Kuzoku meets Formosa
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 0M
Director : Katsuya Tomita
Sinopse
Uma série de crimes macabros acontece em Taiwan. Sem especialistas no assunto, as autoridades locais importam um agente do FBI para ajudar na resolução dos assassinatos. Colocado ao lado de um agente taiwanês, a investigação os conduzirá a um submundo caótico.
Baseado em uma história verídica sobre um conflito entre duas gangues de jovens, a namorada de um garoto de 14 anos entra em conflito com o chefe de uma gangue por uma razão pouco clara, até que finalmente o conflito atinge um clímax violento.
Wai (Winston Chao) é um homem de negócios jovem e bem sucedido de Taiwan que mora em um belo apartamento no Brooklyn com seu namorado americano Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). Seus pais não sabem que ele é gay, e com isso ele sofre constantes pressões para se casar, então Simon o incentiva a se casar com a inquilina Wei Wei (May Chin) por conveniência. Em troca, ela conseguiria o seu green card, já que Wai é naturalizado americano. No entanto, o belo plano dos três começa a dar bem errado e render engraçadas situações quando a família do noivo chega de Taiwan na véspera do casório.
A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each of the daughters encounter new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes. Since the family has difficulty expressing their love for each other, the intricate preparation of banquet quality dishes for their Sunday dinners is the surrogate for their familial feelings.
The beautiful Vicky drifts through her empty life in the neon-lit Taipei, maintaining a pointless relationship with her loser DJ boyfriend, Hao-Hao, and an unsatisfying career as a nightclub hostess. As her romance becomes increasingly strained, she decides to take up with Jack, a caring but criminally connected businessman. But this new relationship can't change Vicky's aimless nature, and her future remains as doubtful as ever.
Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service" follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in preparation for a war that could erupt anytime. Through an unlucky lottery draw result, Pao, a twenty-something young man from Southern Taiwan has to serve the military in the remote and perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB), a unit noted for the toughest physical training. It never occurs to Pao, however, that the greatest challenge in his military service lies not in the Sea Dragon but in Unit 831, a special task he is later appointed to… In this peculiar assignment, Pao vows to keep his virginity against all odds.
O Ocidente encontra o Oriente. Nesta combinação de alta tecnologia militar e antigos ensinamentos de artes marciais, um ninja do serviço secreto prepara uma vingança contra perigosos espiões infiltrados. Um jogo mortal em que a mais alta tecnologia se confronta com os milenares segredos do Oriente, explodindo numa guerra sem tréguas!
O filme apresenta a história de uma família chinesa que se muda para Taiwan. A princípio temporária, a nova moradia acaba se tornando definitiva.
An ambitious journalist who witnessed a hit-and-run years ago reboots his investigation led by newly emerged clues. As he beats the clock to save the only survivor after her sudden disappearance, layers of unimaginable dark truths around a corrupted system start peeling.
O primeiro e único jogador taiwanês do New York Yankees, Chien-Ming Wang, detinha muitos títulos: Liga dos Campeões da América, Campeão da World Series, Olímpico, Time 100 Most Influential e The Pride of Taiwan. Ele tinha tudo - até que uma lesão de 2008 alterou para sempre o curso de sua carreira. Late Life: A história de Wang Chien-Ming - nomeada após a ação tardia de afundar em seu campo de assinatura - segue a ascensão e queda do ícone internacional enquanto ele luta para voltar às principais ligas através de programas de reabilitação sem fim e longos períodos longe de casa , carregando o peso do mundo em seu ombro machucado. Um relato pungente e íntimo da busca constante de Wang, Late Life conta a história de um homem que não está disposto a desistir e incapaz de deixar ir.
Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood.
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.
After 30 years of cold war, Taiwan and China finally opened cross-strait trade and tourism in 1980. However, through decades of political and educational vilification of their counterparts by the KMT and CCP, and despite close economic and cultural ties, what lies beneath the diplomatic relations is a disconnect and mistrust that cannot be denied. KE is a failed business in Taiwan who hopes to start over as a 'Taiwanese Expat' in Shenzheng, China with a Taiwanese company. Lili, a laborer from China, meets her Taiwanese husband online and moves to Taiwan in hopes of a better life. Both KE and Lili cross the straits in hope of achieving what they cannot find in their homeland. But how much do they really know about that country across the straits?
Lee and his friend plan to travel round the island of Taiwan when they both face their biggest challenges in life.
A web of connected stories on adventure, sex, and love in Taiwan, including a 17 y.o. boy with a porn obsession, three hoodlums, and a self-righteous police officer.
Tang goes on a trip to Taitung to record the sounds of nature, hoping the tape may save his relationship with his girlfriend who is leaving him. What he does not know, is that she has already moved away and another girl, Yun, has moved into that apartment. Yun is trapped in a hopeless love triangle, and troubled by all the issues she faces in life. After listening to the tape that Tang sent, she feels as if the kindness of nature is calling her, and travels to Taitung to find the mysterious man who sends her the tape.
The discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for Filipino guest workers Manuel and Dado.
Robert Wallace travels to Hong Kong to bust a gang of drug trafficker's. There he finds help from Tang and Suzy, as well as his fellow Supermen Max & Jerry.
Captain Lu is the respected head of security of a village, but his wealthy boss runs the town, and is corrupt, while the boss's son is a dissolute skirt-chaser. Pai Yu Ching, the Southern Fist, swaggers into town, and clashes with Captain Lu, which earns him an offer to work for the town boss. However, nearly everyone in the town is something other than what they seem. Lu has a shameful secret in his past, which motivates Miss Li to ask Pai to kill him. The town boss is minting counterfeit coins, and someone is trying to gather the evidence of this. Events bring Lu and Pai onto the same side, which is fortunate, because the town boss brings in Mr Lung, a fearsome martial arts genius, to kill off all his enemies.
An adaptation of an 18th century Chinese classic remixed for an honest depiction of gay life in Taipei in the 21st century.