Lo's mother
There is a another soul living in CaCa's body. Just as she decides to come clean with her biological gender, her boyfriend proposes to her. Should she confess, at the risk of losing all the happiness she ever had, or should she keep things the way they are? A phone call then takes her back to her hometown which she had long left behind, where her sister needs her to take care of their mother who is mentally ill.
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.
Tsai Yu-chien
Chun, 28, Taiwanese, goes on a conflict-packed search journey with her Chinese guide, Ming, to find her father's long-lost first love, XiuQian, in China. Chun's father had promised XiuQian 60 years ago that he'd definitely come back to marry her. But not until recently, Taiwan and China were hostile to each other, he was never able to fulfill his promise. Chun and Ming grew up on two sides of the Taiwan Strait and were brought up with different values. They don't hesitate to cut each other down to size. Their turbulent romance unfolds in tears, laughter and a clash of values. The love story of two generations, across the Taiwan Strait, told with touching drama and biting comedy, is a poignant and entertaining road movie.
A professional hit-man is hired to take out a target -- however, his girlfriend’s pregnancy gives him second thoughts. He decides that after this job, he will renounce his profession and turn himself in. This is the first feature film from Taiwanese director Alex Yang, who participated in script-writing and production on Edward Yang's early films. "The Trigger" has echoes of Yang's "Mahjong." The actors in the film, except for veteran Ngai Man-Yin, are all new faces -- unfortunately, Ngai's death in 2005 also made "The Trigger" his last appearance on screen.
Sherry
8살 소년 양양은 아빠 NJ로부터 카메라를 선물 받는다. 사람들이 보지 못하는 그들의 뒷모습을 찍는 양양. 양양의 사진 속에는 사업이 위기에 빠진 시기에 30년 전 첫사랑을 다시 만나게 된 아빠 NJ, 외할머니가 사고로 쓰러진 뒤 슬픔에 빠져 집을 떠나있게 된 엄마 민민, 외할머니의 사고가 자신 때문이라고 생각하는 누나 팅팅 그리고 저마다의 삶을 살아가는 사람들이 있다.
A story of a girl haunted by the ghost of her mother, after witnessing her murder.
Sister-in-law
51년간의 일본 통치에서 해방된 1945년부터 장개석의 국민당이 타이뻬이에 임시정부를 수립한 1949년까지 4년 동안을 임가네 4형제를 중심으로 다루었다. 1945년 일본이 패망하자 해방된 대만. 식당을 경영하는 임아록에게는 장사를 하는 문웅(잭카오), 일본 군의관으로 출정해 행방불명된 문상, 불량배가 된 문량, 청각장애를 가진 문청(양조위). 네 아들이 있다. 문청은 사진관을 경영하면서 지식인 청년 오관영과 함께 살고 있다. 관영과 그 친구들은 부패한 나라를 걱정하며 개혁운동을 고민하고 있다. 문청은 관영의 누이 관미와 사랑하는 사이가 된다. 그 사이 문량과 문웅은 상해에 본거지를 둔 범죄 조직의 유혹으로 배를 제공하고 밀수에 손을 댄다. 그러나 상해조직은 문량이 일본에 징용돼서 일했던 것을 빌미로 문량과 문웅을 전범으로 당국에 고발하고, 이권을 빼앗아 버린다. 문량은 곧 석방되지만, 폐인이 된다. 한편 2.28사건이 터지자 문청의 친구들은 체포되거나 실종되고, 문청도 옥살이를 한다. 옥에서 나온 문청은 관영의 정부 대항조직에 참여하려 하나 관영은 그에게 관미를 부탁한다. 이즈음 제일 큰형 문웅이 상해 조직과의 혈전에서 죽자 임씨 집안의 아들은 문청만 남게 된다. 결국 문청은 관미와 결혼식을 올리고 세월이 흘러 아들까지 낳는다. 그러나 문청도 역시 체포된다.
After her six year old son is kidnapped, a successful fashion designer must work with a detective to clear up the terrifying mystery and get her son back.
In 1949 when the Communist regime was established in China, the world-famed painter Ling Chen-kuang, believing his conviction for a new-born society had come true on his motherland, returned anxiously from the U.S., whither he had fled apprehension by lawmen when cracking down on rebellious activities he had actively engaged in out of cynicism and hostility – the feelings evolved from constant haunting by the memories of his childhood miserableness – to the then existing institutions in China. Alas, to his disillusion, the land he had so deeply loved, the society of which he had expected so much, should have turned out to be the hell on earth. Why? The enigma kept obsessing and puzzling him even to his dying moment.
