Liao Ching-sung

Hunter Brothers (2025)

Seven years ago, Lin Cheng was jailed for his father's death. Finally released, he and older brother Hsiang, the real culprit, must face the consequences of the past together. ...

Mongrel (2025)

Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity. ...

Daughter's Daughter (2024)

Jin is in her 60s. Her husband gone, her concern is for daughter Zuer, in New York trying out IVF with her partner Michelle. When Jin receives news that Zuer and Michelle have died in an accident, she heads for NY. There, she has another shock: she has inh ...

Come Home, My Child (2024)

This documentary tracks three elderly women from Taiwan, China and the US who are drawn together by the bound they develop with inmates of a maximum-security prison in New York. ...

See You (2024)

After his suicide, a teen ghost contacts his classmate through sign language, revealing the queer love and pain they were never allowed to voice. ...

Soul of Soil (2024)

Something is wrong with the "soil", rendering farmers unable to make money. Enthusiastic middle-aged farmer A-Ren switches to the tech industry, aiming to revive the soil by turning garbage into compost, with his family reluctantly supporting his dream. Me ...

Shambhala (2024)

In a Himalayan polyandrous village in Nepal, newly married and pregnant Pema tries to make the best of her new life. But soon, her first husband Tashi vanishes on the trade route to Lhasa. Accompanied by her monk de facto husband, Karma, she embarks on a ...

Stonewalling (2024)

20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she's pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she's h ...

Be with Me (2023)

This is a story of reminiscence, remembering my long-deceased Grandpa. To remember is to transcend, therefore it's a story of time and space, overlapped and intertwined. It's also a quest of love and work, a spiritual and emotional journey; and through whi ...

A Boy and a Girl (2023)

In a declining small town, an idle boy encounters a heartbroken girl. Trying to escape, they devise a secret plan and set off for a one-way journey. ...

The Abandoned (2023)

When a mysterious corpse is found in a river, a distressed police officer delves into a string of grisly murders as danger quickly approaches. ...

Leap of Faith (2023)

Six teenage girls in China learn to ride horses, compete in matches, build friendships, and deal with loss, all seen from a mother's eye. ...

Welcome Home (2022)

This is a short film about women with a great influence in a Chinese family. In this mother-and-daughter relationship hides a cycle of love, life and hurting each other. ...

Salute (2022)

Dancer SHEU Fang-yi's career has been told through her modern dance dramas such as Sparrow, Stranger, Wall, and Martha GRAHAM's Heretic. Martha GRAHAM once said: "A dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painfu ...

Raydio (2022)

Ray and Dio, father and son, work the day and night shifts respectively. Both reticent and emotionless, they keep some distance between them due to family issues and generation gaps. On Tomb Sweeping Day, Ray gets lost in the columbarium since no one told ...

Untouchable (2022)

"Siaulian", who is released from prison and trying to turn his life back to track, runs into his childhood friend Tang, now a police officer, in a gang fight. Siaulian is wanted by the gangs since he has been made the one responsible for the fight. Siaulia ...

Another Brick On The Wall (2021)

With the following motivation: Every brick in the great wall of China was carried up by a man. More than 800,000 men, for more than 20 years. As we follow the reconstruction of a very small part of that old wall, we feel the dimension and Sisyphean effort ...

Who is Sleeping in Silver Grey (2021)

Cheng Die is a young music teacher living in a small town. Following an affair with a married man, she loses her job and has to leave town. She finds herself on an isolated island whose inhabitants cannot speak and where nothing is what it seems. She gets ...

Farewell, My Lad (2021)

In a small Chinese town some years ago, two childhood friends contend with the harsh realities of a nation drastically transitioning from Socialism to Market Economy. A young boy looking for guidance accidentally gets entangled with local hoodlums. His nei ...

The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams (2020)

Chu Tien-Wen, frequent screenwriter for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, makes her directorial debut with this entry in The Inspired Island documentary series. With Hou as producer, cinematographer Yao Hung-I and editor Liao ChingSung, Chu takes a deep dive into the story ...

Little Big Women (2020)

A story about a karaoke-addicted old woman struggling with her self-worth and a sense of betrayal at her long-lost husband's funeral where she encounters his younger and more sophisticated girlfriend while she finds out her kids might have been secretly in ...

