Chu Tien-wen

“I Remember” tells the story of sister writers Chu Tien-wen and Chu Tien-xin, from co-founding the San-san magazine to their respective creative and political efforts up to the present.

Chu Tien-Wen, frequent screenwriter for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, makes her directorial debut with this entry in The Inspired Island documentary series. With Hou as producer, cinematographer Yao Hung-I and editor Liao ChingSung, Chu takes a deep dive into the story of her parents, famed authors Chu Hsi-Ning and Liu Mu-Sha. Through family albums, old letters and interviews with fellow writers, Chu crafts a deeply personal portrait of her parents’ romance, literary careers, family roots and the unfinished opus her father left behind.

Chu Tien-Wen, frequent screenwriter for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, makes her directorial debut with this entry in The Inspired Island documentary series. With Hou as producer, cinematographer Yao Hung-I and editor Liao ChingSung, Chu takes a deep dive into the story of her parents, famed authors Chu Hsi-Ning and Liu Mu-Sha. Through family albums, old letters and interviews with fellow writers, Chu crafts a deeply personal portrait of her parents’ romance, literary careers, family roots and the unfinished opus her father left behind.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, directed by Olivier Assayas.

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

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.

Una joven actriz, Liang Ching, es perseguida por un hombre anónimo que le llama repetidamente, aunque después no habla. Él ha robado su diario, y le manda por fax sus páginas a diario. Al mismo tiempo, Liang ensaya para una película de rodaje inminente.

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

Las tribulaciones de una familia en Taiwán -el padre y sus cuatro hijos-, tras la violenta represión china acontecida en febrero de 1947. Primera parte de la trilogía de la historia de Taiwan realizada por Hsiao-hsien Hou. Las siguientes entregas serían "The Puppetmaster" (1993) y "Good Men, Good Women" (1995).

Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.

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.

This is a story located in a small town in Taiwan during the 50's and 60's. Mei-Hsia is from the most prominent family in town. Yun-Lang works in the local peasant assocation. They like each other, but Mei-Hsia is afraid to tell her mother about their seeing each other. They wait till Yun-Lang sends a matchmaker to Mei-Hsia's family. There was no way that Mei-Hsia's family would agree to their marriage. Mei-Hsia's parents send her to a relative in the northeast of Keelung, in an attempt to stop them from seeing each other, but Yun-Lang follows her there. Mei-Hsia's relative doesn't stop them until Mei-Hsia's mother finds out. Now their love is an open affair. This time, it's the Mei-Hsias turn to propose a marriage between the two families. To everyone's surprise, the Yun-Langs turn it down. Mei-Hsia and Yun-Lang planned to elope, but they failed. She kills herself. At last, Yun-Lang can call Mei-Hsia his wife by marring her memorial tablet.

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.

Bi Bao-Liang is a 29 year-old man who believes that he will have bad luck if he touches a woman before he turns thirty. Liu Xiang-mei is a beautiful woman who had a love affair with her married boss, and now she is pregnant. In order to give her child a family name, she decides to find a man to have a one-year marriage contract. Bi Bao-Liang is the perfect man she is looking for because he is afraid of women. However, their marriage does not follow what they've planned...

Debido a la imposibilidad de ascender laboralmente, Chin decide buscar otro trabajo. Su ambición contrasta con la de su pareja, un comerciante cuya única pasión es el béisbol y quizá también una antigua novia, con la que se ha vuelto a encontrar en un viaje de negocios en Tokio.

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

A boy fell in love with a girl, then the girl left. Years later, the boy found that he is a father now.

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.

The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, to a stable adult.

Taking place in modern-day Taipei, Hou Hsiao-Hsien focuses on a lonely river goddess whose waterways have now been covered by modern roadways.