Tag Archives: Mandarin

Postman tells the Decalogue-like story of Xiao Dou, an introverted young postal worker who is suddenly promoted from installing mail boxes to delivering letters. Read More »

This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker’s own boyhood. Read More »

Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan’s Cold War period. Read More »

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 »

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 »

“The World” is a theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, sixteen kilometers from the Chinese capital Read More »

Keung suffers from a recurring nightmare in which a woman in red chases him down a highway and tries to kill him with a plastic toy jet. Read More »

A spurned lover seeks a rich man for revenge. A random onlooker — who witnessed the public assault committed by the rich man against the lover Read More »

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 »

Just as in her previous film, Oxhide, the Chinese director films herself and her parents in their rather claustrophobic apartment with documentary realism. Read More »