Stars Await Us (2020)

A man is released from prison and saved by his roommates after a suicide attempt. When he visits a bar and sees a Russian woman performing the classic song "Blue Train," he is inspired to go off in search of his ex-girlfriend. ...

Tough Out (2020)

In the suburbs of Beijing, a group of troubled teenagers learn to play baseball with a famous baseball coach, while struggling through their internal conflicts and the inability to play baseball games like professionals. When an accident took place in the ...

Damp Season (2020)

A young couple grows apart, throwing themselves into the arms of others. ...

The Paradise (2019)

Hua Ge, who has been addicted to heroin for thirty years, successfully quits drugs and sets up a farm on a mountain, which takes in young drug addicts. ...

Grandmother’s Small Talk (2019)

Synopsis Le-Hun moved away to avoid her good friend Tshiu-Bi and her husband Siu-Gi, but by a twist of fate, she ended up rekindling her romance with Siu-Gi and accidentally fell pregnant with his child. Forty years later, Le-Hun's grandson uses his came ...

Like Father, Like Daughter (2019)

On the day Taiwan passes its same-sex marriage law, Wen-de's daughter is at home, celebrating her new engagement to her girlfriend. ...

See You, Sir! (2019)

Amid the hubbub of the New Year's Eve firework display, three youngsters of different backgrounds become roommates in the juvenile detention house. However, they soon come to realize that they could never leave the place for good. ...

Suburban Birds (2019)

Hao is part of a team of young engineers called in to investigate a series of craters that have opened up on the edge of the city. Meanwhile, a younger boy, also named Hao, spends long afternoons playing with friends and making mischief until one-by-one, h ...

Spring Tide (2019)

Journalist Guo lives together with her mother and daughter in the same residence. The relation of three generations looks placid but there is actually a fierce undercurrent of rebellion and resistance. ...

The Outsiders (2019)

A young male student develops a very close relationship with a teacher when both outsiders become ostracized from their town. ...

Baby (2018)

When a woman who was abandoned at birth because of a genetic disorder sees a child facing the same fate, she finds herself trying to persuade their parents to reconsider and goes to extreme lengths to save the child. ...

High Flash (2018)

Fisherman Ah-Hai is found dead from self-immolation during a large-scale protest against TL Petrochemical. The incident instantly makes media headlines; Ah-Hai is hailed as a martyr. Medical examiner Chou is assigned to the case with public prosecutor Kim, ...

Father to Son (2018)

On his 60th birthday, Van is told that he is seriously ill. But instead of going to Taipei for treatment, his illness leads him to Japan. Together with his son, he goes in search of the father who abandoned him 50 years ago. At the same time, a young man w ...

Mr. No Problem (2017)

Shot in stylish black-and-white, this three-act fable, set in wartime Chongqing, focuses on the indifferent rich, the head clerk on a farm, and some young intruders. Based on a 1943 short story, the film was directed by noted screenwriter Mei Feng. ...

End of Summer (2017)

A coming-of-age family drama with a timid fifth grader, an orthodox middle-aged teacher, and a grumpy old man awakening to their true selves during the 1998 World Cup. ...

A Dream of Spring (2017)

Zhao's veteran dorm roommate, Feng, passed away. The borough magistrate is taking the ashes back to Feng's hometown, but Zhao insists on keeping Feng's ashes for one more day. Zhao drinks on with Feng and reminisces of their past romance with Ah-Feng the p ...

Missing Johnny (2017)

Hsu Zi Qi is a young woman who lives alone in the city. Lee is the autistic son of Zi Qi's landlady, who tries to free himself from his protective mother. Feng is a shy young builder, who struggles with the constant breakdowns of his car. ...

Twenty Two (2017)

Follow the lives of the elderly survivors who were forced into sex slavery as "Comfort Women" by the Japanese during World War II. At the time of filming, only 22 of these women were still alive to tell their story. Through their own personal histories an ...

Condemned Practice Mode (2017)

HSU Tzu-chiang was pronounced guilty and sentenced to death in a 1995 kidnap and murder case despite the lack of forensic evidence. After a 16-year effort by NGOs, HSU was released with a life sentence in 2016. Now he continues to fight to prove his innoce ...

