Cheng Yu-chieh

Before the Bright Day (2025)

Chou, a sensitive teen craving independence, struggles as the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis hits his family's finances and worsens tensions at home. He secretly works at a billiard hall, forming a bond with gang leader Button, but faces setbacks like Button's ...

Family Matters (2025)

Elder sister, Spring, seeks her origins before heading to university, Autumn, the mother, grapples with conceiving a child through artificial insemination, Summer, the younger brother, tries to engage with a paternal figure he barely knows just before his ...

Cupcakes, Lonely Cats (2025)

Liu Hui is a widower whose son lives in America. She insists on living alone in the house she shared with her late husband, a calligrapher, and is surrounded by fond memories. As she gradually joins community activities, she strikes up an acquaintance with ...

The Black Dog (2024)

The Black Dog is about Mo, a husband and father, who worries a lot about losing his wife to cancer and raising their 10-year-old daughter alone. His daughter finds him crying out in his sleep. ...

The Chronicles of Libidoists (2024)

The story unfolds with an allegorical inspiration from the well-known fairy tale, The Little Mermaid, in which the mermaid princess falls in love with the prince it saves from drowning, with a surprising twist of the mermaid being a young boy… ...

Trouble Girl (2023)

According to the biggest dating website's research, teacher is among the top five professions most likely to cheat, and their students' parents are among the people whom they cheat with. Xiao-xiao, who has mild ADHD, is the troublemaker in her class. But s ...

The Same (2023)

Don, in his adolescence, feels low-esteem due to his awkward walking posture. The problem now is his father, who is coming home after years of far-sea fishing. His father always makes him feel uncomfortable. However, he's not aware that his father is facin ...

The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon (2023)

The arrogant, third most-wanted criminal in Taiwan, decides to get rid of the top two competitors and crowns himself the most-wanted criminal before dying. ...

For My Country (2023)

Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears through his family, controversy arises over Aissa's funeral plans when the A ...

Daddy-To-Be (2022)

As Jun waits leisurely to enlist in the army, everything starts to go sloppy after two lines appear on his girlfriend's pregnancy test. Jun, who lost his father as a child, is at a loss because of his sudden "fatherhood". Meanwhile, his mother Jia-ling giv ...

Mama Boy (2022)

Xiao Hong is a shy 29-year-old man who works in an aquarium fish store and lets his overprotective mother boss him around in all aspects of his life. His cousin decides to take him to a seedy hotel where Sister Lele oversees the prostitution business. ...

Into the Unknown ​ (2022)

Gao was trying to seek a complete love in different people to fulfill her emptiness. ...

Left Behind (2021)

Grit (2021)

Ko Chen-tung (You Are the Apple of My Eye, Road to Mandalay) and Angelica Lee (The Eye, The Garden of Evening Mists) make an unusual romantic pairing in this offbeat romantic comedy from director-cinematographer Chen Ta-pu. Ko plays Croc, a young gangster ...

My Sister (2021)

It's the day before Hsiao-Chun's 18th birthday but she overhears a secret which will change the way she looks at her family. As the candlelight on the birthday cake glimmers before her gloomy heart, what wish will she make? ...

Falling Koi (2021)

A depressed young man, an enthusiastic local and a koi embark on a journey. ...

The Greater Good (2020)

Special Agent Lee is investigating a planned assault on a Congressmen who is tied to a series of GPS Spoofing cyber-attacks globally. The primary suspect is his junior agent Peng's ex, who was part of an underground hacker organization. ...

The Child of Nowhere (2019)

An orphanage of various sounds. An ocean without witness of the crowds. The child of nowhere, longing for returning home. ...

Rest in Mist (2019)

Ten Years Taiwan (2019)

What will our lives be like 10 years from now? Five up and coming Taiwanese directors each offer their own take in answering this question. In 2028, Taiwan is suffering from nuclear waste ("The Can of Anido"), migrant workers ("942"), industrial collapse ( ...

Farewell to the Ark (2018)

Jing-Zi is a social recluse. Because of an accident three years ago, she's been blaming herself deeply. Xian-Xian always hates it when people call her "cutie." She doesn't reveal her true emotions and seems to have no real "friend." A-Jie, a master in the ...

ADHD Is Necessary (2018)

When her daughter's slipping grades threaten their status in life, a mother resorts to extreme measures to avoid losing social standing. ...

Blossom (2017)

Cherry identified herself as a drag queen. She just had a fight right before the show, finding out her boyfriend had been cheating sleeping with another girl for a long time. Later, she pulled herself together and walked on her way to work, she met with an ...

The Village of No Return (2017)

In a remote village, a con man disguised as a Taoist priest introduces a memory-erasing device to residents — but a dangerous plot looms. ...

One Minute More (2014)

Wan Zhen (Janine Chang) is an editor of a fashion magazine where she is competent that she can do her job successfully but was very clueless in real life. Since her boyfriend Hao Jie (Peter Ho) works from home, he looks after her so well that they adopted ...

The Blackout Village (2011)

Monga (2010)

Set in the 1980s, "Monga" centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into conflict with other gangs jealous ...

Winds of September (2008)

Lin Shu-Yu's semi auto-biographical debut takes us back to 1996, during the time of the tragic Taiwan baseball scandal, an event that devastated many teenage boys. The story follows Yen and Tang and their gang through the last year of their high school lif ...

Spider Lilies (2007)

When Jade, a web-cam girl, visits Takeko's tattoo studio she becomes entranced with the image of the spider lily and with Takeko as well. In order to get closer to the object of her desire, Jade asks Takeko to give her the same lily tattoo, challenging Tak ...

The Pain of Others (2005)

On the night of March 18th, 2000, the presidential election, as usual, three coastguards are on patrol by the seaside of Yi-Lan. Private First Class, just out of lock-up, is equipped with a walkie-talkie. The Private (second in command) has a military 65-K ...

Family Matters (2025)

Elder sister, Spring, seeks her origins before heading to university, Autumn, the mother, grapples with conceiving a child through artificial insemination, Summer, the younger brother, tries to engage with a paternal figure he barely knows just before his ...

Dear Tenant (2020)

A boy lives with his Grandma and Mr. Lin, the tenant who looks after him and Grandma. But when Grandma passes away, the boy's uncle returns to Taiwan and discovers that ownership of the apartment was transferred to other people. ...

Panay (2015)

Panay worked in the city as a journalist. One day, she found her tribe had been overdeveloped and changed by tourism. They were losing their land and their culture, so she decided to return home to bring back the abandon terrace. In this process, she found ...

My Little Honey Moon (2012)

Life of a Vietnamese girl married to a farmer in the countryside of Taiwan. ...

10 Plus 10 (2011)

10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the "Uniqueness of Taiwan," but allowed total fre ...

Yang Yang (2009)

Yang Yang's mother marries her track coach, who then becomes Yang Yang's stepfather, with his daughter Xiao-Ru becoming Yang Yang's stepsister. The two girls seem close, but their relationship possesses a hidden and ultimately damaging jealousy. Xiao-Ru's ...

Do Over (2006)

Do Over follows five characters over twenty four hours on the last day of the year. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. By depicting five differ ...

Summer, Dream (2001)

College student Hsiao Chih has been dreaming of studying abroad and having foreign affairs. His plan to fulfill this dream in the summer is, however, discouraged by economic down turn in Taiwan. Just as he feels depressed about the need to spend a long sum ...