It is an adaptation of the 1979 play of the same name by Sha Yexin, Li Shoucheng and Yao Mingde, set in mainland China. Read More »
Tag Archives: Taiwan
Island Etude AKA Lian xi qu (2006) Huai-en Chen, Ming-hsiang Tung, Danny Deng, Saya Chang
Travelling is always the best way to encounter true stories. Ming-Hsang, a deaf, decided to cycle around Taiwan before graduating from the college. Read More »
The Puppetmaster AKA Xi meng ren sheng (1993) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Tian-Lu Li, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng
This Hou Hsiao Hsien masterpiece is a portrait of the childhood and adolescence of octogenarian Taiwanese puppet master Read More »
Dragon Inn (1967) King Hu, Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai
The Eunuch of the Emperor has ordered the commander of his army condemned to death for betrayal and insurrection. Read More »
Moonlight Boy AKA Yue guang shao nian (1993) Wei-Yen Yu, Te-Chien Hou, Elaine Jin, Yuan-Chi Lu
The titular boy in the moonlight is actually the young spirit of a man, who has been in a kind of vegetative state for the last 30 years. Read More »
Help Me, Eros AKA Bang bang wo ai shen (2007) Kang-sheng Lee, Hui-Jen Liao, Dennis Nieh
Ah Jie lost everything in the stock market due to a severe economic crisis. Read More »
Darkness and Light AKA Hei an zhi guang (1999) Tso-chi Chang, Kang-i Lee, Ming-shiou Tsai, Bau-huei Shie
Kang-Yi is a teenage girl who lives in an apartment building in the port city of Keelung. Read More »
The Boys from Fengkuei AKA Feng gui lai de ren (1983) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chun-Fang Chang, Shih Chang, Grace Chen
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village Read More »
Lust, Caution AKA Se, jie (2007) Ang Lee, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
Frustrated in his attempts to assassinate Yee, who is an important official in Japanese-ruled Shanghai Read More »
Osmanthus Alley AKA Gui hua xiang (1987) Kun-Hou Chen, Hsiao-Fen Lu, Hsiu-Ling Lin, Simon Yam
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 »
Fleeing by Night AKA Ye ben (2000) Li-Kong Hsu, Chi Yin, Rene Liu, Lei Huang, Chao-te Yin
Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Read More »
A Sun AKA Yang guang pu zhao (2019) Mong-Hong Chung, Chien-Ho Wu, Yi-wen Chen, Samantha Shu-Chin Ko
A Sun follows a troubled family of four. A-Ho, the younger son, has always been a problematic child Read More »
Face AKA Visage (2009) Ming-liang Tsai, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu, Fanny Ardant
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth. Read More »
Journey to the West AKA Xi you (2014) Ming-liang Tsai, Kang-sheng Lee, Denis Lavant
In “Journey to the West,” helmer Tsai Ming-liang’s perennial protagonist, Lee Kang-sheng Read More »
The Fatal Flying Guillotine (1977) Raymond Lui, Carter Wong, Sing Chen, Shao-Peng Chen
Those rascally Shaolin monks are at it again, and this time they’re tracking down some vitriolic villains who have heisted a sacred book. Read More »