao-Yao. This leads into a lot of trouble to Ah San, his friend. Under YY's encouragement, Hsiao-Yao tries to rid himself from the present way of life and to start from very beginning. He makes himself a gas carrier. BK has a very strong love to Hsiao-Mei but is always refused. Therefore, he hates Hsiao-Yao. They finally decide to compete in motorcycling race. YY refuses the idea but fails to dissuade them from the race. This turns out to be Hsiao-Yao's last racing...
