Uncle Gecko
Xiao Chi, a driven girl who's been looking for love, gets asked out by a hot guy on the eve of Valentine's Day. As she anticipates her first date, she wakes up the next morning and finds that the Valentine's Day has mysteriously passed.
Un tímido estudiante de quinto grado, un profesor ortodoxo de mediana edad y un anciano gruñón experimentan su primer despertar sobre ellos mismos durante el Mundial de 1998 en China.
Chief
In a remote village, a con man disguised as a Taoist priest introduces a memory-erasing device to residents — but a dangerous plot looms.
Uncle Liang
En un rincón de la ciudad todo el mundo se ha convertido en un zombi. Después de que el novio de Jenny murirera durante el ataque de unos zombies, la joven tendrá que sorevivir enfrentándose a las adversidades. Con tal de seguir viva se aferra a Andy, quien le ayuda a escapar del peligro. El profesor de química se transforma por completo tras convertirse en un zombi, por lo que la persona amable y cariñosa se convierte en un ser despiadado. Los activistas deciden luchar contra los zombis en una batalla que enfrentará a estas criaturas con lo únco bueno que queda de la humanidad.
Wu Shuang-Chuan
Forzado a abandonar su país hace más de diez años, el otrora poderoso gánster, Wu Shuang Chuan, finalmente ha decidido que es hora de regresar a casa. Pero esa cálida bienvenida que a menudo había soñado recibir resultó no ser más que una esperanza vacía y deseos perdidos. Al regresar a su hogar, a Shuang Chuan no lo recibe su familia, si no las más duras realidades de la vida, específicamente que, durante su ausencia, su esposa ha muerto de cáncer y que su hijo, Wu Huai Wen, quien alguna vez estuvo felizmente casado, es ahora un padre divorciado que lucha por mantener una relación con su hijo rebelde, Wu Yi Heng.
Following the success of The Long Goodbye, the Taiwan Catholic Foundation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia has embarked on a second documentary film dealing with the plight of elderly people suffering from conditions like Alzheimer’s and other degenerative disorders resulting in memory loss. When Yesterday Comes takes the route of a compendium of four shorts by different directors.
老于
Lord Jiang
Ambientada en 1860, Warlords es una historia épica sobre tres hermanos de sangre que luchan en las legendarias contiendas bélicas y políticas hacia al final de la dinastía Quing (1644-1911).
A young woman moves into a Japanese-style house that's haunted by the ghost of a grieving widow who wants her "daughter" (i.e. whatever female happens to move in there) to join her in the afterlife.
Qin
Carol 'Do Do' Cheng portrays the tough, eventful life of "Mama Boss" from childhood in pre-1949 Guilin to disillusionment in 1970s Taipei, where she struggles to run a noodle shop and contend with a host of colourful customers.
Protection devices salesman candidate
An attractive and successful doctor places a personal ad in a newspaper to try to meet (and eventually marry) Mr. Right. A succession of blind dates ensues, featuring men who are lonely, desperate, dangerous and perverted.
This is a four-part anthology comedy. The themes of four parts are: car, house, body and friendship. The central characters are a plastic surgeon Chen, a nurse, an experienced maid, three energetic teenagers and a young couple. The stingy surgeon Chen treats a car and a man so differently that he could be a perfect example to show how treasonously modern people treat their cars and how indifferently they treat other people. The maid Ying is like a knight on her "iron horse" (a bicycle), fighting in the city. Every day she rushes home after work to wait up for a husband never returns. The new nurse has problem with her colleague because they support different idle. What she also doesn't know is the reason why her brother's girlfriend sends her free lunchbox so often. The truth is that her brother's girlfriend wants to get plastic surgery in the clinic. Almost everyone here is not satisfied with his/her body. Moreover, they try to change their body with quite violent ways.
Bus Driver
Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival.
Qiu
Winston Chen, a prominent businessman, goes missing after racking up $100 million in debts to the Taipei underworld. Two enforcers sent to find him, and they track down his son, Red Fish, the leader of a street gang.
Having spent a harrowing time in prison, Miao Wei looks up both former, casual lovers but also his childhood sweetheart Wennie. It's not long until they're married and off on a perfect path together but Miao Wei takes scars from his prison time into his intimate moments with Wennie. Claiming he loves her too much, the relationship begins falling apart in dangerous ways...
Two agile Hong Kong martial arts kids join up with a pair of bungling Chinese-immigrant beach bums on the sunny shores of Hawaii, where they divide their time between sophomoric kung-fu kid hijinks and their designated mission--tracking down a missing book whose secrets have fallen into the hands of a power-hungry villain.
Police Commissioner Ni Kwan
Cheung Ye Pang (Andy Lau) is a Cantonese detective out to combat opium sellers. Encountering high-level corruption along with close friends being murdered, Pang sets out to stop the dealers.
