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The movie tells the story of a restaurant owner (played by Duan Yihong) who's chased after the murderer of his son for seven years. On the way, he met a young man (played by Shi Pengyuan) with a complicated background. Amidst suspicion and temptation, the relationship between the two began moving in an unexpected direction.
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총 길이 98.2킬로미터로 1992년 개통해, 대만 남부를 횡단하는 철도의 탄생부터 마지막 시기까지를 한편의 영화로 담았다. 이 철도와 관계한 구체적인 사람들을 직접 만나 그들의 입으로 기차의 역사를 다시 쓰는 데에 이 영화의 미덕이 있다. 기차 노선 설계자, 터널을 뚫고 철로를 낸 건설 노동자, 기관사와 승무원을 비롯한 철도 노동자들의 생생한 육성을 성실히 수집한다. 철도가 생기면서 달라진 주변 풍광을 증언하는 이들, 철로 주변에서 생계를 이어온 사람들, 기차 사진 전문가, 기차 연구자, 기차 부품 수집광의 이야기도 빼놓지 않는다.
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총 길이 98.2킬로미터로 1992년 개통해, 대만 남부를 횡단하는 철도의 탄생부터 마지막 시기까지를 한편의 영화로 담았다. 이 철도와 관계한 구체적인 사람들을 직접 만나 그들의 입으로 기차의 역사를 다시 쓰는 데에 이 영화의 미덕이 있다. 기차 노선 설계자, 터널을 뚫고 철로를 낸 건설 노동자, 기관사와 승무원을 비롯한 철도 노동자들의 생생한 육성을 성실히 수집한다. 철도가 생기면서 달라진 주변 풍광을 증언하는 이들, 철로 주변에서 생계를 이어온 사람들, 기차 사진 전문가, 기차 연구자, 기차 부품 수집광의 이야기도 빼놓지 않는다.
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The story is set in a small southern town at the beginning of the century, where people believed that innocence and hope would lead to a better tomorrow.
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With a week before final exams and summer vacation, a substitute teacher must prove himself worthy of rehiring.
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It tells the story of a mother’s desperation to locate her child when the abductor dies before her child can be located. With time running out, the child’s mother seeks the assistance of a spiritual medium.
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Turn Around is based on the story of Cheng-chung Wang, a passionate Taiwanese teacher who has won multiple educational awards. After graduating from the National Kaohsiung Normal University, he is assigned to teach at a school located at the rural Zhongliao in Nantou County, which is lacking in educational resources. As he is preparing to leave at the end of his assignment, the area is met with the deadly 921 earthquake. Seeing the students breaking down in tears and asking for his return, Wang decides to stay with the school to improve the education of the students.
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A rebellious teen is reunited with her father, a small time Taipei gangster, causing him to question his life of crime.
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A-Yan and Xiao-Yu are strangers, but they look just like twins. A-Yan is a country boy who comes to the big city for a better future. However, the girl whom he falls for cheats him out of the insurance payout he has got from his grandmother’s illness. Xiao-Yu who owns a talent agency betrays his business partner. As a result of an attempted kidnap, their lives are entwined with each other.
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30 years after the Taiwanese New Wave first emerged, the veterans such as Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang remain active in their careers. Ten of Edward Yang's former assistants have become directors. The filmmakers of the younger generation are facing a Taiwanese audience hungry for films that link them with Taiwanese society, whether they are fictional or not.
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A violin teacher from a working-class background embarks on a brave journey in search of true love. The absurd process gradually makes her realize that returning to her true self is the only shortcut to happiness.
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Mei falls for an underachieving boxer, and begins years of soul searching in the city, where she reunites with her estranged brother under unexpected circumstances. What was remembered and forgotten are lessons that have profound consequences.
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The disappearance of three teddy bears brings eight lonely hearts together. Tiring of serving people, Peter, a tour guide, brings Teddy Bears that are considered as families or pets to their owners to travel abroad. On his way to pick up a Teddy Bear, a car accident happens. All 3 Bears are missing. To stall for time and money, Peter needs to figure out how to continue this unusual trip right away...
