Taiwan

A small village, Xiongtuo, situated in the Tibetan remote region in Sichuan, China.Read More »

Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan’s Cold War period.Read More »

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A widely-revered elder of an indigenous community in northeastern Taiwan, Hayung passes away in his sleep, leaving behind a family troubled with a land dispute and financial problems. His widow, two sons, and their loved ones must stick together to overcome whatever challenges lying ahead. Unplanned, one of Hayung’s granddaughters gets pregnant with a baby boy, whom Hayung’s widow decides to name after her late husband. What will become of Hayung’s family through their struggles to finance a risky mayoral campaign, the stake of which is so high that Hayung’s sons would resort to anything to win? What are the consequences of violating Ga Ga, the forgotten traditional tribal norms?Read More »

Explores the background behind an adolescent (Lee Kang-sheng) extorting money from other adolescents.Read More »

When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time; as he watches François Truffaut’s “Les 400 Coups,” she has a strange encounter with its now-aging star, Jean-Pierre Leaud.Read More »

Five good fighters (Polly, Tien Peng, Man Chung San, Sit Hon, and another guy) fight countless sword battles against evil Yee Yuen and his minions.Read More »

It’s a two-episode run of the Taiwanese TV anthology series Eleven Women, produced by actress Sylvia Chang. The idea—to have several younger directors make episodes about contemporary Taiwanese life, centering on female protagonists—was modeled after the Hong Kong TV productions (such as Below the Lion Rock) that kickstarted the HK new wave. And indeed, it started the careers of not only Yang but several other important figures who would go on to pioneer the Taiwanese New Wave.

Yang’s episodes were adapted from a short story by Di Yi. The title is “Floating Weeds” (literally, “Duckweed”).Read More »

Synopsis:
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.Read More »

Peigang, his family’s only son for three generations running, is to be executed on account of larceny, but not without the intervention of his grandmother.Read More »