Tsai Ming-shiou

A Journey in Spring (2024)

An old man with a limp, Khim-Hok, has depended on his wife over the years. They live in an old house on the urban fringe of Taipei. After his wife suddenly passes away, Khim-Hok puts her into an old freezer and goes on living a seemingly peaceful life. But ...

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. ...

Sprout to Death (2024)

A zombie fearing his gradual decay immerses himself daily in formaldehyde. He relies on reading and painting to maintain a sense of freshness in body, mind, and spirit. Initially hoping to survive in society through his artistic talents, he never encounter ...

Shell of Men (2024)

The Absence (2024)

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. ...

Antikalpa (2023)

Ah Dai comes from a family that runs a prestigious orthodox temple. His childhood sweetheart, Yufan, is desperate to locate her missing aunt. In his attempt to help, Ah Dai agrees to participate in a special ritual that his schoolmates believe could help t ...

How are you feeling (2023)

A Boxing Coach (2022)

Kai, whose father used to be a national boxer and uncle teaches boxing at school, is fond of boxing. Kai and his uncle have, nevertheless, secretly participated in competitions though he is strictly forbidden to do so, and eventually lead to a cruel and co ...

Fantasy · World (2022)

A cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet another case of sexual assault. Thirteen years ago, Zhang was a rookie and mentored by a senior lawyer, Tu. Young and ambitious as Zhang was, his outstanding perform ...

Days Before the Millennium (2022)

In the 1990s, many young women from Southeast Asia, carrying their hopes and dreams, were married off to this faraway island of riches... Through a two-part narrative, the film contrasts the past and the present of Taiwanese society. Can these immigrant w ...

Little Yellow Flower (2022)

When A-nan looks at his paralyzed father in bed with ants crawling all over his body, it brings back painful childhood memories. Can he restore the long-frozen father-son relationship? ...

Night Shift (2022)

As a nurse working on graveyard shift, her life is boring and lonely. She often feels tired turning night into day, and the man she met on the dating application, Eric, gradually melts the heart of Xing Ru. ...

Life For Sale (2022)

A 27-year-old pessimistic man is obsessed with how to die, sees himself in a bad situation when a lot of dangerous people want his life. But with his life at stake, how will he get away with it? ...

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. ...

Dead & Beautiful (2021)

A group of young and spoiled rich kids turn into vampires after a night out, changing the course of their lives and driving a wedge between them all. ...

American Girl (2021)

When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic. ...

Moneyboys (2021)

Fei works illegally to support family, but they reject his lifestyle. Through Long, Fei finds hope, until encountering Xiaolai, his past love, who makes him confront his guilt. ...

Mickey on the Road (2020)

Mickey is a twenty-something Taiwanese woman: sporting short hair, a baseball cap, and impressive tattoos, she's both tough and depressed. Her best friend, Gin Gin, is an ultra-femme bleached blonde go-go dancer. Gin discovers she's pregnant while her boyf ...

Taipei Suicide Story (2020)

A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can't decide if she wants to live or die. ...

Little Hilly (2020)

Hilly is a 10-year-old silent Taiwanese girl. Nobody cares about her depression and the pressure she suffers. Hilly hates that she always oppresses herself, and also hates the world controlled by adults. What does Hilly really want to speak to the adults? ...

There (2020)

The old grandpa has passed away. The Indonesia caregiver, Shally, helps to hold the funeral with grandma and uncle. However, none of the children come home. Under such circumstances, Shally is forced to be one of the family members. ...

Night Bus (2019)

Late night, a commuter bus was speeding along the coastal highway when, suddenly, a loud and panicky scream pierced the night's silence. This wealthy and elderly lady had just woken to find her precious necklace stolen. What follows was a series of intrigu ...

Mom and Me (2019)

The Roar (2018)

The film peers through the conditions of different social groups and their accusation, compromization, and pondering over their lives from the perspective of a taxi driver Huang and presents different issues in his daily family life; describing the disturb ...

Is LIFE a Movie (2018)

As the actress arrived, everything about the movie, about the life of director and actress, and about the affection between professor and his student, were revealed and punctured one after another. In the hazy fuzzy afternoon, there is nothing left on the ...

The Thorn (2018)

During an illegal logging process, A Yuan fainted outside the forest, and then the wounds on his body gradually changed. The mutation of his body affects A Yuan's physical and mental perception. As the mutation goes out of control, in this unknown and myst ...

The Great Buddha+ (2017)

Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies' will, something horrifying rath ...

The Seaman (2015)

Ang the seaman was informed of his father's death while staying in Jakarta. Seven days later, he arrives at Kaohsiung with the cargo ship he works in. Inexplicably, Ang receives a phone call from a police telling him that his father was found drunk on the ...

The Laundryman (2015)

A-Gu enlists a group of contract killers in the disguise of laundry service. One of them, code-named "No.1 Qingtian Street", is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. He seeks help from Lin Hsiang, a psychic. ...

Welcome to the Happy Days (2015)

The Free Man (2014)

He is an ex-con who tries to turn the page by working at a laundry store. She is a young woman with a physical disability and is taken on to help out at the store. Is the world willing to give them more? ...

The City of Motels (2014)

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Exit (2014)

After losing her job as a garment worker, Ling sees her prospects dim dramatically: in her mid forties, she lives in a small, dilapidated apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung and spends much of her time locked in arguments with her testy daughter. ...

100 Days (2013)

When a cold hearted telecommunications executive returns to his small island town for his estranged mother's burial, he learns about the true Taiwanese tradition that mandates him to marry within 100 days so that the parent's spirit can transition peaceful ...

The Present (2013)

A married man on a business trip checks into a hotel. The hotel manager's daughter falls for him at first sight. Rejected by the man, she embarks on a journey of revenge... ...

A Breath from the Bottom (2012)

The President is on his way to an important conference. ...

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 ...

The Blackout Village (2011)

City Of Sleepwalkers (2010)

Dan tries to find his lost girlfriend, and he's deeply obsessed with his memory. ...

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 ...

With or Without You (2008)

After her mother died, the youngest daughter has been dreaming about her dead mother for nights. In the dreams, her mother expresses her will not to be buried next to her dead husband. On the seventh night after the mother's death, the hidden past of the f ...

Soul of a Demon (2008)

Che (Tseng Yi-che) returns to Nanfang'ao fishing port after taking the rap for younger bro Ren's (Cheng Yu-jen) stabbing of the son of local mobster Shun (Hsu Ling-tsang). Ren is also back from hiding in Japan with their father, Chang (Michio Hayashida), w ...

The Best of Times (2002)

Although their characters and temperaments couldn't be less alike, 19-year olds Wei and Jie are best friends. They're also neighbours, living with widower fathers and problem siblings in the suburbs of Taipei. When Wei is promoted from the rank of nightclu ...

Darkness and Light (1999)

A 17-year-old university student returns home during her summer holidays to the port city of Keelung of on the outskirts of Taipei. She falls in love with a young man, but his association with a local gang sees him caught up in a turf war. A wistful portra ...

Ah-Chung (1996)

The story concerns a male youth named Ah Chung (or Diong-ah in the Taiwanese dialect) who graduates from high school and descends into a maelstrom of personal, familial, and communal conflicts. Ah Chung is going through the liminal stage of finding his pla ...