Mark Lee Ping-Bing

Austin Lin opens the night of the 58th Golden Horse Award Ceremony, and pays his tribute to the magic of film, with a short film and the song “Contentment”.

A new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of "Flowers of Shanghai," featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Mark Lee Ping-bing, producer and editor Liao Ching-sung, production designer Hwarng Wern-ying, and sound recordist Tu Duu-chih.

UN HOMBRE AMBICIOSO Y MUNDIAL, ALTAMENTE ESCÉPTICO SOBRE UNA AMENAZA REPENTINA Y MISTERIOSA PARA SU VIDA, DEBE ENCONTRAR UNA MUJER EXCEPCIONAL Y MÁGICA SI DEBE SOBREVIVIR MÁS DE SIETE DÍAS

Hong moves to Chongqing from Yinchuan with her six-year-old daughter Ye after her divorce. Ten years later, Ye is still emotionally attached to her father, but her mother's new boyfriend Liu eventually moves into their house. Ye is confused by Liu's attitude towards her and has a hard time deciphering its ambivalence. This causes her much anxiety. She reminisces about the past, and goes back and forth between a fragmented reality and her dreams, until the day her mother leaves with Liu. She decides to take the path of escape, as her mom did, and return to her hometown. However she soon comes to realize that her hometown had disappeared one night several years ago.

In this documentary we see Khyentse Norbu (director of The Cup, 1999) in Nepal during the filming for his latest film Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache, where he effortlessly switches between working with the hip film crew and performing ancient Buddhist rituals.

Dos jóvenes extraños se conocen en un tren durante un largo viaje. Diez años después, tras ser novios, lo dejaron. Ahora, pasada una década, vuelven a encontrarse en un viaje en avión.

The movie "Seventy-seven Days" is based on the authentic stories of exploration writer Yang Ysong-Song 77 days alone through the Qiangtang no man's land. Movie, lost in the life of the self-man hovering in the snow-capped heights of no man's land, the film is still optimistic about life disability, she let him firm to try unmanned eyes of people in the world can not be done Fantasy adventure trip ... ... two very real state of the true character, in good faith, courage to face the fate of choice challenges, tireless pursuit of the original inner dreams and true self ... the film in the rhythm, picture, tension will give The audience's strong visual impact allows the audience to follow the hero through an unparalleled adventure trip.

When Huiying hears that her mother's dying wish is to be buried next to her husband, she discovers that his remains are in the countryside and cared for by his first wife. A conflict ensues, and Huiying's daughter, an intrepid reporter, breaks the story as the three women search for proof of love.

Cuando Valentine se casa con 20 años con Jules estamos a finales del siglo XIX. A finales del siglo siguiente, una joven parisina, la bisnieta de Valentine, corre en un puente y acaba en brazos del hombre que ama. Entre estas dos épocas, hombres y mujeres se encuentran, se aman, se abrazan, mostrando así los destinos románticos de una generación.

Mysterious, sublime and elegiac, director Yang Chao’s odyssey blends breathtaking images with fantasy, poetry and history to create a complex magical universe. From the Shanghai metropolis to the snow-capped Tibet mountain, Gao Chun steers his cargo up the Yangtze, a river that has nurtured a centuries-old civilization. He comes across An Lu, a beautiful woman who appears in a different identity at every port recorded by a poetry book. Longing for her company, he realizes she gradually turns younger as he journeys upstream. He starts to wonder whether An Lu is supernatural or he is traveling not only in space but also in time. After passing a pagoda that reverberates Buddha’s voice, a flooded town reappeared elsewhere, the grandiose Three Gorges Dam and many other places where lives have been transformed, he finally arrives at the start of the Yangtze, where he unveils the secret of his past and An Lu.

China, siglo IX. Nie Yinniang regresa a casa de su familia tras años de exilio. Educada por una monja que la inicia en las artes marciales, es una auténtica justiciera cuyo objetivo es eliminar a los tiranos. Su maestro le encarga la misión de matar a su primo Tian Ji'an, gobernador disidente de la provincia militar de Weibo. Nie tendrá que elegir: sacrificar al hombre que ama o romper definitivamente con la "Secta de los Asesinos”.

