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Day Off (2023)

A woman who has owned a barbershop for over 40 years determines to embark on a long journey to cut the hair of an old customer who has moved away and is too sick to travel. ...

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 ...

Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (2009)

Color blind girl A-Kuei feels alienated and misunderstood. She is raised by her grandmother who would rather believe she is possessed than hear her feelings. The only person in the village who understands her is her bookworm cousin A-Hsien. He tells her th ...

Chivalrous Legend (1998)

After Japanese soldiers kill 12-year-old Ten-din's (Shiao Sheih Long) mother during an invasion, Ten-din must hide in order to save his own life. He takes refuge with a Peking opera company, where he perfects his fighting skills and turns into a kung fu ex ...

Buddha Bless America (1996)

When a military contingent of "mythic" Americans arrive for war games in a little farming village in South Taiwan in the late 1960s, a veritable flood of hilarious cultural and linguistic misunderstandings is loosed on both sides. ...

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. ...

Forever Friends (1995)

A couple of friends join the Taiwanese army to fight the Mainland Chinese. But life in the army isn't all that they dreamed off.... ...

The Puppetmaster (1993)

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

End of the Road (1993)

Fan Long (played by Liang Chaowei), the staff officer of the National Army, escaped from the captive camp and returned to the National Army camp through all the difficulties. The soldier Ading (played by Lin Zhiying) also returned to the army, and the vete ...

Hill of No Return (1992)

In 1920s Taiwan, Jou, a controversial woman with a tragic past, seeks to change her life after falling for a man named Che. Meanwhile, a man named Wei seeks to buy the freedom of Fumiko, a dying young woman. ...

Joe-Goody (1992)

Jen, nicknamed Ah Dai, had been a rebellious child. He fled home the age of 16. A few years later, he became the driver of the leader of the Underworld, Mr. Lin. He was deeply moved by the kindness and care Mr. & Mrs. Lin showed him, grateful enough to do ...

My American Grandson (1991)

A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai. ...

Zodiac Killers (1991)

Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask w ...

Fatal Recall (1991)

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

Song of the Exile (1990)

Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begin to fight, largely due to cultural and societal c ...

Sunless Days (1990)

Director Shu Kei travelled to Venice, Canada, London and Hong Kong, collecting accounts of the Tiananmen impact. Among his interviewees are: award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien; Hong Kong director Alfred Cheung, a witness to the massacre; act ...

A City of Sadness (1989)

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987. ...

The Dull-Ice Flower (1989)

Ku Ah-ming is a 4th grader at Chungshan Elementary School in Shuiyu Township, Taiwan. Despite being not very good in most subjects at school, he is very talented in art and has a great imagination, though most teachers don't know what he's expressing in hi ...

Honor Thy Father (1989)

After his twin dies as a baby, the protagonist's family has little hope for his survival. But as he grows older, he discovers baseball, and much to his father's chagrin, he begins playing. He will go on to be a star baseball player. ...

Lessons of the Playground (1989)

Taiwanese film directed by Chin Ao-hsin. ...

Two Painters (1989)

Adaptation of Huang Chunming's short story "The Two Signpainters". ...

Winter Break (1989)

Lao ke de zui hou yi ge chun tian (1988)

Gangland Odyssey (1988)

A Chinese drama ...

The Third Bridge (1988)

Sir, Tell Me Why? (1988)

The story of how a high school teacher overcomes all the problems and difficulties with problem students as well as other unfavorable circumstances in his teaching. ...

Autumn Tempest (1988)

Accustomed to the life of a young master, Wen Hsieng is forced to compromise under the pressure of family members, and arranges to go to the mountain temple to study. The environment in the temple makes it difficult for him to adapt to. ...

Young and Happy School Music (1988)

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. ...

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. ...

Love Is Grown with Flower (1987)

A farming village is undergoing change. Some of the young people want to live in the city, while others stay behind and try to help the older residents adjust to a new scheme of growing flowers to sell at market instead of rice. ...

The Two of Us (1987)

After having their son, a young couple divorces, with the child remaining with the father. The two endure poverty because the father has trouble finding and keeping jobs. Story mainly focuses on the father-son relationship and difficulties of being a singl ...

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 Campus Incidents (1986)

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 ...

Ghost Chasers (1985)

Taiwanese ghost comedy film. ...

The Loser, the Hero (1985)

A boy's disappointing scores on the college entrance exam bring shame down on his family. ...

Taste of Mercy (1985)

Wu Nu (1985)

Story of a Bride (1985)

One Bright Day (1985)

The First Stitch (1984)

Set in the southern port of Kaohsiung, a comedy-romance between a shy young tailor and a 'tart with a heart', both of whom have their different dreams. Based on the short story by Yang Ching-chu. ...