The Foolish Bird (2017)

Lynn lives with her grandparents in Meicheng, a small Hunanese city unsettled by an ongoing rape-murder investigation. With little structure to regulate her life outside of school, where she is bullied, Lynn begins smuggling and reselling confiscated mobil ...

Plastic China (2017)

This film tells a story about an unschooled 11-year-old girl Yi-Jie, she's a truly global child who learns the world through the United Nations of Wastes while working with her YI minority parents in this recycle workshop thousand miles away from their mou ...

Masters in the Forbidden City (2016)

This documentary shines a light on the unsung life stories of restorers of cultural relics working inside the Forbidden City, together with the history of the antiques and the palace, the procedures of restoration and the development of cultural protection ...

Songs of the Youth 1969 (2016)

It is the year of 2010, Xue Beijing, a 50-year-old director, is preparing to make a film about his youth and remarkable ages in late 60's. ...

Keep Going (2016)

Shan's crush is going to move away and they make a promise of exchanging their favorite signed baseballs. His signed ball, however, is lost because of his brother Jia, so the brothers start a journey to find the ball... ...

Absent without Leave (2016)

They sacrificed their lives fighting for the independence of their country, but their stories remain untold for 60 years. The story begins with a man's portrait, which has been hanging for more than 30 years in an old wooden house where I was born and grew ...

Fly, Kite Fly (2015)

The black kite, generally referred to as "the eagle" in Taiwan, used to be very widespread and so common that it is the main character in a well-known Taiwanese children's game. However, it has now become so rare that very few people ever get to see it. SH ...

Tharlo (2015)

Tharlo is an orphan. Now grown up, he makes a living as a sheep herder in the village. He has grown a ponytail, so people simply call him "Ponytail", since nobody remembers his real name anyway. Tharlo has a remarkable memory. He remembers so many things, ...

The Assassin (2015)

9th century China. Ten year old general's daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed i ...

It Takes Two to Tango (2014)

Sock'n Roll (2013)

With a large number of factories in the area, the hosiery industry forms the backbone and economic mainstay of a small rural town. One in two of the population makes their living from the production of socks. "Brother Black Dog" is of one of them and has b ...

Longing for the Rain (2013)

Linking several genres in a surprising and successful way, Yang Lin's fiction feature debut is an Asian ghost story in which documentary scenes show how incongruous today's reality can look in China. Protagonist Fang Lei lives in material wealth and only h ...

Together (2012)

Min Min runs a juice stall in Taipei's Yongle Market. Her husband Bin runs a small printing business in the neighborhood. Their daughter Hsiao Lan is dating a bad boy-type that keeps her out late at night, and their youngest son Hsiao Yang is helping his b ...

Return Ticket (2011)

All the way, Cao Li has come alone. From Fuyang to Shenzhen. From Shenzhen to Shanghai. From Shanghai to home? Leaving hometown is her choice, the choice out of no choice. Returning home is her dream, the dream getting blinded by the neon lights in the cit ...

A Beautiful Life (2011)

Fang Zhen Dong is a patrolling officer in Beijing who one night meets the drunk Li Pei Ru while singing karaoke at the KTV place. Li Pei Ru is a real estate agent from Hong Kong who has vowed to make her fortune in the cosmoplitan Beijing, but is caught up ...

One Step is Enough (2011)

Judge (2010)

In a small northern Chinese city in 1997, Judge Tian privately struggles with the loss of his daughter, killed by a stolen car in a hit-and-run accident. On the bench he encounters Qiuwu, a mechanic accused of stealing two cars. Perhaps influenced by his e ...

One Day (2010)

A woman is transported into a world as strange and beautiful as her dreams in this fantasy. Singing, who comes from a family of poor shopkeepers, earns her living as a cleaning woman on a ferry that services a military base. Singing has a recurring dream i ...

Hear Me (2009)

A delivery boy falls for a young girl who is hearing impaired. Comparing themselves with water birds and trees, together they are going to break the barrier and pursuit their dreams and take their relationship to the next level. ...

