One day, the members noticed Ju Gan with a sad face. After asking, they realized that he couldn’t solve his case. The members noted that without any idea of where the deceased was, of course the truth could not be discovered. Then out of the blue, Ju Gan had an idea where he invited the members of the club to the scene of the crime and each one plays the victim to see if this would help the police solve the case. Suddenly, a homicide took place in the neighborhood. With her vast knowledge of di...
The series is about a murder investigation which has similarities to a cold case from three years ago. During the investigation, the lead detective (Pinna), an up-and-coming public official (Chuang) and rookie policeman (Liu) are drawn together into a dark labyrinth of power play....
The defeated Kao Jia Yue suddenly comes back home after many years. Many people feel awkward about his return, and hope he will leave soon. His nephew Cheng Yu is the only exception, as he finds Jia Yue different from other adults. Jia Yue realizes everyone, including himself, is struggling in life with so many challenges. His parents have an unhappy marriage, his second brother doesn’t feel he belongs at home, and his third brother is bewildered about his future. However, they continue to stumb...
Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee Kang-sheng (“Days,” “Goodbye, Dragon Inn”) are attached to “Twisted Strings”, a TV anthology series backed by HBO Asia and streamer Catchplay.The seven-part series is written and directed by Golden Horse-nominated director, Huang Xi (“Missing Johnny”). Hou is attached as the series executive producer. Lee, who has appeared exclusively in films over the past 30 years, notably those of famed Malaysian director...
A reborn gangster accidentally found himself being able to see ghosts, which led to a life-changing experience. "Guests" came to him for help one after another... Started from death, what did they want him to see?...
A reborn gangster accidentally found himself being able to see ghosts, which led to a life-changing experience. "Guests" came to him for help one after another... Started from death, what did they want him to see?...
A troubled psychologist returns from the U.S. and sets up a clinic in Taiwan, where mysterious patients and uncanny events shed light on his murky past....
Revolves around the theme of business intrigues, portraying the complexities of human nature and negotiation strategies in the business world filled with sex, power, and struggle....
After discovering his estranged daughter's link to mysterious murders, a forensic detective with Asperger's syndrome risks everything to solve the case....
Adapted from the popular short serial series "Canned Fears," it is composed of four short films of different types: "Spiritual, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller"....
There is a another soul living in CaCa's body. Just as she decides to come clean with her biological gender, her boyfriend proposes to her. Should she confess, at the risk of losing all the happiness she ever had, or should she keep things the way they are? A phone call then takes her back to her hometown which she had long left behind, where her sister needs her to take care of their mother who is mentally ill....
An old man with a limp, Khim-Hok, has depended on his wife over the years. They live in an old house on the urban fringe of Taipei. After his wife suddenly passes away, Khim-Hok puts her into an old freezer and goes on living a seemingly peaceful life. But their long-estranged son and his new partner suddenly appears, so Khim-Hok has to face his wife's death when the end finally comes....
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An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is about to appear in....
In 1990, college student Ing, who accidently gets pregnant, returns to Lishan to spend the summer with her father. Ing notices the conflicts between her father and the farmers. She meets a young farmer Wen, and affection slowly grows between them. As summer ends, Ing leaves, and no one knows what the future will hold. To promote a new fertilizer, Ing's father gets a hot-air balloon, but hard as they try, it just can't fly....
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Four years ago, an accident chasing the swordfish took away the life of Captain Fu’s elder son. It was the last time the giant swordfish was seen. With no fish to catch, his other son Yee thinks about transforming the business. At the moment when their boat Victory is about to be abandoned, Fu meets a foreign boy Ruan who tells that the fish is still out there. Can’t resist the temptation, Captain Fu brings Yee and Ruan embarking on the journey to search for the giant swordfish. In their journe...
The day LIAO was discharged from prison with his maimed right hand was also the day NAN was forced to retire. NAN will no longer be the head of CIB, just as LIAO will no longer be a pickpocket. LIAO wants to find the young pickpocket who called him “Daddy” back then, while NAN misses his daughter badly, who hated him profoundly and was unwilling to forgive him. So the two desperate old fellows start trying to find their last hope....
A provocative erotic drama about a Japanese food delivery man, a Taiwanese prostitute and a Filipino cleaner who are swept up by their insatiable appetites for sex....
Billy is queer and depressed. He self-harms and is constantly bullied for his feminine appearance. After his biological father came out, he left an old camera to Billy. Billy’s mother remarried three times and moved to the United States with her current stepfather. After Billy’s younger sister drowned, the family was abandoned by their stepfather and had to return to Taiwan. One day, after taking a bath, Billy muttered to himself, “I promise to accompany you,” with several medicine jars beside h...
Three interrelated stories about life in New York City: A lonely interpreter; two young hip-hop dance enthusiasts; and a couple struggling to cope with their mentally ill son. They inspire one another in their journey of finding hope in this seemingly heavenly city....
