A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers. Read More »
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Still Life (2006) Zhangke Jia, Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han
Against the backdrop of the mammoth Three Gorges Dam engineering project in the declining city of Fengjie Read More »
The Hole (1998) Ming-liang Tsai, Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Tien Miao
A strange disease starts to affect people in Taiwan just before the year 2000. Read More »
Cheerful Wind (1981) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Fei Fei Feng, Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan
A romance develops between a blind man and a photographer. Read More »
Goodbye, South, Goodbye (1996) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Hsiang Hsi, Kuei-Ying Hsu, Annie Shizuka Inoh
Produced by the Japanese Shochiku Company, this Taiwanese drama follows the lives of two generations of Taipei residents. Read More »
Nuan (2003) Jianqi Huo, Xiaodong Guo, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jia Li
Like Huo’s Postmen in the Mountains, Nuan is a rural drama. The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who Read More »
King of the Children (1987) Kaige Chen, Yuan Xie, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen
Set during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Kaige’s third film, King of the Children Read More »
Red Persimmon (1997) Tung Wang, Shih Chang, Jing-ping Chao, Cheer Chen
In 1949, the Communists take over mainland. The refugees and the military arrive in the Keelung Harbor in Taiwan. Read More »
Strawman (1987) Tung Wang, Chun-Fang Chang, Po-Chou Chang, Sheng Li Cho
During the last years of Japanese occupation in Taiwan, as tenants from the preceding generation Read More »
The Fall of Otrar (1991) Ardak Amirkulov, Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Tungyshpai Zhamankulov, Bolot Beyshenaliev
This historical epic charts political intrigue among the Kipchaks Read More »