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In the not-too distant future, 17 year-old Tye and his family move to the burgeoning metropolis of Real City, where, bored with classes, he spends his time daydreaming until one day he finds a magic stone that allows him to pass through walls. On a field trip to a museum, Tye meets NoNo, a deaf girl with bionic ears who is working as a museum docent. The two grow closer, until Tye discovers she has a boyfriend and demands she chooses between them. NoNo tells him to come and see her again in twenty years and then disappears from his life, leaving him only with a photo of her in front of a signpost saying Elsewhere. Tye uses the magic stone to go to Elsewhere, but he discovers a desolate world full of discarded things, among them an attractive blind girl, Ya-hung. Two worlds, two realities, two girls, what will Tye’s choice be ?
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Ming-Hsang, a deaf college student, meets interesting people as he cycles around Taiwan before he graduates from college.
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Do Over follows five characters over twenty four hours on the last day of the year. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. By depicting five different characters at emotional crossroads, Do Over examines the struggle of overcoming our greatest fears; the unknown of what lies ahead in the future, the fading value of our existence in the present, and most of all, irreversible mistakes made in the past that may catch up to us.
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Lanyu - Orchid Island, is a small tropical island where its aboriginals take preys on the flying fish, a symbol of bliss and abundance, to make their living. Three young men Behong, Jeddah and Qingkuang known on the island as the "Three Musketeers" for their life long friendship and strong bond are enjoying their little piece of tranquility.One summer day, a beautiful young woman named Zing arrives in this small island from Taipei. She is on a business trip to survey remote regions for cellular coverage and will inadvertently change the Three Musketeers lives and hers as well…
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Between 1979 and 1983, 117 violent and gritty social realist pictures were produced in Taiwan. Many of these found their way around the world courtesy of Hong Kong's IFD films.
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Stone Dream records the daily life of Liu and his family and, by means of interviews with the protagonist and his neighbours, describes the complex ethnic relationships in Taiwan, where many Chinese live who have started families with native Taiwanese. The stones from the title are the rocks from the river that sometimes, in their polished form, display beautiful landscapes, as a symbol of inner beauty. When his wife dies, the now elderly Liu wants to return to his fatherland, but at the same time he realises that he will no longer feel at home there. He has become too strongly attached to his new fatherland Taiwan, where his son and grandson were born.
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Fantasies, dreams, tears, and fears of four women chasing and watching each other in post-colonial Hong Kong. They chase, seduce, resist, and fantasize about each other. A Hong Kong that is as fake as real provides the perfect setting for their games, secrets, screams and tears. “Made-in-China Chan” (in Cantonese: Chan Kwok Chan) works as a stripper in cyberspace, but she often has headaches. Her only solace is from a Mainlander migrant who echoes what Chan does but with a better attitude. Nicole has money and power but she depends on “Made-in-China” to play with virtually at night in order to get some sleep. Zero does not have anything, but she knows what she wants and is determined to get it. Four women meet in a Hong Kong somewhere in the future. How do their desires manifest themselves in this Forbidden City? From totally different backgrounds, they look like they have very different problems, but do they?
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Man-Li always lives in the normal track as everybody considers. After graduating from school to society, she keeps each job with caution and fear. Unless she finds a new job, she won’t quit the current one easily. This time is quite different. She resigned and had no idea what to do next. She just thought to make a change of her lifestyle. However, what will it look like? She doesn’t know either. Her boyfriend proposed the thought of getting married. She doesn’t feel like working but it doesn’t necessarily mean that she has to choose marriage. All of this is because of the space she longs for. On the contrary, she doesn’t know what to do. Only she can do is in a daze!Waves kept patting the seashore of the night dream……a feeling was gradually brewed, swelled, unlimitedly developed and grew in strength! What does the voice of waves in the dream draw on earth?
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The film has four main-storylines. A shoe store girl who likes Tony Leung, a couple who is suffering from cockroaches and is looking for a new apartment, a salesperson who is worried about his ex-wife, and a young actor from a small theater group who is afraid of being seen naked by his mother.
