Taiwan Story

A four-part series that explores the interpretation of four Taiwanese songs.

Taiwan Ah Cheng

~~ Two versions available: 245 episodes (Original) || 200 episodes (Rebroadcast)

Taiwan Tornado

Chi-Chung Huang is the second son of the Huang family, which owns Taiwan Chao-Lian Group. Chi-Chung and his older brother, Chi-Long Huang, bribe the prosecutor for a death penalty case that his family is involved in.…

Face Taiwan

30 years after the Taiwanese New Wave first emerged, the veterans such as Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming Liang remain active in their careers. Ten of Edward Yang’s former assistants have become directors. The filmmakers…

Made in Taiwan

Under the elusive name 'Made In Taiwan', experimental film maker Jack invents an exciting type of film, which induces a high in the viewer and becomes an underground phenomenon throughout Taipei. With the help of Amy…

Ten Years Taiwan

The film consists of five segments speculating the future of Taiwan in 2028. "The Can of Anido” - reflects the fractured psyche of an aboriginal man living in Orchid Island, he experiences traumatic visions of nuclear…

Queer Taiwan

7.1

The animosity between the Equality Bees and the Family Guardian Coalition has worsened since the passing of the marriage equality bill. The supporters of the bill cannot accept the opposers’ views, and the latter…

The Bonfire of Taiwan

Tien-Fu Liu (a tycoon who is well connected in politics and business) and his son, Won-Tsung Liu, have been buying and selling large amounts of illicit drugs. Cheng-Hsien Lee (a police officer with the Criminal Investigation…

Taiwan! Let's Get Married!

8.0

Taiwan's quest for marriage equality

Our Youth in Taiwan

A star of the Taiwanese student movement, a celebrity Chinese student who loves Taiwan, and a Taiwanese documentary filmmaker passionate about politics. Each of them shared dreams of rebellion and building a better…

Hsieh Pei Ju

Hsieh graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts and earned her MFA at Columbia University, USA. She is one of the directors of Ten Years Taiwan which was nominated for Best Narrative Feature at 2018 Taipei Film Awards. Her feature debut "Heavy Craving" received Script Development Award at HAF…

Xi Juan

Born in Taiwan, Xi Juan is one of the most prolific and popular writers in modern China. The writer’s real name is Wu Zhen Ying, but she began using the pen name when she started writing. Xi Juan’s Chinese romance novels were first published in 1993 and, since then, she has published between three…

Mao Huang

A senior filmmaker in Taiwan, Patrick Mao Huang received his master's degree from the Film Program of the Columbia University. He is a film producer, distributor, and film festival curator. In 2002, he established the film production and distribution company called Flash Forward Entertainment, which…

Bai Lan

Born in Taiwan, Bai Lan, was an actress who appeared in nearly 100 films from 1950-1988. After she retired from acting, she emigrated to Australia.

Wang Hsiang

Born in Taiwan, actor Wang Hsiang worked in mostly Taiwanese films for over four decades beginning in 1960.

Alexander Lo

Alexander Lo won the Taiwan 1978 Tae Kwan Do championship and got into the movie business after his older brother Tong Lung introduced him to director Robert Tai, with whom he most frequently collaborated. Alexander worked on many films about Ninjas, such as Wu Tang vs. Ninja (1987), The Super Ninja…

Sun Chung

Born in 1940 in Taiwan, he graduated from the state-run film school in Taiwan before becoming a production intern. There he developed his filming and editing ability which led to a deeply emotional visual style. While his first film as director was a Taiwanese comedy, he was equally adept at satire,…

Betty Ting Pei

Born in Taiwan, Betty comes from a family of three generations of doctors and also has eminent historical figures as relatives in her ancestral Beijing, China. On her father's side, her uncle was Zhang Xue Liang, the general of the National Revolutionary Army in the 1920s, while her mother was descended…

Zhang Li Wei

Born in 1968 in Taiwan, he is known for his many support roles. Since 2000, he mainly works in Mainland China productions.

Ling Yun

A native of Taiwan, Ling Yun (b. 1941) was born Lin Lung Sung and at the age of 18 began acting under the name Lung Sung in Taiwanese and Mandarin dialect films. After completing the two years of military service that is compulsory in Taiwan, he was recruited by Shaw Brothers in 1964 and moved to Hong…