Three women with completely different personalities met together to start a business due to unexpected circumstances. On this unfavorable road to entrepreneurship, they will eventually learn to laugh at the setbacks, not admit defeat, but grow!...
In the red light district of 1980s Taipei, women at a popular Japanese night club navigate jealousy, heartbreak, friendship and love....
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If the law and its enforcement has worked, then the world needs gods no more... When facing the dilemma with no right answer in this world full of ambiguity, Lou I-fang, the Master of the shrine and the Chief of the village will stand out to do justice right. Together with his assistant and fellow lawyers, they team up to bring hope to people whenever crime or unfairness emerge. If only they could also face the doubts within themselves......
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...
Taiwanese variety show Let’s Go Home, which sees host Bowie Tsang following celebrities back to their respective hometowns....
This anthology series set during the pandemic follows 10 unique love stories of passion and heartache....
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Park Seok, the café owner, makes coffee for coffee addicts of all kinds; they include office workers, housewives and his rivals who come to investigate. Day after day, Park Seok serves his customers till late evening. His track records have made him a legend in the coffee business in Taiwan, and since he met Gang Gobi, Park Seok has stopped taking in any more apprentices. Together, the duo embarks on the exploration of coffee. During the journey, they both encounter the love of their lives. In a...
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Part-time vlogger Chu Ai uses her channel to speak candidly about sex. But in real life, she finds that subject to be so much trickier....
A ten-part hour-long series that follows the aftermath of a mass-shooting where all parties involved - the killer, the victims, the victims’ families, the media and the defense teams, whose fates are all intertwined....
Waking up from a coma, an accomplished headhunter finds herself in an alternate reality where she has to revisit an excruciating childhood trauma....
The story describes Taiwan in the 70s, when it's economy is beginning to take off, and the daily pains of the Taiwanese workers....
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...
Wei-lai, a 26-year-old woman, has worked hard to become the top choice for others. She is neither exceptionally intelligent nor conventionally attractive, with an ordinary appearance and a modest educational background. People rate her as 3.5 stars. In contrast, her older sister Bao-qian is the complete package. They have had a love-hate relationship since childhood. Undeterred, Wei-lai decides to seize the opportunity and continue working hard. Even if she can’t reach the status of a five-star ...
Jung Long, has left home to study in Taipei, only to return to be the keeper of the family grocery store after his grandfather has gotten ill. However, he is not just guarding the store, but also the rich emotions and sentiments within it, and Jung Long’s memories of growing up are once again reawakened by his return....
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A story revolving around a car accident, coded letters and hidden secrets from the past. Su Yan may seem bright and cheery on the outside but inside is a young woman who is full of insecurities. Because she refuses to open up, she often gets into disagreements with her family and friends. Through the support and care of her boyfriend Lu Jin Yu, Su Yan decides to write letters to her friends on the eve before her wedding to reveal her honest feelings and a truth about the past. The letters open ...
Remake by Quek Shio Chuan...
Double-crossed after a bank heist, a team of professional thieves attempts an even more challenging mission: returning the money they stole....
Tommy, a YouTuber known for scamming people with his fake exorcism skills, faces a real challenge when he must save his partner, Alumi, from a zombie demon. Teaming up with Sanjay, an Indian exorcist and computer geek determined to avenge his exorcist guru grandfather, Babaji, Tommy must step up. Will they succeed in their mission, and can Sanjay put aside his quest for revenge to work with Tommy?...
According to legend, Yangminshan’s Chinese Culture University sits where the realms of the living and dead collide. The architecture was originally given an auspicious “bagua” design to ward off evil, but was instead maliciously changed into an “inverse bagua”. Countless apparition sightings and paranormal incidents have plagued the university ever since. Three years ago, a student developing an augmented reality horror game at the university fell into a coma following a mysterious elevator acci...
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In 2009, 28-year-old Li Zi Wei and 17-year-old Huang Yu Xuan met each other. These are two innocent and unaffected lives that could each feel like marks from their past and present lives. However, they could not find sufficient proof to fill up the emptiness at the bottom of their hearts. An accident let them fall into another Mobius loop that had already happened countless times. Only then did they realize that in different times and spaces, they once had a deep, true love that had passed thro...
A former basketball player bonds with a robber and becomes attracted to a dark lifestyle....
In Taipei, a rehearsal for Kafka’s Metamorphosis is in full swing as the show’s opening night approaches. Lin’s girlfriend, Julie, is visiting him from Paris. After the rehearsal, he picks her up at the airport and they spend the night together. In the morning, Lin is nowhere to be found and leaves Julie waiting at his apartment...
Four years after five students mysteriously committed suicide after taking part in a courage test on the ghost bridge in Donghu university, a reporter and a cinematographer are back to that place and try to get everything clear....
The movie "Bad Boys Symphony" describes a group of young prisoners learned to play music......
A student and political activist becomes the new housemate of a solitary painter. He is brusque and disillusioned, she is filled with hope. Outside, Taiwan is heading towards new presidential elections. Contemporary Asian cinema at its best, in which it's all about timing and rhythm. A visually impressive, layered thriller about politics, art and murder....
After a bizarre bus accident, Ming Ze awakens from a coma to discover that his mind now shares the consciousness of four fellow passengers – all of them dead; all of them suspects in a serial kidnapping and murder case. To prove his own innocence, Ming evades capture by the police and tries to track down the killer’s only surviving victim. But in order to unmask the murderer’s true identity, Ming must first fight the monster within himself....
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The film is set in a pre-Covid Taipei, where a group of disenchanted souls are lost in a parallel virtual world....
Energetic, colourful reworking of Shakespeare’s love story played entirely by women, set in the bustling metropolis of Taipei....
Fei works illegally as a hustler in order to support his family, yet when he realizes they are willing to accept his money but not his way of life, there is a major breakdown in their relations. Through his relationship to the headstrong Long, Fei seems able to find a new lease on life, but then he encounters Xiaolai, the love of his youth, who confronts him with the guilt of his repressed past....
The story centers on CHEN Wei and her daughter, seeking refuge from CHEN Wei’s violent husband in the Butterfly Mansion, known for its eerie reputation as a suicide hotspot. Strange events unfold, and warnings from Uncle LIANG, the building’s janitor, and Uncle Shan, the temple caretaker who lives on the top floor, about the unsafe floor are ignored due to financial constraints. Neighbors like Ah Di, who sees spirits, and the forbidden Room No. 613, intensify CHEN’s unease. Substitute manager Xi...