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1930년대 중국. 극장주의 딸인 잉거와 미국에서 온 그녀의 약혼자 샤오둥, 그리고 경극배우의 스타 린청은 이제 막 만났다. 금융을 배우러 갔다가 첼리스트가 되어 돌아온 샤오둥은 오랫동안 편지를 주고받았던, 그러나 처음 만나는 잉거가 낯설지가 않지만 린청의 노래를 듣고는 순식간에 매혹당한다. 사랑과 우정이 엇갈린 상태로 엮인 것이다.
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After falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he can in order to see her again.
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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.
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방학이 되자 17살 캉이는 칼룽의 집으로 온다. 캉이의 아버지 아 시우는 교통사고로 아내와 자신의 시력을 잃었다. 아 시우는 새 아내 바오 후이와 마사지실을 운영하며, 캉이와 그녀의 저능아 남동생 아키를 부양하고 있다. 18살 아핑은 아버지와 아 시우의 오랜 친구이자 지역조직의 보스인 송에게 맡겨진다. 캉이와 아핑은 서로에게 이끌리고, 캉이를 좋아하는 라이벌조직 보스의 양자 아림은 이에 분노하여 조직간의 싸움을 촉발한다.
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Taipei, 1990s. Pizza boy JJ bumps one day into his ex-girlfriend Pony who is now pursuing a lesbian relationship with Mimi. On his first visit to the girl JJ gives in to Pony's seduction and makes love to her in the presence of Mimi who is seemingly asleep... Pony is now enjoying the secret excitement of her affair with JJ while Mimi tries hard to put up with it. But as days go by, JJ finds himself more and more obsessed with Mimi. At this stage none of the three is sure of what they want from love...
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A-Wu (Nicky Wu) is a high school dropout who uses tricks to get food and sympathy from others. He's destined for life in the streets, until he met Chichi (Vivian Hsu), an up-and-coming actress, who gives him hope and motivation to change the past and clean up his act. With Christmas around the corner, will romance be far behind for them?
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The lives of two young thieves, a mob hitman and a film producer are entangled when the two thieves steal a car that had already been previously stolen to been used as a getaway car.
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Taiwanese action film.
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'Such a Life' is quite a sad film. It is set in the sixties, in a village on the west coast of Taiwan, where many are succumbing to 'black foot', a disease caused by drinking contaminated well water. The only 'cure' is to amputate the afflicted limb, and to avoid drinking the contaminated water. Many in the village were already sick, and few could afford to have tap-water installed. At the center of the story is Ah Chung, who lives with his grandfather, who has already lost one leg to 'black foot'. In the same village also live an opera family, who are finding things increasingly difficult there, an oyster farmer, who complains that his oysters are being poisoned by a nearby pharmaceutical plant, and an assortment of children who enjoy swimming in the sea, and who bully Ah Chung. A significant portion of the action also takes place in the village school, where Ah Chung is having trouble keeping up with the fees.
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A group of young ninjas enters a ninja school where they encounter a cast of eccentric teachers and learn various bizarre ninja techniques. However, amidst their hilarious adventure and blossoming young love, there are dark forces that threaten their school. The ninja kids must learn how to fend themselves and their school.
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Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival.
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With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, his third film in two years. As with A Drifting Life and Murmur of Youth, Lin’s new film delicately unfolds, gradually building to a climax of stunning emotional reverberations. Drawn from a particularly painful episode in the director’s past, Sweet Degeneration delves into the uneasy bonds a brother and sister have with each other and the people around them.
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Taiwanese military comedy film.
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현대 도시인들의 처지와 시대에 대한 묘사를 통해 스스로 무엇을 원하는지도 알지 못하고 살아가는 사람들의 비애를 보여준다. 국제적인 도시로 성장한 타이페이를 배경으로, 다국적 기업을 통해 외국인들의 진입이 증가하고 있는 타이페이의 정체성에 대해 질문한다.
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Taiwanese crime film.
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A high school student and a pop singer meld reality with fiction as they both fantasize themselves as characters in a Ming dynasty tale of seduction - "The Peony Pavilion."
