Taiwan

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab in a well fortified valley.Read More »

Synopsis
When his dangerous older brother is released from prison, high school fencer Jie helps him, defying their mother’s attempts to bury his existence.Read More »

Divorced and exhausted, retired actress Moon Lee is offered the chance of a comeback as the lead of a do-your-own stunts martial arts film.Read More »

Yen returns home after serving eight years in prison for saving her mother by killing her abusive father, only to find that her mother’s new boyfriend is also a violent man.Read More »

Ahda drops out of selling language tapes to pursue a quest for someone to teach him the secret of “vaulting”—the art of achieving weightlessness, as described in countless martial arts novels and movies. He’s fortified by the myth that three survivors from the legendary Red Lotus Society have gone to ground in Taiwan: the teacher he needs may be that herbalist, that woman executive or that janitor…Read More »

Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of them played ‘Peach Blossom’, a comedy in medieval costume. Another played ‘Secret Love’, a sad story with contemporary setting. Though unreconciled in all aspects, they find themselves telling the same story: the story of Chinese people forced to leave home.Read More »

Letterboxd Review by Voc_17 ★★★½
Chu Yen-Ping was Taiwan’s factory comedy filmmaker, he shat out films quickly with an extreme tonal whiplash between scenes of broad comedy, action and pathos, he is a junk food artist and it’s hard to make a case for him as being an effective filmmaker dramatically. However, I’m going to try and make a case for this film and by extension him because I kind of liked this movie a decent amount. Hsu Pu-Liao was a popular stage comic who Chu wanted to place within a Chaplin type narrative, although whole Chaplin’s tramp was very poor he was never as downright miserable as Hsu is in this. The film will go especially early on from a broad but amusing comic setpiece to the stronger dose of pathos possible within a single cut, it’s bizarre but after awhile I felt it kind of working. Read More »

A housewife whose life only revolves her husband finds herself being cheated. She becomes angry and neurotic and can’t accept the fact at all. Finally, she realizes that the only choice she has is to compromise and to forgive, but it was already too late.Read More »

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Based on renowned novelist Kenneth Pai Hsien-yung’s novella, Jade Love is regarded as the best film adaptation of all of Pai’s work. Set in 1940s Southern China and told through the eyes of a 10 year old boy, Jung, the film relates the story of Jung’s beautiful nanny Jade and her mysteriously reclusive “younger brother” Ching Sheng. Jade is a middle-age woman who’s sweet and graceful appearance belies her unfulfilled inner life. The film represents complex desire within a tragic story and explores the situation of women in traditional Chinese society. It depicts female psychology in a classical, realist style within a nuanced and exquisite atmosphere.Read More »