Orz Boyz (2008)

More than just naughty, they play tricks on classmates, tease girls at school, fight with other boys, and lie to everyone until their teacher breaks down. They are named Liar No. 1 and Liar No. 2. The most important act planned in their life is to go to th ...

The Most Distant Course (2007)

Three young souls, with different purposes, comes to the coast and search for the meaning of their life, a journey considerably longer than any of them has taken before. ...

God Man Dog (2007)

A professional hand model Ching suffers from post-natal depression and her architect husband Hsuing is unable to deal with it, driving their marriage to the brink of collapse. ...

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2007)

Ye Rutang, a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai. ...

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on location in Paris. This is H ...

Reflections (2007)

A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jing is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mothe ...

The Wall (2007)

In the early 1950s, even the small villages in Taiwan were bathed in the atmosphere of White Terror. It was a difficult time for all. There was a beautiful young woman called A-zhen. She always felt that there was something weird in her house since she got ...

Karmic Mahjong (2006)

Chen Chuan (Francis Ng) is a simple man who seems to be cursed with bad luck all the time. Convinced by a blind fortune teller that he must eliminate the "villain" that is bringing him the ills, Chen vows to kill the person responsible for his misfortunes. ...

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 ...

Three Times (2005)

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance. ...

Café Lumière (2004)

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city's disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a u ...

Love of May (2004)

Ah Lei is the younger brother of Stone, a guitarist of Mayday. He is also the administrator of Mayday's fansite, in charge of replying to fan letters and emails. One day, he befriended a girl named Zhao Xuan through a chatroom. He told her that he's actual ...

20 30 40 (2004)

A woman in her 20s, another in her 30s and a third in her 40s must each find a way to navigate the challenges they face in life and love. ...

Sacrificial Victims (2004)

Blue Gate Crossing (2002)

Yueh-chen has an obsession with her classmate Shihao, but is too shy to confess to him directly. She sends in her best friend, Kerou, to act as a go-between, and Shihao ends up falling for Kerou, who is not sure what to think of him. ...

Millennium Mambo (2001)

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei. ...

Betelnut Beauty (2001)

A cute coed leaves her mother's home and gets involved with a pastry chef who has links to the local criminal element. ...

Flowers of Shanghai (1998)

At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In the British concession, a number of luxurious "flower houses" are reserved for the male elite of the city. Since Chinese dignitaries are not allowed to frequent brothe ...

Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)

In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which ...

Super Citizen Ko (1995)

At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization. ...

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. ...

Good Men, Good Women (1995)

An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is abo ...

The Puppetmaster (1993)

Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century. ...

Dust of Angels (1992)

A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, t ...

The Story of Taipei Women (1992)

Fatal Recall (1991)

Fatal Recall is a Taiwanese Thriller starring Alex Man ...

Ming Ghost (1990)

A story of a girl haunted by the ghost of her mother, after witnessing her murder. ...

Boss No Balls (1989)

In a tiny fishing hamlet on an island off the coast of Taiwan, men find their balls are swelling. The entire village gets involved in diagnosis and treatment. ...

When The Ocean Is Blue (1988)

A couple and their son and daughter struggle through their divorce. The children try to cope after moving away to their grandparents', who live by the ocean, with the help of fairy tales that are told to them. ...

My Mother's Teahouse (1988)

A brothel disguised as a teahouse is staffed with old ladies long past their prime. However, things begin to change and become chaotic when the owner takes in a young girl. ...

Daughter of the Nile (1987)

Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, ...

Be My Lovely Child Again (1987)

The story of a little girl who has leukemia but wants to live a normal life just like any other child. ...

Farewell to the Channel (1987)

A young man is pulled into crime and then murder. He falls in love with a beautiful young prostitute who sells herself to a brothel to pay off his debts. When the young man tries to buy her contract from the brothel owner, he kills one of the bosses' thugs ...

Osmanthus Alley (1987)

Ti Hung's parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to rise from her poverty. She becomes famous for her embroidery and eventually marries into a rich family, but tragedy ensues. ...

Terrorizers (1986)

An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery. ...