La película cuenta la historia de tres mujeres cosmopolitas (una actriz, una experta en relaciones públicas y la encargada de una galería de arte), todas ellas con altibajos en sus relaciones sentimentales.

Jin Ying is currently experiencing two of life’s most depressing moments: She is jilted by her fiancé, and her loving grandmother passes away. Heartbroken, she decides to visit the European city of Prague, and hopes to use the time to heal her inner pain. While in Prague, she meets a young Chinese man named Punk. There, she slowly unravels a secret romance her grandmother once experienced long ago.

Huihua, a music school freshman, is raped by Professor Lee. She files a suit against him with the help of another professor, who involves his attorney friend, Fang Anyu. As the film focuses on the secondary abuse inflicted on Huihua, it narrows in on the characters’ inner lives. Why does Fang Anyu defend Huihua while his marriage crumbles? Why does attorney Lin so actively defend her husband? Above all, Huihua’s complex psyche is evident in the words, "I may have loved Professor Lee," changes the film into something beyond a simple courtroom drama.

Wax and his friends are the happiest kids in the city of Galilee. Living on the rooftops of this bustling metropolis, sometimes life can be tough, but they still churn out songs all day, and dance under the stars at night. But when Wax meets his dream girl, a billboard beauty named Starling, fate takes him on a wild ride through the high and low parts of the town he loves.

Michel Bouquet y Vincent Rottiers dan vida, respectivamente, al célebre pintor Auguste Renoir y a su hijo, el no menos célebre cineasta Jean Renoir. Ambientada en la Costa Azul, en 1915. Auguste Renoir, en el ocaso de su vida, está atormentado por la pérdida de su esposa, los dolores artríticos y la noticia de que su hijo ha sido herido en la guerra. Sin embargo, cuando una joven entra en su mundo, el pintor se siente dueño de una nueva energía. Radiante de vida, bellísima, Andrée se convertirá en su última modelo. Jean regresa a casa para reponerse y también cae bajo el encanto de la estrella pelirroja que brilla en el firmamento de Renoir. A pesar de la oposición de su padre, se enamora de la joven indomable y empieza a desarrollarse el gran cineasta.

Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.

A policeman, who is fearless to death, can do anything for just one truth, while a gangster, who fears death the most, has drew life threats from his risky action all for love. One policeman and one gangster can be great partners that you have never imagined. Somehow, rescue of the world now is entirely relying on the partners. Within 36 hours, they must resolve the crisis that could destroy the Harbor City...

Mural tells the story of Zhu Xiaolian, a poor scholar who travels to the capital to take an examination. During this trip, Zhu becomes distracted by a mural and enters into the fantasy land depicted therein. There he meets the fairies who inhabit this fantasy land and encounters love and hate.

Adaptación de la prestigiosa novela homónima de Murakami. La historia comienza cuando un hombre llamado Toru Watanabe escucha la canción de los Beatles "Norwegian Wood" mientras aterriza en el aeropuerto de Hamburgo, lo que le hace retroceder a su juventud y al turbulento Tokio de la década de los 60.

Set during the Second Sino-Japanese War(1937-1945), the US army brings supplies to China by flying over the Himalayas. A love story then ensues between an American pilot and a Tibetan girl who saved his life when his airplane crashed.

Famous from an incredibly young age, DMH (Wang Lee Hom) has only ever known a celebrity pop star existence. Yet, despite all the glamour, there is still something lacking in his charmed life - true love. With the help of fellow musician and friend WZB, DMH disguised himself as a regular Joe in the hope of finding true love. While incognito, DMH and WZB stumble across the performance of a classical Chinese orchestra and DMH is immediately captivated by the melodies of the guzheng soloist, LMQ (Crystal Liu Yi-Fei), a student at the Shanghai Conservatory, whose affections lie with the accomplished but arrogant virtuoso, ZXZ. In his attempt to spend more time with LQM, DMH promises to help LQM get together with ZXZ. As DMH and LQM grow closer, it becomes increasingly difficult to conceal his identity.

