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Tag Archives: Mandarin
If I Were for Real (1981) Tung Wang, Kuan-Chen Hu, Alan Tam
It is an adaptation of the 1979 play of the same name by Sha Yexin, Li Shoucheng and Yao Mingde, set in mainland China. Read More »
Run Away (1985) Tung Wang, Ju-Feng Ma, Emily Y. Chang, Bing-Chen Teng
Adapted from a short story by famed Taiwanese novelist, Chen Yu Hang, Run Away is set in the famine stricken Read More »
The Beheaded 1000 (1991) Shan-Hsi Ting, Joey Wang, Jimmy Wang Yu, Monica Chan
An executioner beheads his 1000th criminal, and unleashes a demon army headed by an evil witch called the Blood Lotus. Read More »
My Flying Wife (1991) Sing-Pui O, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Li Yu, Fennie Yuen
A woman who is in debt to loan sharks is about to commit suicide to escape her debts. Read More »
The Women From The Lake of Scented Souls (1993) Fei Xie, Gaowa Siqin, Yujuan Wu, Baoguo Chen
If money can’t buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Read More »
Temptress Moon (1996) Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung, Li Gong, Kevin Lin
Not far from Shanghai, in a country twon stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Read More »
Five Girls and a Rope (1990) Hung-Wei Yeh, Jing Ai, Shih Chang, Ying Chang
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. Read More »
A City of Sadness (1989) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung Young Chen
A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers. Read More »
Still Life (2006) Zhangke Jia, Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han
Against the backdrop of the mammoth Three Gorges Dam engineering project in the declining city of Fengjie Read More »
The Hole (1998) Ming-liang Tsai, Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Tien Miao
A strange disease starts to affect people in Taiwan just before the year 2000. Read More »
Cheerful Wind (1981) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Fei Fei Feng, Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan
A romance develops between a blind man and a photographer. Read More »
Goodbye, South, Goodbye (1996) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Hsiang Hsi, Kuei-Ying Hsu, Annie Shizuka Inoh
Produced by the Japanese Shochiku Company, this Taiwanese drama follows the lives of two generations of Taipei residents. Read More »
Nuan (2003) Jianqi Huo, Xiaodong Guo, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jia Li
Like Huo’s Postmen in the Mountains, Nuan is a rural drama. The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who Read More »
Banana Paradise (1989) Tung Wang, Shih Chang, Kai-Chun Chen, Lung Fang
“Door Latch” and his friend followed the KMT army and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Read More »