Ti Hung’s parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to forget about the poverty. Read More »
Tag Archives: Taiwan
Super Citizen Ko (1995) Jen Wan, I-Chen Ko, Yang Lin, Ming-Ming Su
At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution Read More »
Kuei-Mei, A Woman (1985) Yi Chang, Hui-Shan Yang, Hsiang-Ping Hu, Li-Chun Lee
Arriving in Taiwan in the 1950s, Kuei-mei makes a disadvantageous marriage to a widower with three unruly kids and a bad gambling habit. Read More »
Legend of the Mountain (1979) King Hu, Chun Shih, Feng Hsu, Sylvia Chang
A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains. Read More »
Growing Up (1983) Kun-Hou Chen, Chun-Fang Chang, Cheng-Kuo Yen, Doze Niu
Growing Up was the film that “first attracted broad critical and popular attention to the movement” known as New Taiwan Cinema. Read More »
Hill of No Return (1992) Tung Wang, Xianmei Chen, Pin-Yuan Huang, Chang-Bin Jen
In the 1920’s, when Taiwan is Japan’s colony, the small town Chiu-Fen was famous of its gold mines. Read More »
A Young Woman Named Xiao Yu (1995) Sylvia Chang, Rene Liu, Marj Dusay, Tsung-Hua To
A Taiwanese comedy set in Lower Manhattan which chronicles the travails of two Taiwanese illegal aliens as they try to get a green card. Read More »
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chia-bao Chang, Neng Chang, Chih-Chen Chen, Biography, Drama
This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker’s own boyhood. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
The Sandwich Man (1983) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Jen Wan, Bor Jeng Chen, Li-Yin Yang, Kuo-Feng Tseng, Drama
Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan’s Cold War period. Read More »
That Day on the Beach (1983) Edward Yang, Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Terry Hu, Drama
Two friends who have not seen each other for two years return. One is a powerful concert pianist back from a European tour and another has only started a brand new small business. Read More »
A Borrowed Life (1994) Nien-Jen Wu, Akio Chen, Jun Fu, Yung-Feng Lee, Drama
Sega, a Taiwanese born in the years of Japanese rule, felt nearer to Western nationality and culture compared to Mainland Chinese government who took over in 1945. Read More »
Ninja Hunter (1987) Kuo-Ren Wu, Alexander Rei Lo, Kuan-Wu Lung, William Yen, Action, Fantasy
Abbot Withe of the Wu Tang clan has teamed up with the Ninjas in order to destroy Shaolin this making him the most powerful fighter in the Martial world. Read More »
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Ang Lee, Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity Read More »
Good Men, Good Women (1995) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Giong Lim, Jack Kao, Drama, Romance
Intended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan began with Beiqing Chengshi (1989), this film reveals the story through three levels Read More »