A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best. Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story of the same title (1922), Kawaguchi’s film moves the original early 20th-century Izu Peninsula to present-day Taiwan, where the strength of family ties is singularly put to the test. Yumiko (Machiko Ono), who married against her parents' wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since her husband’s death, moving her family from their Tokyo home to the verdant, rural Taiwan village of her in-laws. Her son Atsushi, strongly conscious that in ethnocentric Japan he is "different," is in a state of rebellion against both the society in which he has grown up and his mother. In their new home the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.

Focusing on Mark Lee Ping-bin, one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers in Asia, the movie details the itinerant lifestyle of a deeply observant and philosophical artist and the tolls that his profession takes on his family life.

Una muñeca hinchable de tamaño natural vive en un modesto piso de Tokio. Es la única compañía de su solitario amo, un hombre de mediana edad. Él le habla, la baña y le hace el amor cada día cuando vuelve del trabajo. Sin embargo, esta rutina se rompe cuando, de repente, la Muñeca Hinchable cobra vida y con ella un alma. Acaba de nacer y no entiende lo que ocurre a su alrededor, aunque se da cuenta de que existe otro mundo más allá de las paredes del piso. Cuando, por fin, se atreve a salir al mundo exterior, se siente fascinada por todo lo que ve. Conoce a mucha gente, pero nadie es capaz de explicarle qué significa "estar viva". Un día, entra en un videoclub y conoce a Junichi, el vendedor, del que se enamora inmediatamente...

A Hong Kong-set mystery centered on a detective who has been framed for a series of gruesome murders.

Pearl has quietly fallen in love with her boss Tom, who’s married with a family. Without warning, Tom asks Pearl to interview for another job. Wounded, Pearl demands that Tom terminate her. The gauntlet has been thrown down. In a space as small, crowded and claustrophobic as the office, love doesn’t grow - it incubates and breeds, like a virus.

Nathan (Romain Duris) es un brillante abogado de Nueva York cuyo éxito profesional contrasta con su problemática vida privada, que ha quedado marcada por su divorcio de Claire (Evangeline Lilly), su único amor. En medio de su pesar conoce al doctor Kay (John Malkovich), un misterioso médico que le asegura que tiene facultades para percibir la proximidad de la muerte. Esta afirmación se verá reforzada a medida que Nathan le vaya revelando episodios de su pasado: por ejemplo, cuando tenía sólo ocho años, se zambulló en agua helada para salvar a una niña y sufrió un paro cardíaco que le provocó una breve muerte clínica.

Película formada por cortometrajes de reconocidos directores y actores, siguiendo la línea de "Paris, je t'aime", narrando historias de amor en la ciudad de Nueva York.

A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.

Ye Xiang Lun is a music student majoring in piano who just transferred to Tamkang, a school famous for its musically talented students, especially those who play piano. On his first day of school, he hears a mysterious melody being played, and following it meets Lu Xiao Yu, another piano major. When he asks her about the song she was playing, she tells him that it is a secret that cannot be told. The two form a friendship that quickly evolves into a romantic relationship. However unbeknownst to Xiang Lun, there is more to Xiao Yu than initially meets the eye.

Suzanne es una madre separada que trabaja de narradora en un espectáculo de marionetas. Como dispone de poco tiempo para estar con su hijo Simón, contrata como niñera a Song Fang, una estudiante taiwanesa. Pronto entre ellos dos se establece un mundo propio y lleno de complicidades, en el que juega un papel importante un misterioso globo rojo.

A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jin is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mother, while Mi is the more sedate and level-headed of the couple.

A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.

After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.

Japón, siglo XIX. Kiyoaki es un joven intrépido, hijo de un "nuevo rico". Kiyoaki pronto se enamorará de Satoko, hija de una familia aristocrática aunque este no se decide a declarar su amor oficialmente, por lo que la familia de Satoko concertará su matrimonio con el hijo del emperador. La película está basada en una novela de Yukio Mishima, considerado uno de los autores más importantes de Japón. (FILMAFFINITY)

Tres épocas (1966, 1911, 2005) y tres historias, interpretadas por la misma pareja de actores, Shu Qi y Chang Chen. Un cuento sentimental que evoca la triple reencarnación de un amor infinito.

