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A young woman named Lin-Lang has served a long jail term for terrorist actions against Taiwan’s rulmg KMT party. The society she returns to is very different from the one she left: former radicais have gone soft and become middle-class, the former political opposition has become respectableand lost its edge, everyone has grown nakedly materialistic. But the biggest shock for Lin-Lang is the discovery that her lover—the man who taught her radical politics, the man who got her pregnant, the man she went to jail for—has married someone else. He and his wife have a child, and he runs a small coffee-shop which doubles as a meeting-place for students of Chinese mysticism. Almost deranged with shock and the sense of betrayal, Lin-Lang impulsively kidnaps the man’s child…

Hsu Hsiao-Ming’s intense and sombre drama knocks down one more long-standing Taiwanese taboo by showing the KMT’s brutal attack on prodemocracy demonstrators in the city of Kaohsiung in 1979. But his point here is not to lament the death of old ideals. What concerns him is the way that real political questions have been made to seem irrelevant in the gogetting nineties, and the way that one young woman in particular reacts to having everything she believed in snatched away from her. Finally, you see, Heartbreak Island is a love story. A love story with a sad ending.

Hsiao-Ming Hsu - (1995) Heartbreak Island.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/109AC5974DCDFE1/Hsiao-Ming_Hsu_-_(1995)_Heartbreak_Island.mkv

Language(s):Min Nan
Subtitles:Chinese, English (hard-coded)

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In the 1920’s, when Taiwan is Japan’s colony, the small town Chiu-Fen was famous of its gold mines. Escaping from the landlord’s control, Chu and Wei join the gold rush in Chiu-Fen, hoping that they can be rich and have their own land some day. The are two kinds of women in the small town : hard working housewives and prostitute. The formers are always struggling in poverty. Jou is one of them. People believe that she is doomed to be a widow. She married twice. Both of her husbands are dead. Che falls in love with her anyway. He becomes her third husband in despite of people’s warning. Many of the masters of brothels make a future from prostitution business as well as the black market of gold. Wei loves Fumiko, a young prostitute. He decides to buy back her freedom.

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https://nitro.download/view/D71F68DFD41C820/Hill.of.No.Return.1992.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Min Nan,Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Forest fires burn in Sumatra; a smoke covers Kuala Lumpur. Grifters beat an immigrant day laborer and leave him on the streets. Rawang, a young man, finds him, carries him home, cares for him, and sleeps next to him. In a loft above lives a waitress. She sometimes provides care and attention. More violence seems a constant possibility. They find another man abandoned on the street, paralyzed. They carry him. While no one speaks to each other, sounds dominate: coughing, cooking, coupling, opening bags; music and news reports on a radio, the rattle and buzz of a restaurant. It’s dark in the city at night. We see down hallways, through doors, down alleys. Who sleeps with whom?

Extras:
● Tony Rayns – (2007) Interview with Director Ming-liang Tsai

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Language:Min Nan,Malay,Mandarin,Bengali
Subtitles:English

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Laichun, her father and two mothers, uncle and grandfather are of different generations; thus they all think differently. Father is the family head, and because he believes he must continue on the family name ends up taking two wives. His first wife also feels the same way, and so allows the second wife. Laichun feels the abyss between her and her parents and ends up getting pregnant, but hits a wall when her boyfriend does not take any responsibility. When her father is hospitalized, she begins to understand her father and two mothers. She is finally growing up.

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https://nitroflare.com/view/6B24EB1141EAB0D/Tso-chi_Chang_-_(2010)_When_Love_Comes.mkv
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Language(s):Min Nan | Chinese | Mandarin
Subtitles:English

The post Tso-chi Chang – Dang ai lai de shi hou AKA When Love Comes (2010) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The happy lives of animals in the forest are stirred by the sudden attack of a pack of wolves. The Uncle Deer comes to rescue, and asks Birdy to notify his son, the deer. Sika Deer and the Deer are fighting for the Miss Deer inextricably. When the Deer rushed to his father, the Uncle Deer has died, and he asked his son to revenge before dying.

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https://nitro.download/view/5D6928D2FED04E5/The.Fantasy.of.Deer.Warrior.1961.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Min Nan
Subtitles:English, German

The post Ying Chang – Da xia mei hua lu AKA The Fantasy of Deer Warrior (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Director Wu Nien-Jen’s autobiographical portrait of his father and the family conflict that develops around him, set against the background of dramatic political change in Taiwan.

Sega, a coal-miner who grew up in the years of Japanese colonial rule over Taiwan, is more strongly attracted to Japanese identity and culture than to the Mainland Chinese model imposed after the Kuomintang takeover in 1945. His son Wen-Jian on the other hand, typically for his generation, has a natural allegiance to Chinese culture. He is baffled by and impatient with his father’s fondness for the Japanese, a bafflement intensified by the harshly negative portrayal of Japanese imperialist ambitions and wartime atrocities he is exposed to at school.

At the same time, Sega’s relationship with his wife and children alternates between abuse and affection, a pattern emblematic of postwar Taiwanese society as it navigates between competing versions of history.

Andrew Chan in Film Comment wrote:
[O]ne of Taiwanese cinema’s most clear-eyed explorations of family dynamics—a distinction it shares with [Edward] Yang’s Yi Yi, which introduced Wu to Western audiences in the role of yet another discontented father figure…Wu questions how knowable a family ultimately is, even to those who belong to it. The unspoken anxiety permeating his recollections is that his profound attachment to his father might unravel under scrutiny, proving as inexplicable and illusory as Sega’s stubborn identification with a Japan he never visited. Few films have so vividly re-created the sensation of having known another human being for one’s entire life, while simultaneously evoking the suspicion that all along one has loved a stranger.

Nominated by Martin Scorsese as third on his list of the top 10 films of the 1990s. He told Roger Ebert: “The camera remains still, it lives with the characters, and it observes their most difficult emotional interactions with a restraint that often becomes painful. This is a movie that forces you to re-think how you view movies. If you go with it, if it clicks for you, the results are very rewarding.”

2.36GB | 2 h 47 min | 686×428 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/88A0FB6E6B0C22F/Duo.Sang.AKA.A.Borrowed.Life.1994.DVDRip.x264.mkv
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Language(s):Min Nan (with some Mandarin and a little Japanese)
Subtitles:Traditional Chinese (hardcoded); English (srt, default)

The post Nien-Jen Wu – Duo sang AKA A Borrowed Life (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Pickle is a night security guard at a bronze statue factory. His colleague, Belly Bottom, works as a recycling collector during the day, and Pickle’s biggest pleasure in life is flicking through the porn magazines Belly Bottom collects in the small hours in the security room. Having late night snacks and watching television are an integral part of their dull lives. One day when the television is broken, their lives are changed forever. The story involves gods, the middle-aged men’s sexual desire and the conversation between ghosts and humans. Maybe the audience will find it preposterous, but isn’t life itself a farce?

https://nitro.download/view/40BEFF872B2E5DC/Hsin-yao_Huang_-_(2017)_The_Great_Buddha_+.mkv

Language(s):Min Nan,Chinese
Subtitles:English

The post Hsin-yao Huang – The Great Buddha + (2017) first appeared on Cinema of the World.