Taipei, 1960. Un student de 14 ani, Chang Chen, cunoscut de toată lumea sub numele de Xiao Si'r („Micul Patru”, deoarece este al patrulea din cinci copii), primise o notă proastă la o materie anul trecut. Deși la toate celelalte materii a avut succes și este de fapt un elev bun, a trebuit să treacă de la „școala de zi” la „școala serală”. Tatăl său, un funcționar guvernamental din clasa de mijloc, este nemulțumit pentru că școlile serale au o reputație proastă. La școala, care se caracterizează prin strictețe militară, profesorii se adresează adesea elevilor doar cu numerele atribuite. Preocupările tatălui nu sunt neîntemeiate: ciocniri brutale izbucnesc în mod repetat între Micii Băieți Din Park și Cei 217, două bande de tineri.
Bucătarul șef Chu locuiește într-o casă mare în Taipei împreună cu cele trei fiice nemăritate ale sale, Jia-Jen, o profesoară de chimie convertită la creștinism, Jia-Chen, care lucreză la o companie aeriană și Jia- Ning, o studentă care lucrează într-un fast-food. Viața din casa lui Chu se desfășoară în jurul cinelor elaborate, cine de duminică și al vieților amoroase ale membrilor familiei…
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
Cel mai accesibil si probabil cel mai bun film al lui Edward Yang de la "O zi de vara mai stralucitoare", "Si una si doua" urmareste perioada de viata a trei generatii ale unei familii din Taipeiul contemporan cuprins intre o nunta si o inmormantare si, desi dureaza aproape trei ore, niciun moment al filmului nu pare superfluu.
An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
An ambitious journalist who witnessed a hit-and-run years ago reboots his investigation led by newly emerged clues. As he beats the clock to save the only survivor after her sudden disappearance, layers of unimaginable dark truths around a corrupted system start peeling.
An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.
The youthful Vicky is torn between two men, Hao-Hao and Jack. At night she works as a PR person at a night club to support both of them. Hao-Hao keeps vigilance over her all the time, no matter she is on or off the job. He checks her charge accounts, telephone bills, mobile phone records, and even her body odor in an attempt to trace Vicky’s activities. She cannot stand him any longer; she runs away.
A force of loners and fighters is put together to try and rescue the generals and save the war effort with the promise of gold and pardons of past crimes.
Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service" follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in preparation for a war that could erupt anytime. Through an unlucky lottery draw result, Pao, a twenty-something young man from Southern Taiwan has to serve the military in the remote and perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB), a unit noted for the toughest physical training. It never occurs to Pao, however, that the greatest challenge in his military service lies not in the Sea Dragon but in Unit 831, a special task he is later appointed to… In this peculiar assignment, Pao vows to keep his virginity against all odds.
The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese Civil War. It also marks the frontline for Taiwan in its escalating tension with China.
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China.
After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values.
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.
Chuck Connors stars in this routine martial arts feature as the Colonel. He sends agents Sonny (Mike Kelly) and Dennis (George Nichols) to Taiwan in search of microfilm containing experiments on genetic engineering. The agents soon find themselves up against Japanese killers known as the Sakura who plan to sell United States secrets to the Soviet Union. Sonny and Dennis train with a martial arts master in order to fight the enemy and obtain the coveted microfilm.
Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood.
A commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Chinese authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on board, but agree to cooperate with Taiwanese authorities to defuse the tense situation.
Robert Wallace travels to Hong Kong to bust a gang of drug trafficker's. There he finds help from Tang and Suzy, as well as his fellow Supermen Max & Jerry.