The Woman of Wrath (1984)

A woman resorts to prostitution out of hunger and commits suicide shortly after, leaving her daughter to embark on an equally cruel path. ...

Old Mao's Second Spring (1984)

The story of Lao Mo, a Taiwanese veteran who does not want to live a lonely life as an old man. ...

Nature Is Quietly Beautiful (1984)

Wanpi Nansheng Qiao Nusheng (1984)

North South West East (1984)

Impending War (1984)

All the King's Men (1983)

It's the 10th century BC, the emperor is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist "Immortal Li" are in reality only making him worse. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Send in the Clowns (1983)

Two sisters are part of a cabaret act that is rapidly declining in attendance, and although the older sisteris constantly trying to push her younger sister to the forefront in a solo act, the younger sibling is less than enthusiastic. She sees little futur ...

Traveller (1983)

Is Q Still Alive? (1983)

Portrait of a Fanatic (1982)

In 1949 when the Communist regime was established in China, the world-famed painter Ling Chen-kuang, believing his conviction for a new-born society had come true on his motherland, returned anxiously from the U.S., whither he had fled apprehension by lawm ...

I Shall Return (1982)

The Switch (1982)

Taiwanese crime drama. ...

The Graduation Trip (1982)

Taiwanese youth film. ...

Dangerous Seventeen (1982)

The City (1982)

Taipei Sweet Heart (1982)

Return of the Electric Love (1982)

Super Warrior (1982)

A Lily in the Valley (1982)

a final film of director Sung Tsun Shou. ...

Spring Fever (1981)

Sun Ya-fang, a freshman from college, is wooed by her schoolmates Chen, a boastful and frivolous playboy, and Yang, an introvert, who is simple and honest. Yang's sister teaches him to adopt a more aggressive approach towards Sun. Perturbed by his advances ...

The Merry Couple (1981)

Taiwanese romance film. ...

Classmate (1981)

Kuo-Hao Crams for College (1981)

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Once We Were Together (1981)

Young People's Desire (1980)

Sailing for Tomorrow (1980)

Gone with Honor (1979)

Lin Zemin and his wife Xiugu move to Taiwan from Fujian. At the same time, the Japanese invade Taiwan, leading Zemin to die during the war of resistance. His son Yongyuan grows up and goes to Japan to study medicine were he makes three friends, one of whom ...

The Blind Love (1979)

The Fellow Who Rejected College (1979)

The college entrance examinations are viewed as the be all and end all for Taiwanese high school students. A top student sends shock waves through his family and friends when he decides not to take them. ...

Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang (2023)

CHEN Ming-chang, exposed to Western music, from The Beatles to Bob Dylan, often taught himself to play and sing with a guitar when he was young. In the closed social milieu of martial law in Taiwan, he became immersed in music and yearned for freedom, arou ...

Caring for Black-Faced Spoonbill (2023)

A documentary took more than 30 years to pursue a migrating bird, black-faced spoonbill. ...

Twelve Nights 2: Back to Day Zero (2020)

My Egg Boy (2016)

Even in modern-day Taipei, women feel the societal pressure to get married and have children before the clock runs out. Thankfully, there is a solution: freeze your eggs and prolong your fertility until the right one comes along! Starring Ariel Lin, the fi ...

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 ...

The Boar King (2014)

When Cho loses her husband Ying and her family business in a massive typhoon, she is devastated.Then the villagers begin receiving mail from Ying. Is he really dead? ...

Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above (2013)

Documenting Taiwan from an aerial perspective offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and urbanization on our environment. ...

Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast (2013)

Wan returns home with an enormous debt after her modelling career fails, only to find that her family's restaurant has dwindled down to a single noodle stand. The situation is hopeless until a master chef decides to help her family return to glory. ...

Island Etude (2006)

Ming-Hsang, a deaf college student, meets interesting people as he cycles around Taiwan before he graduates from college. ...

Yi Yi (2000)

A Taipei family faces personal and moral uncertainty as everyday events test their relationships and sense of purpose. ...

Mahjong (1996)

Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle. ...

Kangaroo Man (1995)

"Kangaroo Man" is produced by China Film Co., Ltd., directed by Liu Yiming drama, Qiu Xinzhi, Chen Wenmin to participate in the show. The film tells the story of Li Maitian's wife Jane Li because of accidental pregnancy can not, surrogate also failed, Li M ...

A City of Sadness (1989)

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987. ...

I Love Mary (1988)

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, ...

Taipei Story (1985)

A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander hi ...

My Favorite Season (1985)

Bi Bao-Liang is a 29 year-old man who believes that he will have bad luck if he touches a woman before he turns thirty. Liu Xiang-mei is a beautiful woman who had a love affair with her married boss, and now she is pregnant. In order to give her child a fa ...

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. ...