Fluffy Rhapsody (2000)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 0M
Director : Mi-sen Wu
Sinopse
The film follows the meandering misadventures of an aimless medical school graduate who has never kept a job and wanders from the bed of one girl to another. He becomes caught between his flight attendant girlfriend who is often away and a high school girl who claims to be a lesbian. A mixture of fast living and brooding melancholy, Fluffy Rhapsody is an engaging, photogenic essay on the current generation of seemingly thoughtless, but in fact overly introspective urban youth.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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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.
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