Liao Pen-Jung

An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman join her search.

Ye Nan, a mother belonging to the Dai minority, comes back to her village after living in the city. She wants to take care of the 13-year-old daughter she'd left behind, but the road to rebuilding their relationship is full of obstacles. One day her daughter is arrested for stealing money from the village's most sacred temple with her friend. Since people think the girls are possessed by the devil, they decide to save them by worshipping a stone Buddha in a 250-million-year-old karst cave during the Water-Sprinkling Festival.

A property assistant, an intern, a broke greengrocer and casino keeper, a gun in the black suitcase and a celebrity goat all take part in a play within a play. There's a lot going in at the inn. Not only a film crew checked in, somebody also wants to settle a score.

In 2015, Tsai Ming-Liang was once again invited by the Hong Kong International Film Festival to make the opening short film. This time, he selected Shibuya station in Tokyo as his main filming location and invited the famous Japanese actor Masanobu Ando to appear alongside Lee Kang-Sheng. They sleep separately at a capsule hotel and cleanse themselves at a public bath. Their fatigued bodies yearn for sleep but restless minds keep them for falling asleep. "No No Sleep" won the Best Director Award at the Taipei Film Festival.

Harto del ajetreo de la vida moderna y del estrés continuo, un hombre de familia decide cambiar radicalmente de hogar y de estilo de vida. Su vida debe dar un vuelco y siente que la única manera de poder educar a sus dos hijos cómo a él le gustaría es llevarlos al corazón de Taipei.

In 2013, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui to make a short film for an anthology film, "Letters from the South". Tsai Ming-Liang returned to his hometown in Kuching, Malaysia and made a "Walker" film at his childhood home, "Walking on Water". The seven-storey flat which contained the happy memories of his childhood is now occupied by strangers. His old neighbour, an older girl who used to bathe and feed him when he was a child, has also grown old.

In 2011, Tsai Ming-Liang staged a play, "Only You", for Taiwan's National Theater and Concert Hall. In it, there was a powerfully moving scene where monk Xuanzang walked at an extremely slow pace for half an hour. Lamenting the transient nature of theater, Tsai decided to make a movie out of this slow-walking performance, "No Form", the first of his "Walker Films" series.

Un director taiwanés (Kang-sheng) prepara en París una delirante adaptación de la espeluznante historia de Salomé (Laetitia Casta), la hijastra de Herodes que exigió la cabeza de Juan el Bautista (Léaud). Ardant interpreta a la productora del proyecto, y Moreau es la musa inspiradora que aparece en sus sueños.

Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a suicide helpline.

To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival invited around thirty filmmakers to create three-minute short films to compose the collective film Chacun son cinema. Tsai Ming-liang proposed a twinned piece with his feature Goodbye, Dragon Inn, an exploration of the movie theater as a public space and collective experience. Shortly after, Tsai put on this new version of the piece, twenty minutes longer, which was presented at the Venice Biennale.

Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.

City-slicker DJ Li Tong Zhe (Darren Chiu) heads to the mountain regions of central Taiwan to record sounds for a 921 earthquake memorial segment. Staying with a teacher in a Bunun village, he finds himself worlds away from the life he knows in Taipei. Tong Zhe meets A-Bu, a 10-year-old boy who lost his eyesight after the earthquake and keeps himself shut away from other people. A-Bu’s teacher Zu Wei (Janine Chang) is teaching him folk songs, hoping that music will open his voice and heart. While helping A-Bu and Zu Wei, Tong Zhe realizes what has been missing from his own life.

En un tiempo de fuerte escasez de agua, los espacios televisivos se dedican a instruir acerca de los diversos métodos para ahorrarla al tiempo que promueven la ingestión de zumo de sandía en su lugar. Sin embargo, todo el mundo tiene sus propias soluciones cuando se trata de encontrar agua. Shiang-Chyi coge botellas vacías y las llena con agua robada de los aseos públicos; mientras tanto, Hsiao-Kang, ahora actor pornográfico, trepa al tejado en plena noche para bañarse con el agua que pueda lograr en los depósitos. La supervivencia es dura, pero todavía lo es más soportar la soledad. Cada uno de nosotros es una nube silente, que pende solitaria sin jamás tocar a los otros. Cierto día, Shiang-Chyi halla una sandía y más tarde se encuentra a Hsiao-Kang en el parque. Ella recuerda que le había comprado un reloj de pulsera. No le había visto desde aquella transacción, y se pregunta qué está haciendo en su inmueble. Se enamoran. Francia Taiwan

La película tiene lugar en un viejo cine de Taipei en el que se va a proyectar la épica película de artes marciales de 1967 dirigida por King Hu, Dragon Inn. No será una proyección más, será la última antes de que se cierren sus puertas para siempre.

