Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

6.9

A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.

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…

Lord Jia Qing and the Journey to Taiwan

Sounds of Taiwan: A Symphony by Bao Yuankai

During the 1990s, Chinese musician Yuan-kai Bao was invited to Taiwan as a guest professor teaching music at a university. He has fallen deeply in love since then with the local culture, which thus inspired him to…

Island of Mountains: Believe It or Not. This is Taiwan!!!

This series presents young mountain climbers’ life stories and the mountains that have had a profound influence on them. In it, we see the therapeutic power of nature and the topic of adventure under life-threatening…

Taiwan Story

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

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…

Taiwan! Let's Get Married!

8.0

Taiwan's quest for marriage equality

Yeh Shih Tao, a Taiwan Man

Writer Yeh Shih Tao was an important literary master in Taiwan. With the premise of Taiwan consciousness, he wrote A History of Taiwanese Literature to lay the foundation for our literature. During his writing career…

Time for Taiwan

6.7

A guy is traveling through Taiwan solo and takes the wrong train and a girl ends up showing him around. The couple is seen cycling around Sun Moon Lake, a popular tourist resort advertised as the epitome of Taiwan’s…

Xia Guang Li

Taiwan-born actress Xia Guang Li aka Ha Kwong Li was discovered by director Lee Tso Nam. At a young age she was enrolled in the Liu Kwang Opera Troupe and her tall slender figure was an asset to her kicking which became her trademark in the films she appeared in. Besides working in movies, she also…

Takamatsu Toyojiro

Often seen as one of the key figures in Taiwan's early cinema. Takamatsu arrived in Taiwan in 1903 bringing to the Japanese colony his popular travelling film show which he began in Japan at the turn of the century. In 1907 he produced Taiwan's first film, an educational documentary titled Taiwan Jitsukyo…

Wang Shau Di

Wang Shau Di is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter. After graduating from the Department of Theatre at the University of Culture, he went to the United States to obtain a Master's degree in Theatre from Trinity University in Texas, and then studied film at the University of San Francisco. After returning…

Hou Hsiao Hsien

Hou Hsiao-hsien is noted Taiwanese filmmaker who has been creating films since 1980. He is well known as a pioneer in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement during the 1980s and 1990s. His autobiographical "A Time to Live, A Time to Die" (1985) was his first internationally successful film. Hou's "A City…

Alan Song

He is a Taiwan actor and model.

Judy Ong

Judy Ong is a Taiwan-born Japanese singer, actress, author, and woodblock-print artist.

Mark Lee

Lee Ping Bin joined Taiwan’s major film studio Central Motion Pictures Corp. as a camera assistant in 1977. He was involved in the early, pioneering days of the Taiwanese New Wave. Since “A Time to Live and A Time to Die,”(1985) Lee has collaborated with Hou Hsiao Hsien on “Dust in the Wind,”(1986)…

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.

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…

Evan Luo

Evan Luo is a Taiwan actor and model, also a screenwriter. He studied in US when he was 12 years, currently studying at National Taipei University of the Arts-Theater Department & Theater Art Creation Institute major in script writing.