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In Taiwan, a young woman, Lin-Lang, is released from prison after serving ten years for terrorist activity. She had turned to bomb making in grief after her mentor and lover, An Rong, who was also her university professor, was arrested for political activity and, she presumed, executed. In prison, she learns Rong is alive, and she maintains her spirits and sanity for the years in her cell by holding imaginary conversations with him. When she is released, she discovers he is married, has a child,...
Asheng, once a gang member of the Zhongshan District, was sent to jail for 12 years after saving his friend Shaou. He is released and returns to Linsen North Road, his old turf, finding it familiar yet perplexing after being away for so many years. Shaou is now a mob boss with his own turf. When the son of Seagull’s patron, Mr. Xiao, is murdered, the evidence points to up-and-coming mobster Monkey. Shauo tries to ambush Monkey and fails, getting shot by the drugged up gangster instead. Asheng, w...
Xiao Chi, a driven girl who's been looking for love, gets asked out by a hot guy on the eve of Valentine's Day. As she anticipates her first date, she wakes up the next morning and finds that the Valentine's Day has mysteriously passed....
Taiwanese film released in 1986....
Drug Prince Michael and Scorpion are seizing the old fellows' turfs, the gangs families tornado spins three nobodies who are trying to survive. You'll never know who's gonna get bit by reality through the alternation of generations?...
Taiwanese romance film....
When a rich guy met a poor gal and fell in love, his authoritative father disapproved of their relationship owing to his girlfriend’s complicated family background and a retarded brother. The gal was forced to leave but despite of all obstacles, the guy persevered in his effort to win his right for love…...
Kaiju film from 1982 period that appears to be sort of a Taiwanese variation of Clash of the Titans combining elements of Japanese monster movies, old school kung fu flicks, and a bit of horror....
Shaw Legend Chi Kuan Chun is the Hung Kuen Fist master who trains an undercover agent known as Queen Bee. His brutal style of Kung Fu comes in handy when the Queen Bee takes on the villains. Authentic Hung Gar Style action presented!...
A woman seeks revenge against the people responsible for her sister's death....
Mayor Guo of Wanhe City was seeking re-election but got kidnapped a few days before election day by a young man from the poor and seriously polluted area of the city. It was a scheme plotted by a local petrochemical company hoping to ensure Guo’s victory in the election so that their expansion application could be approve. However, this false kidnapping goes wrong, and soon everything is out of control....
Taiwanese war film based on a small-scale battle between the invading People's Liberation Army and the resisting Republic of China Armed Forces on a few small islands (including Dadan Island) in the Taiwan Strait in late July 1950....
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China....
In the remotest corner of southern Taiwan, the sinking fisherman´s village prepares for another carnival for the god. Sheng, a man reaching his 30s, returns in disguise as an established urban elite. As the carnival escalates, Sheng confronts his persistent father who farms oysters throughout his life and the childhood buddy who always envies his fragile “successfulness.”...
More than 20 years ago, there were three "Ban Dou" master chefs who dominated the catering business in Taiwan. However, the street banquet business has been in decline since Taiwan's economic boom. Master Fly Spirit wants to pass the family recipes and culinary skills on to his only child, Wan, but she desperately wants to run away from the family business and to become a film star....
A Tien is a construction worker who is at home due to a job accident, and along with his naughty daughter Xiao Chun (Haru), unexpectedly starts caring for a pig. Grandfather raises holy pigs and Haru stole a piglet to raise. A Tien, who was struggling with his family's finances, wants to see if the piglet has the ability to pick winning bets and tries to make a fortune through this holy pig. This is a story about ordinary people, the gap between the rich and the poor in today's society, and al...
An elderly Taiwanese farmer faces new struggles when his children attempt to put him into aged care....
To repay the gambling debts her boyfriend has left behind after a fatal pigeon racing accident, Barbie, a pole dancer, meets organ dealer Malacca, who extracts her deceased boyfriend's organs. Malacca becomes Barbie's lover in the process. Meanwhile, Yang, a detective, sets up a trap to capture Malacca....
Since Six was 18, he no longer knows what freedom is. He’s trapped in a wheelchair. His father, a taxi driver, drives him every day out to the streets to sell chewing gum. That’s how Six spends his days. Till he gets to meet a quiet girl, Noodles, who always shuts herself away in a small stationery store. Six barges into her world. He adds a touch of pheromone to the colorful but icy stationery store. Suddenly, everything becomes interesting....
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This is a story about ?evil inside ?, based on a true Taiwan social event. ?Evil inside? means the devil lives inside your heart, or the darkness inside your conscious; such as fear?hatred?greed?pride?stubbornness?selfishness. The darkness can be always exit, or come out in a sudden. It can hide and grow deeply in your mind to make you either become stronger or to be overwhelmed. The story happens in the present day of Taiwan society. ?The deceased collaborated organization ?as so called ? D.C.O...