Akio Chen

Left-Handed Girl (2025)

A mother and her two daughters move to Taipei to open a noodle stand at a vibrant night market, but family secrets and tradition test their fresh start. ...

Old Fox (2023)

Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him. ...

My Uncle Picnic (2023)

Ciao, a fifth grader, has to create a vlog with his parents for a school assignment. Since he can't find time with them, he tries various ways to complete the task. One day, Ciao meets a homeless man who works as a street sign holder. In exchange for Ciao' ...

Paparazzo Du Bin (2022)

DU Bin was originally a newspaper photographer but was fired from the newspaper due to the mistaken use of photographs. In low spirits, he becomes a freelancer and takes marital affairs pictures for detective agencies. One day, DU Bin starts to follow the ...

Hello! Tapir (2022)

8-year-old Ah Keat sets off in search of the mythical nightmare-eating creature in the forest, hoping it will bring his father back to life. ...

Khioh-hah-a (2021)

Secrets of 1979 (2021)

In the summer of 1979, during Taiwan's martial law period, Bing-Kuan asks her college friend Shu-Lan to help out on her family's banana plantation. As time goes by, the two girls secretly develop a romantic relationship, and decide to volunteer at the Form ...

Life of Lai (2021)

Mr. Lai, an extra in a film, wakes up coughing on the set and gets notified he is going to play a dead body lying in a coffin. Teased by other background actors and mistreated by the film crew, he finds a perfect way to lie in the coffin. ...

Ahma & Alan (2020)

A Taiwanese grandma (Ahma) has to travel from a rural town in central Taiwan to the capital city of Taipei in the north to pull Alan, her American-born grandson, out of jail before he gets deported by a vindictive police officer. ...

Wonderful Space (2019)

The Silence Of Om (2018)

A Fish Out of Water (2018)

A young boy searches a small fishing village for his parents from a past life. ...

Mon Mon Mon Monsters (2017)

Shu-wei is an unpopular student who is a constant target for the school bullies, but he ends up joining forces with them when they encounter two demonic sisters who feast on human flesh in the middle of the night. The gang manage to capture one, but the ot ...

The Substitute (2017)

To compensate the loss of Lu's brother, Lu, the captain of judo team at school, has been brought up by her mother as a substitute of her brother in Beijing. In the seemingly masculine appearance, she secretly falls in love with Nicole, the internet celebri ...

The Tenants Downstairs (2016)

A loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a lusty gymnastics teacher, a geeky college student, a single father with his young daughter, a gay couple, a writer and a sexy female office worker. An incredible ...

David Loman 2 (2016)

Now retired from the criminal underworld, Loman runs a bed and breakfast with his loud, boisterous family. The plot is built around various domestic situations - a relationship crisis between Loman's daughter Jin and her partner Xiao Ho, as well as unresol ...

Gatao (2015)

Qing Feng is the top lieutenant under gang boss Yong. Three years ago, his good friend Xiong went to jail for him in the name of brotherhood. Upon his return, Xiong is immediately favored by Yong, which plants a growing rift in his friendship with Qing Fen ...

Ashes (2014)

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Step Back to Glory (2013)

A true story of the unrelenting endurance and perseverance of a group of passionate teenage girls, in a film that firmly grasps audiences and tugs at the heartstrings with an emotionally charged story of tug-of-war, "Step Back to Glory", stands out from al ...

David Loman (2013)

David Loman, a simple country bumpkin who accidentally becomes a big boss in the criminal underworld. A decade passes, and life seems to go on as usual - solving daily problems for locals and receiving "protection fees" - until one day a deity tells David ...

The Will to Power (2012)

The unexpected death of a blue-collar worker and former activist draws his daughter into a political intrigue. Meanwhile, Mayor Chou is clearing up obstacles in his race for the presidency, while Lee, the third squad leader of Criminal Investigation Divisi ...

Away from Growth (2012)

Love Is Sin (2012)

Set in the village of a mountain town, a grocery store owner surprises everyone when she decides to learn English from a young missionary who has just arrived. Through her studies, she slowly begins to reveal secrets that she has kept hidden for over 30 ye ...

Juliets (2010)

A triptych reinterpreting Shakespeare's classic character Juliet. The three stories are directed by 3 different directors; Juliet's Choice (By Hou Chi Jan), Two Juliets (By Shen Ko Shang), and Another Juliet (By Chen Yu Hsun) Juliet's Choice : In the 70' ...

Pinoy Sunday (2009)

The discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for Filipino guest workers Manuel and Dado. ...

Taipei 24H (2009)

Taipei 24H divides 24 hours in Taipei into 8 shorts. It opens with Cheng Fen-fen's upbeat and comedic "Share the Morning", and ends with Lee Kang-sheng running the final leg of this relay with "Remembrance" at 4am. Well-known director Tsai Ming-liang makes ...

Cape No. 7 (2008)

Aga, a band singer, returns to Hengchun with frustration. Tomoko is a Japanese model assigned to organize a local warm-up band for the Japanese super star beach concert. Together with other five ordinary Hengchun residents who were not expected to be great ...

Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate (2006)

Da Yu, a 15-year-old boy, wanders aimlessly in the lonely city. ...

Chocolate Rap: Rise of the B Boyz (2006)

Injured in a car crash, Chocolate, a b-boy -- someone who melds break dancing with martial arts -- is convinced to give up his dreams of dancing until he's forced to step up his game to save the day. When a crooked b-boy promoter threatens Chocolate's girl ...

Comes the Black Dog (2004)

Compulsive gambler Jih (Tai-bao) tries to bamboozle dim-bulb gang boss Black Dog (Chen-Nan Tsai) in this satirical action-comedy that pokes fun at Taiwanese culture. To fend off Black Dog's attempt to collect a gaming debt, Jih says he can't repay the mone ...

Double Vision (2002)

An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims. ...

A Borrowed Life (1995)

Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule before WWII. ...

Tropical Fish (1995)

Young boy, Ah-Jiang, a school failure and day dreamer witnesses the kidnapping of a child. After being taken hostage by a corrupt family, he begins an unusual adventure away from home. ...