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Tag Archives: Mandarin
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 »
Weekend Lover (1995) Ye Lou, Nai An, Hongshen Jia, Xiaoqing Ma
The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Read More »
Bitter Money (2016) Bing Wang, Ling Ling
A vivid slice-of-life depiction of migrant workers, both male and female, wasting their lives away through monotonous labor in small Read More »
The Private Eyes (1976) Michael Hui, Samuel Hui, Ricky Hui
Private Eyes revolves the characters in a private detective agency headed by Wong Yuk-See (Michael Hui) with two employees 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 »