Pekín, 1948. Una cruda noche de invierno, un hombre vuelve a casa atravesando una ciudad destrozada por la guerra. Allí le espera una carta escrita por una mujer antes de morir. En ella le habla de la historia de su amor por él, una pasión que ha durado toda una vida y que no ha disminuido con el tiempo, pero de la que él nunca ha sabido nada.

Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father and stepmother or Hajime, the owner of a small bookstore who could be the father of her unborn child. Yoko seems most at home when she's riding the train, speeding around the city with only her thoughts to entertain her.

When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.

In December of 1937 two young girls aged 9 and 4, May and August, lived blissfully with their parents in Nanjing. Unfortunately, the outbreak of the war totally changed their lives. May's parents were killed by the Japanese soldiers, and the girls taken to a refugee camp. Once May's uncle learned of the tragedy, he retrieved the two girls from the camp. But when the Japanese invaders took full control of the city, May and August would then have to learn to be strong to face all the upcoming challenges.

Después de un largo y duro verano, llega la primavera a un pequeño pueblo del sur de China. Es el año 1946 y el espíritu de la guerra está patente. En la casa de la bien situada familia Dai, la vida transcurre plácidamente hasta que aparece Zhang Zhichen, un conocido amigo de la familia que llega para remover sentimientos enterrados de lujuria y pasión, cuestionando el significado de la amistad, el honor y la confianza... con resultados impredecibles.

The newlyweds Jack and Ching move into a new apartment. Jack gets smacked by a car and goes into a coma, but a miraculous recovery occurs. Jack begins having visions of death around the house and he finds Ching has begun to act strangely. Jack relays his suspicions to Ching, but she thinks he might be "troubled". September, an female friend of Jack's, joins him on a fact-finding hunt. What they find isn't too comforting, as it seems that Ching may have more than a few secrets from her new husband

Joker is a computer programmer working on a 3-D adventure game starring a virtual idol. Stuck for inspiration, he ends up finding it in Ling, a bartender at a dance club. While in a drug-induced stupor, Joker imagines Ling to be the perfect image of his virtual girl. He's immediately smitten, but more important, he now has a model for his virtual heroine: Princess D.

Vicky es una joven con el corazón dividido entre dos hombres, Hao-hao y Jack. Por las noches, trabaja como relaciones públicas en una discoteca para ayudar a ambos. Hao-hao la vigila constantemente: controla las cuentas, las facturas de teléfono, los mensajes de su móvil e incluso su olor, para descubrir lo que ha hecho en su ausencia. Ella ya no le puede soportar y huye, pero Hao-hao la encuentra y le pide que vuelva. Entre tanto, Jack invierte en diferentes negocios; su manía de recibir con los brazos abiertos a todos los que necesitan ayuda, le causa algún problema que otro. Vicky ya se ha refugiado dos veces en su casa. Se establece entre ellos una relación más íntima, que podría conducir a una relación más estrecha o a una sólida amistad.

Based on a true story, Xiao Fu was contracted HIV virus through blood transmission due to hemophilia. He made his difference by writing a book before his death to change the public's view toward patients with HIV.

Hong Kong, 1962. Chow, redactor jefe de un diario local, se muda con su mujer a un edificio habitado principalmente por gentes de Shanghai. Allí conoce a Li-zhen, una joven que acaba de instalarse en el mismo edificio con su esposo. Ella es secretaria de una empresa de exportación y su marido está continuamente de viaje de negocios. Como la mujer de Chow también está casi siempre fuera de casa, Li-zhen y Chow pasan cada vez más tiempo juntos y se hacen muy amigos. Un día, ambos descubrirán que sus respectivos cónyuges los están traicionando.

La joven Lien, de 23 años, trabaja en el bar de su hermana mayor y comparte piso con su hermano mayor. Todos ellos se reunirán con la hermana mediana en el aniversario de la muerte de su madre. La complicidad entre las tres hermanas les lleva a compartir fantasías, temores y dudas, pero cada una de ellas guarda un secreto sobre sus sentimientos más íntimos, que terminarán por revelar.

