Hsiao Hou Tao

Dad's Suit (2019)

An elderly Taiwanese farmer faces new struggles when his children attempt to put him into aged care. ...

Found (2016)

A beautiful female doctor who is well cared for and a gay man raised by a single mother, at the golden age of her career, encounters the impact of her father's need for a liver transplant to renew his life at the same time. ...

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 ...

Happiness Tumbler (2011)

陳兩全，一個樂觀寡言的好好先生， 做了幾年有模有樣的家庭主夫，忽然決定出馬競選里長！ 原本只是一個失聯許久的朋友--小潘， 介紹他一門生意「幸福不倒翁」--雖是山寨卻比正版威而鋼還 ...

Bottom of the 6th (2011)

Su Zhengde, a middle-aged policeman who has no hope of promotion, eavesdropped on insider news of professional baseball signing and gambling in his duty. He wanted to raise money to send his daughter to study abroad, and he struggled between love and moral ...

How Young? (2003)

Taiwanese movie ...

18 (1993)

A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local ...

Requital (1992)

A young Taiwanese man after being released from prison starts his life as a gangster. He goes to Hong Kong to do some business with the Triads. ...

Winter Break (1989)

Gangland Odyssey (1988)

A Chinese drama ...

My Father Is Not a Thief (1987)

The family of a man falsely accused of car theft goes through tremendous abuse and turmoil in an attempt to free him from imprisonment. ...

The Scalper (1986)

The 'scalper' is a cinema ticket-tout skirting the law and police harassment to make a living for herself and her three children in downtown Taipei. ...

Myth of a City (1985)

It is a school bus driver's last day at work. On a whim, he drives off to the seashore with the school's cook, a young teacher, and a busload of children. Facing an unhappy retirement, he seeks one great moment of happiness, which he finds on the road with ...

The Spring Outside the Fence (1985)

The rebellious and free-spirited Li Lin and the introverted Wu Ai-hua are best friends who grow up together in the military dependents' village. However, they both fall in love with pilot He Kang, their mutual childhood friend. After He Kang is killed in a ...

The Vampire Dominator (1984)

Taiwanese horror film. ...

Taoism Drunkard (1984)

A Taoist priest is ordered to find a Cherry Boy to appease his temple's ancestors. The boy in question is a young man who lives with his grandmother, trying to protect a sacred writ from a bright red, snarling bad guy. And let's just say insanity follows! ...

The Time You Need a Friend (1984)

John Woo's melodramatic tragicomedy The Time You Need a Friend (1985) stands at the crucial crossroads in the director's career. Woo had been churning out innocuous comedies for more than a few years, and after establishing the "heroic bloodshed" genre, he ...

A Flower in the Rainy Night (1983)

A girl, who was sold by her stepfather at the age of 14, has had been a prostitute for 14 years. Her family, despite enjoying a comfortable life with her help, avoids her. She thus decides to have a son of her own and succeeds by sheer determination. She i ...

That Day, on the Beach (1983)

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business. ...

Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing? (1983)

A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends. ...

The Three Famous Constables (1983)

The plot it involves getting rid of the Devil Clan, a gang of very efficient robbers who have never been caught. The depredations must have gotten more blatant because two constables, played by Pearl Cheung Ling and Tin Hok are both tasked with eliminating ...

The Flute Player of Wrath (1982)

Taiwanese Kung Fu actor Yip Fei, (Snuff Bottle Connection) stars in this superb swordplay film from Taiwan. A swordsman known for his flute playing style: dispatches his foes in the bloodiest of ways. ...

Steamrolling (1982)

Queen Bee's Revenge (1981)

A woman seeks revenge against the people responsible for her sister's death. ...

The Child Delivery in the Coffin (1980)

Taiwan horror / ghost story. ...

18 Weapons of Kung Fu (1980)

Li Tai must endure terrible hardship under his sadistic Kung-fu master in order to perfect his fighting technique. The ambitious young man finally has a chance to prove himself when his old master meets his match and Li has to use the eighteen secrets of k ...

Sacrifice to Desolate Spirits (1980)

Upon their invasion of Taiwan in 1874, the Japanese team up with a sinister tong to hold a martial arts tournament in a plot to root out and assassinate the region's top resistance fighters, thereby breaking the spirit of Chinese patriotism. Two local kung ...

The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979)

Evil Chun Shan uses chess boxing and a five-element ninja style to terrorize the martial arts world until he is challenged in a series of battles, then destroyed. ...

Iron Neck Li (1978)

Iron Neck Li (Chi Kuan Chun) signs on as a personal bodyguard for a Chinese prince. The potentate plans to visit the lawless island of Formosa, where criminals lie in wait -- highwaymen who would love to take a crack at the rich prince. But garden-variety ...

A Pirate of Love (1977)

A Pirate of Love is a taiwanese Romance starring Charlie Chin and Sylvia Chang ...

Ah Cao Leaves Mountain (1969)

Coffin Ship (1965)

Taiwanese horror movie from 1965. ...