Kitamura Toyoharu

始まりは18年前の台湾―― 高校生・ジミーのバイト先に現れた日本から来た4つ年上のバックパッカー・アミ。ひと夏を同じ店で働き過ごすことになった2人だったが、次第にジミーはアミに淡い恋心を抱いていく。夜道をバイクで2人乗りしたり、映画を観に行ったり、2人の距離は縮まっていったが、突然、アミが日本に帰ることに。気持ちの整理がつかないジミーに、アミは“ひとつの約束”を提案する。 時が経ち、あるきっかけで久々に実家を訪れたジミーは、日本に戻ったアミから18年前に届いたハガキを見つける。 初恋の記憶がよみがえったジミーは、過去と向き合い、今を見つめるため、初めての日本での一人旅へ。アミとの思い出の曲を聞きながら列車に乗り、ジミーが向かうのは彼女の故郷。 ジミーはアミとの再会を果たせるのか―。

A loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a lusty gymnastics teacher, a geeky college student, a single father with his young daughter, a gay couple, a writer and a sexy female office worker. An incredible story is about to unfold as they start their lives in the same building.

A Japanese porno actor, HIV positive, commits suicide. Natsumi, a popular porno actress who has often worked with him, learns that she is also HIV positive and becomes desperate. She receives mysterious post cards at times from Taiwan, and decides to go to Taiwan to solve the mystery. The latest film by director PAN Chih-yuan of “The Touch of Fate”, which brought him multiple nominations at the Golden Horse Awards. LEE Kang Sheng, Golden Horse Awards’ Best Actor winner, plays the leading role. Co-star HATANO Yui gives a wonderful performance in her debut feature.

From the school of romanticised whimsy that Taiwan has perfected over the last few years comes this comedy set during 1960s heyday of Taiwanese language cinema. When her filmmaker grandfather, Liu Chi-Sheng, lands in hospital, 18-year-old Jie has him recount the love story between him and her grandmother, Chiang Mei-Yue, that happened during a visit of the film sets of Beitou. Told in sweetly campy cinema flashbacks and semi-animated inserts, Forever Love is a love letter to Taiwanese cinema as much as it is a romance for the ages.

Feature debut by notable film critic Wang Wei. The film takes Taipei’s trendy Ximending district, best known for its mix of alternative lifestyles, youth fashion and the antimony of adolescent life, and provides an upbeat story of damaged young people finding their purpose in life. The film’s upbeat tone may appeal to some, but the complexity of the background is obliterated by rom-com stereotypes.

The lives of five lost souls; an unassuming valet, a femme fatale, a mob boss looking for redemption, a foreigner with a painful past and a suicidal waitress, collide in one night of life-changing choices in this neo-noir offering.

A Japanese girl (Kato Youki) is on a three month visit in Taiwan after breaking up with her boyfriend to study Chinese at a language center. One day she has a brief affair with Wu and later he requests her to sign a contract to be his girlfriend for 90 days and she agrees. One of the condition of the contract is they must get separated after 90 days. However, after getting know each other quite well, both find that the relationship seems to be true love and both are unwilling to break the contract agreement as the dateline approaches. What is the outcome of their love story in the end?

Struggling to adjust to her new life in Taipei, introverted high school girl Miao Miao opens up after meeting outgoing classmate Xiao Ai who becomes increasingly enamoured with her new friend. Unaware of Xiao Ai's confused feelings for her, Miao Miao falls for brooding CD shop owner Chen Fei, who seems determined to block out the world with a pair of headphones.

Once upon the time on a small island named Taiwan, a neighborhood magistrate receives a secret message from space. 'The apocalypse is near...' the magistrate warns his people, however nobody seems to take his words seriously...