King Huai II of Chu
Insurrection deposes the tyrannical first emperor of China during the evil Qin Dynasty. Warrior/general Xiang Yu and the cunning peasant Liu Pang join forces to win through civil war. Xiang Yu's weakness for Lady Yu combine with Liu Pang's treachery result in Liu founding the legendary Han dynasty
Brother (as Paoming Ku)
Emerging from the Chinese film renaissance of the 1990s (Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine) this haunting folk tale set in rural China in the 1920s tells the story of a young woman forces to grieve the death of a man she was destined to marry. Combining astonishing visuals with intriguing plot turns, this moving drama is not to be missed. When the spirited Young Mistress (Wang Lan) is kidnapped on the way to her arranged wedding, the groom is killed in an explosion in an attempt to rescue her. The peasant charged with her care, Kui (Chang Shih) manages to free her but the groom's bitter mother forces the Young Mistress to honor her agreement by marrying a wooden statue of her son, and staying chaste. Director Jianxin Huang's fascinating exploration of forbidden love and rigid social hierarchy reveals a culture in turmoil, where tradition is taken to cruel extremes and young lovers may not survive.
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.
4th installment to the Naughty Cadets series.
En la década de 1950, la Guerra Civil China termina con la derrota de la República de China y el establecimiento de la China Comunista. Los soldados de la 93.a División se llevan a sus familias con ellos, salen del suroeste de China y entran en el norte de Birmania (Myanmar). La caminata por el bosque está llena de desastres y escasez de suministros, pero los sobrevivientes llegan y se establecen dentro de la frontera de Birmania. Construyen una aldea y se alían con una banda armada local para resistir los ataques del gobierno birmano. Más tarde, el gobierno reubicado de la República de China ofrece llevar a los soldados y dependientes a Taiwán, pero algunos están decepcionados con el gobierno y deciden quedarse.
A group of police women keep the city safe. A normal day day includes everything from battling robbers to going undercover to break up a arms deal that threatens the city.
Little Big Man is a Taiwanese Comedy starring Eric Tsang.
A rich young woman's world collapses in one night, when her apparently respectable businessman father is killed by gangsters, who turn out to be former members of his gang.
Taiwanese army comedy.
Hu Wei Tan
Taiwan Comedy directed by Kevin Chu Yen-Ping and starring Eric Tsang and Stanley Fung.
Peach Boy and his mother live in a village. One day, there is a young man that suddenly comes to the village and asks Peach Boy to be his teacher because. At the same time, the elder of the devil palace wants to set Peach Boy to the deathtrap. They grasp children in order to have better martial arts skills. Peach Boy becomes righteous and indignant, he decides to exorcise the demons, but unexpectedly, his mother is killed by the devil. The battle between Peach Boy and the devil is unavoidable... (taken from the VCD release)
Naughty Cadets 3 aka Big Headed Recruit 3 is a Taiwanese Comedy staring Eric Tsang.
Selected criminals are being trained to fill in vacancies for police.
Selected criminals are being trained to fill in vacancies for police.
A story of three childhood friends who grow up to live starkly different lives, and how their lives intersect - one being a cop, one a gang leader, and one a destitute gambler.
Police Chief
Los destinos de varios personajes se cruzan fortuitamente: una joven eurasiática que logra huir de una emboscada de la policía; un fotógrafo que capta el momento en el que su pareja es detenida; una escritora que recibe una llamada fortuita en la que una mujer le comunica que espera un hijo de su marido; y éste, que ve como el mundo se le derrumba.
Taiwanese war film based on a small-scale battle between the invading People's Liberation Army and the resisting Republic of China Armed Forces on a few small islands (including Dadan Island) in the Taiwan Strait in late July 1950.
Sai Chu Chu's Assistant
Los grandes maestros del kung fu se enfrentan en una batalla épica con la esperanza de ganar la posesión de la reliquia más preciada de las artes marciales: la misteriosa y mortal daga de jade púrpura. La leyenda dice que el individuo que posea la daga tendrá la capacidad de derrotar a cualquier oponente.
Carefree days, youth and summertime. It is on a day like that when Hsin-lun meets Wendy and Johnny meets Bessie. Love blossoms. Hsin-lun and Wendy are married but Bessie is jilted by Johnny. After college, Hsin-lun joins a construction company. He is unhappy, what with the company's corrupt ways and a domineering manager. On the point of resigning, he learns of a traffic accident in which Wendy and his brother are injured. Wendy has a miscarriage. The need for money changes Hsin-lun completely. He becomes part of a gang...
Taiwanese fantasy film from Yu Han-Hsiang, director of REVENGE OF THE SHAOLIN KID (1978), BURNING OF THE RED LOTUS MONASTERY (1982) and THE DWARF SORCERER (1974)
