Tag Archives: Mandarin

Produced by the Japanese Shochiku Company, this Taiwanese drama follows the lives of two generations of Taipei residents. Read More »

Like Huo’s Postmen in the Mountains, Nuan is a rural drama. The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who Read More »

“Door Latch” and his friend followed the KMT army and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Read More »

Kang-Yi is a teenage girl who lives in an apartment building in the port city of Keelung. Read More »

Set during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Kaige’s third film, King of the Children Read More »

In 1949, the Communists take over mainland. The refugees and the military arrive in the Keelung Harbor in Taiwan. Read More »

During the last years of Japanese occupation in Taiwan, as tenants from the preceding generation Read More »

This historical epic charts political intrigue among the Kipchaks Read More »

The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Read More »

Ti Hung’s parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to forget about the poverty. Read More »

A vivid slice-of-life depiction of migrant workers, both male and female, wasting their lives away through monotonous labor in small Read More »

Michael Hui and his brother Sam play two fellows who meet in jail. Michael is a real conman and Sam has aspirations to be one. Read More »

Private Eyes revolves the characters in a private detective agency headed by Wong Yuk-See (Michael Hui) with two employees Read More »

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 »

A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains. Read More »