A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.

A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.

Quedan siete días para el siglo XXI: En algún sitio de Taiwán la lluvia no para de caer; una misteriosa enfermedad alcanza dimensiones insospechadas y el gobierno decreta una cuarentena, ordenando a la gente que abandone el lugar, pero algunos no desean hacerlo. En un edificio, un hombre se despierta al oír el timbre de su puerta; es un fontanero que va a arreglar una gotera; pero en vez de resolver el problema, hace un agujero de considerables dimensiones, algo que aprovecha para conocer mejor a su vecina de abajo, una mujer que sueña que canta y baila en los brazos de alguien...

Retrato de tres personajes víctimas de la soledad y la incomunicación: un joven con dolor en el cuello, un hombre que frecuenta saunas gays, y una mujer ascensorista, cuyo amante trafica con películas pornográficas.

Young boy, Ah-Jiang, a school failure and day dreamer witnesses the kidnapping of a child. After being taken hostage by a corrupt family, he begins an unusual adventure away from home.

Una joven pareja, May y Ah-jong, utiliza un apartamento para sus relaciones. Sin embargo, una tercera persona, un tímido homosexual escondido en el mismo apartamento les espía creando un triangulo bizarro de amor.

El joven Hsiao Kang, excéntrico e introvertido, abandona la aldea donde vive con sus padres y se traslada a la deslumbrante Taipei. Allí se ve arrastrado a la vida en las calles de la ciudad y sus salas de máquinas. Muy pronto su vagabundeo le hará encontrarse por azar con Ah Tze, un joven delincuente que corteja a la bella Ah Kuei, que trabaja en la sala de patinaje sobre hielo. Hsiao Kang verá su vida perversa e indisolublemente ligada a la de Ah Tze y su novia Ah Kuei, a los que acechará desde las sombras.

"Door Latch" and his friend followed the KMT army and moved to Taiwan in 1949. They conceal their real name and get many trials and afflictions to adapt the circumstances in that special situation. Yueh-Shiang is a classic traditional woman from China country. For requiting the graciousness of being saved by Door Latch, she becomes Door Latch's wife. She suffers hardship to raise and teach their children without any complains. Door Latch wasn't well educated and can hardly read. However, he uses Yueh-Shiang's late husband's name and diploma to get himself a job. Even though there are a lot of embarrassing situations and he suffers many difficulties, Door Latch survives. Door Latch also looks after his old pal Lee Der-Sherng when Lee loses his mind. However, the KMT government released the restriction to visit Mainland China. They are able to visit their parents and relatives there. Their son finds "their" parents, but bigger secrets will unfold.

After a devastating artillery attack on the island of Kinmen, commander Chi Liang-chen and his battery prepare a counter-attack.

Financial woes causes a young woman to turn to the oldest profession for work. Her sacrificial deeds to raise her siblings are left unappreciated by her younger sister.

A new secretary for the Hsiao family met an office boy on her first day at work. She was puzzled when he asked if she would marry into Hsiao family. Upon understanding the fact that all the Hsiao secretaries had married the Hsiao sons, she assertively assured that she would not follow the trend, they started dating and soon fall in love. Then one day an angry man stormed into the office and revealed the true identity of the office boy. He was actually the youngest son of the Hsiao family…

An old granny missed her beloved grand-daughter who was away in America for many years. Little did she know that her grand-daughter had met a mishap and died long ago. In view not to hurt the old granny, her grandson found a girl who was his sister look-a-like to feign her...

A pretty nurse falls for her wheelchair-bound patient, and love triumphs over a series of misunderstandings caused by jealousy.