A sharp-edged binary opposition between urban cities and rural areas was usually on display in early Taiwanese films: while rural areas represent inno... (Read more)
Qi moves from Hong Kong to Taipei alone, with only her pet parrot for company. There, she continually receives phone calls asking for a mysterious man... (Read more)
Singing suffers the recurring dream of a man shouting at her, who she believes to be her father who had disappeared at sea. While working on a ferry, ... (Read more)
A mother moves to the city, taking her daughter, Mei, but leaving her son Nan with their father. Years later, Nan, now a tour guide, still struggles t... (Read more)
Khue-Guan, a deliveryman living in a cheap apartment, dreams of making it big one day. He happens upon a teenage runaway, Tsing-Bi, and entices her to... (Read more)
Dressed in traditional Amis clothing, a young girl, Nakaw, rides a scooter past a succession of tour buses into a beautiful, ethnic coastal village. B... (Read more)
HAN Shuen-Yun, a 60-year-old woman, retires from an administrative position at a university. Unmarried, she lives with her mother in an old hillside c... (Read more)
Taxi driver, A Cui, is a nice, old push-over who always ends up being exploited. His social status is lower than his beautiful but estranged wife, and... (Read more)
Newspaper reporter Chi discovers that his car is accident-damaged. As he begins to look into its history, he soon unearths a fatal car crash nine year... (Read more)
Summer Snow(1995), In the Mood for Love(2000), Millennium Mambo(2001): Just three of the classic Chinese-language films shot by prolific Taiwanese cin... (Read more)
Dawang’s home is about to be demolished. The pig he has painstakingly raised is about to become a religious offering at a Temple Fair. Meanwhile, it h... (Read more)
Unable to remember the combination to her apartment’s lock, dementia sufferer Hsia decides to go to her old neighbor, CHUANG, in the community she use... (Read more)
A car accident involving a stray dog connects unlikely characters with life-changing results. A hand model caught in an estranged middle-class marriag... (Read more)
A-Ming, a homeless old man, has forgotten where he came from. When he finds a camcorder at a recycling depot, he becomes captivated by its tape of a h... (Read more)
Tenn Kong-Hui is a private detective who uses people’s shady pasts to blackmail them. Tai-Giok is a secretary to a steel company’s chairman, and a dan... (Read more)
After the death of their mother, Siok-Hui sings in a nightclub to support her younger sister Siok-Tshing, but her immature sister looks down on her oc... (Read more)
Tshiu-Bi and her husband Siu-Gi have a seemingly perfect marriage but still have no children. When Tsiu-Bi’s friend, Le-Hun, a single mother, is force... (Read more)
A commercial actress is raped by a driver when she tries to hitchhike from a remote shooting location. As she insists on pressing charges, she is met ... (Read more)
Taiwanese noise performer, and music aficionado, HUANG Da-Wang is incompatible with society. HUANG suffers from Tourette syndrome, a disorder that cau... (Read more)
Born in Hebei but destined to pass away in Taipei, a city far from home, LI originally expected to take good care of his family and be loyal to his co... (Read more)
In Shanghai, Hai-Nan, son of a Chinese official, is found stabbed on the street. But when the culprit, Li-Fang, is apprehended, she refuses to reveal ... (Read more)
When a dying millionaire offers a large reward in order to find his missing granddaughter, it catches the attention of a wandering singer, Wen. He cha... (Read more)
Fat Wang and skinny Liu are best friends. One day, a fortune teller foresees that Wang will win a fortune in three days, but Liu will die in 44 days. ... (Read more)
A “blue moon” refers to something that happens once in a lifetime or a second full moon in the same calendar month. Cuen-Shu and A-Gua, classmates who... (Read more)
Hsing-Hui works as an assistant cameraperson for advertisement director Luo-Tzu, whom she has been keeping at arm’s length in the face of his romantic... (Read more)
TUAN Wan-Lu is a naïve and carefree young woman raised in the family of a professor and doted on by her protective older brother and childhood friend ... (Read more)
Misuo, an entomologist, is shown a reconstruction project of an old building by her architect boyfriend. Later, images that are not part of her own me... (Read more)
Hsiou-tsai is an amateur actor in Taipei, who chooses to go back to his hometown Meinong and work on the family farm due to his financial burdens. How... (Read more)
A Chinese food delivery boy from Taiwan searches for his mother in New York with a photo of Marlene DIETRIH. His neighbor Wayne makes a living by clea... (Read more)
Seventeen should be a carefree age, but Yang gets to see the complexities of love in the world. His best friend Ma is mad at his girlfriend. His fathe... (Read more)
A-Te used to be a social movement fanatic. But after suffering the pain of divorce and the death of his child, he changed his profession and became a ... (Read more)
A-Cheng falls in love with Hsiao-hui, a beautiful prostitute who sells herself to a brothel to pay off his debts. On the run from both criminals and t... (Read more)
Tung wakes one morning to find his girlfriend has abandoned him, leaving only a break-up note stuck to his forehead. While reeling from this turn of e... (Read more)
During a hot and humid summer night in Taipei, Jenny is given an expensive cell phone by her boyfriend, Luke. They stroll through the bustling, exotic... (Read more)
Taipei, 2009. Easygoing twenty-something HUANG Tian-Kuo delivers lunch boxes for his restaurateur parents. He gets to know LIN Yang-Yang, a street per... (Read more)
Chung is a tow truck driver in Taipei, earning a meager salary to support his family by towing away cars parked in prohibited areas. However, it makes... (Read more)
Accidental Trio is the story of three families in Taipei’s emerging middle class in the late 1960s. Every family has at least one member trying to esc... (Read more)
Watan, a member of the aboriginal Atayal tribe, left his village to find work in the city, and returned as a depressive alcoholic with a broken leg. A... (Read more)
Mei is a real estate agent. Hsiao-Kang sells spaces for funerary urns. A-Jung is a street vendor selling women’s clothes. The lives of these three str... (Read more)
Xiulan and Huotu grew up together in the same village in Changhua County, and they love and are committed to each other. To pay off her family’s debts... (Read more)
Monga is named for Mengjia, an old district of Taipei which has long been the domain of the local gangsters. Mosquito, the teenage son of a single mot... (Read more)
Midnight radio-show hostess Vicky searches for her lover, Dog, who disappeared without a trace. While investigating his whereabouts in Taipei City, Vi... (Read more)
Taipei teenager Chih-chiang does not do well in school, and is a day dreamer. He witnesses the kidnapping of a little boy by accident. After being dis... (Read more)
The film is set in an old-style house in Mengjia, an old district of Taipei. Rebellious teenage girl Laichun, now 16, lives with her extended family. ... (Read more)
Guo is a middle-aged police detective nearing retirement. He is stern, stubborn, and solitary, and lives alone in a boarding room after divorce. The b... (Read more)
On Mother’s Day, Chen Mo goes to a bakery to buy dessert for his wife, only to find his car blocked in by a double-parked car. As Chen Mo searches for... (Read more)
Set in 1980s Taipei, the film shows three groups of complete strangers whose lives intertwine in strange ways, making for an enigmatic thriller. An id... (Read more)
Refusing to take the College Entrance Exam, Xiao-Kang drops out of cram school and hangs around Ximending, spending all his time in a video arcade. On... (Read more)