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마오와 애니는 서로 사랑하는 사이지만 마오가 마약밀매를 하는 삼촌 때문에 누명을 쓰고 잡혀가게 되자 2년 동안 헤어져 있게 된다. 마오의 출소 후 둘은 결혼하지만 마오가 수감 중 받은 성적학대로 인해 성관계를 가질 수 없게 된다. 참고. 이 영화의 도입부 및 중간과 후반부에 영화 의 주제곡인 마크 노플러의 음악 "The Long Road"가 그대로 사용되었다.
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A meek, middle-aged schoolteacher is put in charge of a class of trouble makers. Unable to withstand the torments they put him through, he runs away to a Shaolin temple. At the temple, he studies martial arts under the guidance of an old master. With his new skills, he returns to school and whips his misbehaving students into shape.
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In Taiwan, a young woman, Lin-Lang, is released from prison after serving ten years for terrorist activity. She had turned to bomb making in grief after her mentor and lover, An Rong, who was also her university professor, was arrested for political activity and, she presumed, executed. In prison, she learns Rong is alive, and she maintains her spirits and sanity for the years in her cell by holding imaginary conversations with him. When she is released, she discovers he is married, has a child, and lives conventionally. She finds him; he's not happy to see her. How she reacts to losing the center of her life becomes the subject of the film.
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Chu Chi Kit returns to HK from Taiwan after many years in hiding, and immediately resumes his relationship with old flame May and rejoins his old friend Cramp in a drug operation. But times are different, and their big boss Lui now cares more about business than loyalty.
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오해와 엇갈림으로 가득한 이틀 동안의 낮과 밤을 통해 대만의 도시적 삶을 신랄한 블랙코미디로 보여 주는 작품. 도시 공무원과 사업가, 광고업자 등 다양한 인물들이 도시의 어둠에서 겪는 일을 그린 영화로 대만 사회의 전통적 가치관과 문화의 퇴락에 대한 에드워드 양의 관심이 투영된 작품이다. 밝고 경쾌한 리듬과 수다스러운 대사를 통해 신세대들의 사랑과 경제, 예술과 종교적인 위선을 보여준다. 타이페이를 위장 도시로 표현하면서, 밝은 면보다는 암울한 면이 더 많은 곳이라는 것을 암시한다.
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A high school loser dreams of winning the heart of the principal's daughter, but his chances are slim as long as her bruiser boyfriend's around. Fortunately, a chance meeting with a pair of Shaolin-trained kids (previously seen in DRAGON FROM SHAOLIN) gives him the fighting skills needed to come out on top. An unusual but entertaining blending of teen romantic comedy and martial arts slapstick
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A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him and return home. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws and weirdoes.
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A group of young Taipei residents is drawn into the city’s underworld through the growing obsession of one, the boyish Ah-feng, for the sexy Cantonese mistress of a gang boss.
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14살 소년 샤오쓰는 국어 성적이 나쁘다는 이유로 중학교 주간부에서 야간부로 반을 옮기게 되고 ‘소공원’파와 어울려 다닌다. 그러던 중 샤오쓰는 양호실에서 밍이라는 이름의 소녀를 만나게 된다. 소녀는 ‘소공원’파의 보스 허니의 여자로 허니는 샤오밍을 차지하기 위해 경쟁조직인 ‘217’파의 보스를 죽이고 은둔 중이다. 보스의 부재로 통제력을 상실한 ‘소공원’파는 보스 자리를 두고 혼란에 빠지고 돌연 허니가 돌아오게 되면서 ‘소공원’파 내부와 ‘217’파간의 대립이 격해진다. 그리고 밍을 사랑하게 된 샤오쓰도 이들의 싸움에 휘말리게 되는데...
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A snake god, prisoner in a cave since thousand years, takes possession of a man and transforms his arm in a snake. Under this form, the man rapes and kills women. Twenty years later, the man bites his own daughter, who is also transformed. With the help of her fiance, of another man who wants to marry her, and a sorcerer, she tries to struggle against the malevolent snake god.
