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Tag Archives: Taiwan
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 »
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 »
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 »