A female director decides to make a autobiographical film on her love life and we see it through the use of flashbacks and brilliant intercutting.

Filme centrado en las relaciones entre cortesanas y hombres poderosos en el marco de suntuosos burdeles de Shanghai en 1880.

In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.

Lin es un policía de civil en el distrito del crimen a balazos de Mongkok, que echa a perder una operación dirigida a vice prostitues continente. Se enamora de una prostituta ditsy que le dice al amor de su vida es un asesino que una vez svaed su vida en un tiroteo. pepecine.net

14 vignettes without dialogue.

When a military contingent of "mythic" Americans arrive for war games in a little farming village in South Taiwan in the late 1960s, a veritable flood of hilarious cultural and linguistic misunderstandings is loosed on both sides.

In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which promise to get the gang nowhere fast.

Leon Lai es un asesino a sueldo cansado de su trabajo que se plantea dejarlo. Michelle Reis es una prostituta que, además de buscarles los encargos, le hace el trabajo sucio a Leon. Pero ella vive apasionadamente enamorado de él, aunque nunca se hayan conocido en persona. Lai conocerá a una mujer, Karen Mok, con la que comenzará una relación. Ésta, con el tiempo, coincidirá con Reis y les preparará una cita en la que Lai le confesará sus deseos de retirarse. Reis, sintiéndose rechazada, le preparará un ultimo trabajo. Intercalándose con esta historia nos encontramos con un joven mudo, Takeshi Kaneshiro, que viviendo con su padre tiene una difícil existencia debida a su deficiencia física. Sus días transcurren entre los dispares trabajos nocturnos y servir de consuelo a una joven engañada por su novio...

Tells the story of the relationship between a widower with Alzheimer's disease and his daughter-in-law, May Sun, who is a housewife in her forties trying cope with the upheavals in her family.

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.

El experto en artes marciales Wing Chun lucha contra bandidos en esta película mágica que proporciona tanto risas como golpes. Además de los ladrones de caballos, Wing Chun debe lidiar con los hombres que la rodean que simplemente no pueden con una mujer fuerte e independiente. En última instancia, debe repartir "lecciones" una y otra y otra vez hasta que finalmente se gane el respeto por sus notables habilidades.

Un famoso maestro de marionetas oriental narra la historia de su vida.

El heroe cantones Fong Sai Yuk se ve involucrado con una hermandad llamada "la flor roja" . Esta sociedad esta intentando derrocar al emperador manchu para asi reestablecer la dinastia Ming, nuestro heroe se vera envuelto en esta intriga y debera resolver a su vez lios amorosos.

A special police unit of women fights drug smugglers from Asia to New York. A trio of globe-trotting women led by the glamorous Tie Hua spread mayhem and beauty as they search for the cold-hearted international drug lord Hong Gang. In their wake, they leave a string of broken hearts -- and a trail of broken bones. Sibelle Hu, Alan Lan, Sherry Han, Cindy Mong and Michael Despasquale Jr. co-star in this martial arts action adventure filmed in the style of Charlie's Angels.

Manfred Wong spins this period tale about the life of imperial eunuch Lau Lou-hay, after the emperor was forced out of the Forbidden City. After saving the life of anti-imperial soldier Wu Chung (Felix Wong Yat-wah), Lau (Max Mok Siu-chung) agrees to help him capture the imperial seal, the symbol of political legitimacy in China at that time. Though both manage to cozy up to General Cheung (Kent Cheng Chuk-see), the guardian of the seal, their plan eventually fails. Wu helps Lau flee from Cheung's clutches and, upon learning that he is a eunuch, makes the lad his 13th wife. At the Wu estate, Lau is forced to deal with more than his share of political intrigue, particularly in dealing with Tak Cheung (Norman Law Man), the lead eunuch in the household.

Jen, nicknamed Ah Dai, had been a rebellious child. He fled home the age of 16. A few years later, he became the driver of the leader of the Underworld, Mr. Lin. He was deeply moved by the kindness and care Mr. & Mrs. Lin showed him, grateful enough to do anything for them in return. Ah Dai observed the conflicts and struggle for privileges in the Underworld, and its strange interactions with the police.

