
Produced by the Japanese Shochiku Company, this Taiwanese drama follows the lives of two generations of Taipei residents. Read More »
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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 »
Ninja Hunter (1987) Kuo-Ren Wu, Alexander Rei Lo, Kuan-Wu Lung, William Yen, Action, Fantasy

Abbot Withe of the Wu Tang clan has teamed up with the Ninjas in order to destroy Shaolin this making him the most powerful fighter in the Martial world. Read More »
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Ang Lee, Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang

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 »