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This action film tells the unique story of a biracial boy growing up in Taiwan. The boy, Chen Buo, was born to a Chinese mother and a Caucasian father, an American soldier. As a result, he is harassed by his fellow students and turns to a life of crime when he grows up.
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Taiwanese teen film, part of the same series as Chu Yen-ping's "Seven Foxes" and its sequel.
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The story depicts a dwarf who wanted to get married. Through the arrangement of his family, he was going to marry a girl, Peach. Peach rejected him in the beginning and gradually she was touched by his talents and thoughtfulness and finally accepted him.
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In this drama, the harsh treatment of women in Chinese society is examined and subtly commented upon as it tells the tale of an impoverished woman living in Shanghai, circa 1910 who tries to support her brother and sister-in-law. A marriage to a wealthy man is arranged for her, and reluctantly she endures it, even though she does not love the man who is as cruel as he is wealthy. His mother is also brutally unkind to her. She then has a son, but her struggles are not over when her husband dies and only leaves her a modest inheritance. Her wretched life has made her bitter, and so she begins making her son suffer as she die; she also becomes addicted to opium.
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film about a little boy and his friend, the ganoderma alien (translation of the Chinese title) named Y Y. On a hunting trip, some men see a large mushroom. Their guide tells them it's a god that has saved many people. The men don't care and knock it off a cliff. Bing, wraps it up and takes it home. That night, the mushroom grows a face and starts walking around the house. Soon, a friendship is born. All is well until one of dad's hunting buddies realizes Y Y's healing powers. He takes Y Y to sell him and it's up to Bing and his human friend, Fatty, to rescue Y Y and return him to his cliff.
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Chih-hua's dad and Ah-fu's father make a bet of a million dollars of getting their sons to marry Japanese wife and American wife. respectively. They both invite Ma Dachang as their instructor, all these make a lot of silly things happened. One day, Chih-hua meets Lily, a lovely Japanese girl accidentally, he falls in love with her. However, unexpectedly, Lily is a princess of Japan who leaves home....
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Yeh's directorial debut film pays tribute to the golden years of Taiwanese-dialect films in the 1960s.
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A ghost takes over a dancer's body in order to find those who killed her, and thus her revenge.
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During the offering to the Goddess of Nuwa who repaired the wall of heaven, King Zhou led all chancellors to pay tribute to Nuwa by offering incense. However, attracted by the statue of Nuwa, he wanted to marry Nuwa and later wrote a frivolous poem about her. That angered Nuwa. Nuwa predicted that the dynasty of Yin Shang would end very soon, she sent off three sprites to Yin Shang and turn the dynasty upside down. They were Millennium Fox sprite, Jade Pipa sprite, and Nine-headed Chicken sprite…
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"Loves of a Small Town Doctor" is a film directed by Ming-Cheng Chiu. It was released in 1986. The film tells that the town doctor secretly liked the new nurse at home. One morning, the doctor disappeared for no reason. Everyone panics, this kind of thing never happened. The fact is that early in the morning, still not bright, doctor carrying his camera, and took an early bus to the sea. The doctor returned to the clinic the next morning. No one could see the meaning of the doctor's departure. Only doctor himself understood it.
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It is a school bus driver's last day at work. On a whim, he drives off to the seashore with the school's cook, a young teacher, and a busload of children. Facing an unhappy retirement, he seeks one great moment of happiness, which he finds on the road with the children. They encounter an aboriginal family, who invite them in for a feast, and then some young motorcycle riders, with whom they camp by the sea.
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Misfortune sets in for the protagonist of this story when her husband dies of poisoning. She leaves Tokyo to join her father-in-law in Hong-kong where her immoral and lecherous brother-in-law harasses her. Then, her father-in-law is also murdered. Are the killings linked? And why is her brother-in-law also injured and handicapped?
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In a valiant attempt to rescue her younger brother, a young woman goes head to head with a group of ruthless gangsters.
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Shaw Legend Chi Kuan Chun is the Hung Kuen Fist master who trains an undercover agent known as Queen Bee. His brutal style of Kung Fu comes in handy when the Queen Bee takes on the villains. Authentic Hung Gar Style action presented!