Chu Tien-wen

“I Remember” tells the story of sister writers Chu Tien-wen and Chu Tien-xin, from co-founding the San-san magazine to their respective creative and political efforts up to the present.

Chu Tien-Wen, frequent screenwriter for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, makes her directorial debut with this entry in The Inspired Island documentary series. With Hou as producer, cinematographer Yao Hung-I and editor Liao ChingSung, Chu takes a deep dive into the story of her parents, famed authors Chu Hsi-Ning and Liu Mu-Sha. Through family albums, old letters and interviews with fellow writers, Chu crafts a deeply personal portrait of her parents’ romance, literary careers, family roots and the unfinished opus her father left behind.

Chu Tien-Wen, frequent screenwriter for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, makes her directorial debut with this entry in The Inspired Island documentary series. With Hou as producer, cinematographer Yao Hung-I and editor Liao ChingSung, Chu takes a deep dive into the story of her parents, famed authors Chu Hsi-Ning and Liu Mu-Sha. Through family albums, old letters and interviews with fellow writers, Chu crafts a deeply personal portrait of her parents’ romance, literary careers, family roots and the unfinished opus her father left behind.

No século VIII, durante a dinastia Tiang, Yinniang (Shu Qi) é uma assassina profissional, treinada com os melhores mestres. Ela é encarregada de matar um homem do governo, mas não consegue cumprir a tarefa quando o vê segurando um bebê recém-nascido. Punida por sua covardia, ela recebe a tarefa mais difícil de sua vida: matar o próprio primo, por quem é apaixonada, e com quem deveria se casar desde a adolescência. Yinniang tem que se confrontar ao passado para cumprir as ordens de sua mestra.

Três diferentes épocas, três histórias, o mesmo actor e actriz, evocando três reincarnações de um amor inacabado... 1966 - "Um tempo de amar". Uma jovem, May, e um soldado, Chen, conhecem-se numa sala de jogos. Partilham momentos numa maravilhosa noite quente. 1911 - "Um tempo de liberdade". Durante a ocupação japonesa da Formosa, um diplomata casado ganha, através da sua bondade, a admiração de uma cortesã, num bordel em Dadaocheng. Contudo, os seus princípios modernos não permitem que a tome como sua concubina. 2005 - "Um tempo de juventude". Sob a ameaça de guerra com a China, a Formosa encontra-se instável. Uma jovem bissexual, Jing, envolve-se num triângulo amoroso. Paixões secretas fervilham por entre mal-entendidos, rejeições e relações modernas que florescem e falham à distância segura de sms e de emails.

Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father and stepmother or Hajime, the owner of a small bookstore who could be the father of her unborn child. Yoko seems most at home when she's riding the train, speeding around the city with only her thoughts to entertain her.

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.

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.

Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, directed by Olivier Assayas.

Women struggle in a Shanghai brothel where everything only appears to be beautiful.

In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which promise to get the gang nowhere fast.

An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is about to appear in.

Hou Hsiao-Hsien centra este seu filme (Prémio do Júri do Festival de Cannes 1993) na vida e carreira do marionetista Li Tien-Lu, cuja vida pessoal combina com a história de Taiwan entre 1909 e o fim da dominação japonesa da ilha em 1945. "The Puppetmaster," como é internacionalmente conhecido, é o segundo dos títulos da trilogia histórica do realizador, também composta por "A City of Sadness" (1989) e "Good Men, Good Women" (1995).

Filme que narra uma série de acontecimentos em Taiwan entre 1945 e 1949 a partir das experiências de uma família de quatro filhos, um patriarca e alguns agregados. Destaque para o trágico acontecimento de 28 de fevereiro de 1947, quando mais de 20 mil taiwaneses foram mortos por tropas nacionalistas chinesas.

Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.

Aparentemente feitos um para o outro, um casal de jovens namorados abandona sua pequena cidade para viver em Taipei, onde começam a procurar trabalho. Aos poucos, a relação vai se deteriorando frente às dificuldades que encontram no dia-a-dia.

This is a story located in a small town in Taiwan during the 50's and 60's. Mei-Hsia is from the most prominent family in town. Yun-Lang works in the local peasant assocation. They like each other, but Mei-Hsia is afraid to tell her mother about their seeing each other. They wait till Yun-Lang sends a matchmaker to Mei-Hsia's family. There was no way that Mei-Hsia's family would agree to their marriage. Mei-Hsia's parents send her to a relative in the northeast of Keelung, in an attempt to stop them from seeing each other, but Yun-Lang follows her there. Mei-Hsia's relative doesn't stop them until Mei-Hsia's mother finds out. Now their love is an open affair. This time, it's the Mei-Hsias turn to propose a marriage between the two families. To everyone's surprise, the Yun-Langs turn it down. Mei-Hsia and Yun-Lang planned to elope, but they failed. She kills herself. At last, Yun-Lang can call Mei-Hsia his wife by marring her memorial tablet.

O filme apresenta a história de uma família chinesa que se muda para Taiwan. A princípio temporária, a nova moradia acaba se tornando definitiva.

Bi Bao-Liang is a 29 year-old man who believes that he will have bad luck if he touches a woman before he turns thirty. Liu Xiang-mei is a beautiful woman who had a love affair with her married boss, and now she is pregnant. In order to give her child a family name, she decides to find a man to have a one-year marriage contract. Bi Bao-Liang is the perfect man she is looking for because he is afraid of women. However, their marriage does not follow what they've planned...

A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.

Historia do menino Tung-tung e sua irmã caçula Ting-ting que são mandados para o interior, para a casa de seu avô materno, enquanto sua mãe está doente, internada num hospital em Taipei.

A boy fell in love with a girl, then the girl left. Years later, the boy found that he is a father now.

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.

The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, to a stable adult.

Taking place in modern-day Taipei, Hou Hsiao-Hsien focuses on a lonely river goddess whose waterways have now been covered by modern roadways.