The Outsiders (1986)

In 1985, senior high school student A-Qing was found fornicating with a staff member at school and got expelled. His deeply humiliated veteran father has since cast him out of the family, leaving him with nowhere to go but the refuge of his "own kind" at T ...

Drifters (1986)

Drifters directed by Kun-Hou Chen. ...

Dust in the Wind (1986)

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. Th ...

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. ...

His Matrimony (1985)

This is a story located in a small town in Taiwan during the 50's and 60's. Mei-Hsia is from the most prominent family in town. Yun-Lang works in the local peasant assocation. They like each other, but Mei-Hsia is afraid to tell her mother about their seei ...

The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985)

An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China. ...

Super Citizen (1985)

A young man from the country comes to Taipei to search for his sister from whom he has heard nothing during the past year. Beginning in a tenement slum, the young man travels through the city's lowlife, where street hustlers sell fake Rolex watches and oth ...

A Summer at Grandpa's (1984)

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents. ...

Out of the Blue (1984)

Teenagers Jielong and Tangmi secretly love each other, but Tangmi vanishes after they spend a night out together. Jielong has to turn back to focus on his studies and enter university. Unexpectedly, Tangmi resurfaces with a newborn baby. ...

Nature Is Quietly Beautiful (1984)

Ah Fu (1984)

There are several anthology films at the beginning stage of Taiwan New Cinema. Ah Fu consists of three shorts, having directors from various backgrounds. The leading roles in the three films are all named Ah Fu. The stories are played by different actors a ...

The Sandwich Man (1983)

Composed of three separate stories, the film vividly portrays Taiwan during the cold war period when the country developed its economy with help from the United States. ...

The Boys from Fengkuei (1983)

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, ...

Ah Fei (1983)

The startling contrast between old and new Taiwan is the subject of Wan Jen's epic of traditional identities coming into conflict with an urban life, emphasizing the situation of women. ...

Growing Up (1983)

The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, to a stable adult. ...

The Longest Night (1983)

Taiwanese war film based on a small-scale battle between the invading People's Liberation Army and the resisting Republic of China Armed Forces on a few small islands (including Dadan Island) in the Taiwan Strait in late July 1950. ...

The Green, Green Grass of Home (1982)

A substitute teacher from Taipei arrives in a country village to teach a class of mischievous students. He soon falls in love with nature, country life and a fellow teacher at the school. ...

In Our Time (1982)

Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood. ...

Six Is Company (1982)

Kenny Bee plays a saxophonist who works in a night club. Fang Hui-jang is the oldest sister in a four-child family whose father is working abroad. They are forced to live together in a house because they are fooled by a cheater who pretends to be the owner ...

Play While You Play (1981)

A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei, where he is preparing to undergo an operation to restore his sight, their conn ...

Longing (1981)

Longing. A taiwanese film directed by Kun-Hou Chen and written by Hsiao-Hsien Hou. ...

Spring in Autumn (1980)

Spring in Autumn tells the story of university student Cheng Wei who rescues He Liwen, a woman facing a family crisis, abandonment by her boyfriend, and the predicament of pregnancy. He takes her in and accompanies her through an abortion procedure. After ...

Mo li hua (1980)

Also known as White Jasmine. ...

China, My Native Land (1980)

Cute Girl (1980)

The daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies civil engineering. ...

He Never Gives Up (1979)

The film is based on the real story of Zheng Fengxi. The disabled author studied hard since childhood and finally he graduated from the college. ...

Lover on the Wave (1978)

Chao Ta-jung and Yuan-yuan met at the seashore by chance. Ta-jung was impressed with Yuan-yuan's compassion towards those who were less unfortunate even though she had given him a hard time. They soon fell in love and decided to get married but due to Yuan ...

Sunset in the Forbidden City (1975)

Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai' (2021)

A new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of "Flowers of Shanghai," featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Mark Lee Ping-bing, producer and editor Liao Ching-sung, production designer Hwarng Wern-ying, and sound record ...

Métro Lumière (2004)

French-made documentary, "Métro Lumière", which actually does help provide some of the context for Hsiao-hsien's approach to the film. It includes excerpts from Ozu's films, in particular, "Equinox Flower", to show the parallels with this film, the obvio ...