A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai.

El duro ex-policía Alan, y la abogada Mary, acusada de asesinato, unen sus fuerzas con el abogado sin escrúpulos David en el intento de destapar una trama de blanqueo de dinero. David parece estar involucrado en la trama, pero ha sido traicionado por su socio Wilson. Ahora, Alan, Mary y David tienen que unir sus fuerzas para sobrevivir a Wilson y sus secuaces. (FILMAFFINITY)

Ku Ah-ming is a 4th grader at Chungshan Elementary School in Shuiyu Township, Taiwan. Despite being not very good in most subjects at school, he is very talented in art and has a great imagination, though most teachers don't know what he's expressing in his artwork.

The pressures of the gang-ridden Hong Kong streets threaten to tear two teenage friends apart. A provocative look at misunderstood youth and juvenile delinquency on the urban streets of Hong Kong.

Before he was crowned one of the "Four Heavenly Kings", Andy Lau starred in the 1989 gangster film Runaway Blues. He plays Lam, a Taiwan gangster who flees to Hong Kong after killing a rival gangster. Hiding at his uncle gang boss Lip's place, he gets embroiled in more gang conflicts and is forced to be an informant for the police. Lam runs away to Guangzhou and Macau with Lip's mistress, causing an enraged Lip to be hot on his trail.

When Lee Sam, a ten-year veteran of the Hong Kong underworld, is released from prison, he dispatches two enemies and goes into hiding in Taipei where his old friend Billy is a boss. Billy is a hothead whose rivalries with other gangs put Sam at risk. After bailing Billy out a couple of times, Sam tries to get out of the Mob life. He retires to the coastal town of Tainam, works as a fishmonger, and falls in love with the sister of Crow, a 20-year-old who wants to work for Billy. Can Sam quit violence for good, start a family, and protect Crow?

The story of how a high school teacher overcomes all the problems and difficulties with problem students as well as other unfavorable circumstances in his teaching.

During the last years of Japanese occupation in Taiwan, as tenants from the preceding generation, the family of Chan brothers was suffering from poor harvest. With a deaf old mother, a mental disordered sister whose husband was killed in war, and a bunch of children, it was not hard to imagine that they were really poor. One day, a heavy unexploded bomb fell down from the sky on two brothers' farmland. The brothers brought the bomb to the Japanese police as a "gift for the Emperor of Japan". Unfortunately, the Japanese were frightened by the bomb and order them to throw it into the sea. They could do nothing but obeyed the order. The bomb exploded when thrown into the sea. A great number of dead fishes came out of the sea. The two brothers collected the fishes back home. When they saw their exciting family enjoy the fishes, they felt that God is fair.

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.

Film sobre la infancia y la adolescencia, muy influida por la propia niñez del director. Como muchos de sus compatriotas, la familia de Hou se trasladó del continente a Taiwán en 1948 y fue incapaz de volver. La película se centra en el cada vez mayor salto generacional de una familia separada de su herencia cultural.

Kidnapped by a group of bandits and raped by their chief, Dan Zhu slowly develops feelings for the perpetrator. Echoing the social realism of Taiwanese new wave filmmaking, director Wang Tung revisits the wuxia genre, with the emphasis on psychology rather than action.

Zang Guang-xing is a veteran soldier from Mainland China who married a young Taiwanese woman. He has been working as a supervisor in a construction company for seven years. Everyday he rides the same motorbike to work. He suffers enough misery from riding that motorbike, and dreams of buying a car. So he asks around for decent second-hand cars. His son doesn't like any car he chooses. His wife, a typical Taiwanese woman who lives frugally, shaves any penny she can. She is the one who pays for the family's new car. They go out on trips happily, and become the envy of the neighborhood. Zhang thus gets the new car he's always dreamed of, but he starts to worry about it getting dirty, because it's simply too new, too nice for him. The car thus becomes his son's vehicle. He rides the old bike to work again, just like he has during all these years.

A young male student develops a very close relationship with a teacher when both outsiders become ostracized from their town.