Liao Pen-Jung

An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman join her search.

Ye Nan, a mother belonging to the Dai minority, comes back to her village after living in the city. She wants to take care of the 13-year-old daughter she'd left behind, but the road to rebuilding their relationship is full of obstacles. One day her daughter is arrested for stealing money from the village's most sacred temple with her friend. Since people think the girls are possessed by the devil, they decide to save them by worshipping a stone Buddha in a 250-million-year-old karst cave during the Water-Sprinkling Festival.

A property assistant, an intern, a broke greengrocer and casino keeper, a gun in the black suitcase and a celebrity goat all take part in a play within a play. There's a lot going in at the inn. Not only a film crew checked in, somebody also wants to settle a score.

É madrugada de inverno, e o trem noturno percorre uma cidade insone. Esta é a história da viagem de um monge budista por Tóquio à noite. O monge também para no balneário de um hotel-cápsula, onde se encontra com alguém por breves instantes.

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.

In 2013, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui to make a short film for an anthology film, "Letters from the South". Tsai Ming-Liang returned to his hometown in Kuching, Malaysia and made a "Walker" film at his childhood home, "Walking on Water". The seven-storey flat which contained the happy memories of his childhood is now occupied by strangers. His old neighbour, an older girl who used to bathe and feed him when he was a child, has also grown old.

In 2011, Tsai Ming-Liang staged a play, "Only You", for Taiwan's National Theater and Concert Hall. In it, there was a powerfully moving scene where monk Xuanzang walked at an extremely slow pace for half an hour. Lamenting the transient nature of theater, Tsai decided to make a movie out of this slow-walking performance, "No Form", the first of his "Walker Films" series.

Hsaio-Kong é um cineasta de Taiwan, que começa a rodar seu próximo filme, uma visão da mítica Salomé, na França. No set ele começa a lidar com uma série de imprevistos, que se tornam insignificantes ao saber que sua mãe morreu.

Ah Jie perdeu tudo no mercado de ações por causa de uma grave crise econômica. Ele passa seus dias fechado em seu apartamento, fumando baseados e cuidando da planta de maconha que ele secretamente cultiva em seu guarda-roupa. Num momento de desespero, Ah Jie telefona para uma central de ajuda para suicidas e quem lhe atende é Chyi, cuja voz doce e gentil o faz se apaixonar pela imagem idealizada que cria dela. Tenta convidá-la para sair, mas é rejeitado repetidas vezes. Ele começa a projetar suas fantasias a respeito de Chyi em Shin, a nova funcionária da loja de sementes instalada no térreo de seu prédio. Shin veste-se sempre de forma sexy para atrair clientes. Ele se torna íntimo dela e logo os dois mergulham num mundo de prazeres eróticos e psicodélicos.

To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival invited around thirty filmmakers to create three-minute short films to compose the collective film Chacun son cinema. Tsai Ming-liang proposed a twinned piece with his feature Goodbye, Dragon Inn, an exploration of the movie theater as a public space and collective experience. Shortly after, Tsai put on this new version of the piece, twenty minutes longer, which was presented at the Venice Biennale.

Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.

City-slicker DJ Li Tong Zhe (Darren Chiu) heads to the mountain regions of central Taiwan to record sounds for a 921 earthquake memorial segment. Staying with a teacher in a Bunun village, he finds himself worlds away from the life he knows in Taipei. Tong Zhe meets A-Bu, a 10-year-old boy who lost his eyesight after the earthquake and keeps himself shut away from other people. A-Bu’s teacher Zu Wei (Janine Chang) is teaching him folk songs, hoping that music will open his voice and heart. While helping A-Bu and Zu Wei, Tong Zhe realizes what has been missing from his own life.

Taipei passa por estiagem terrível e a água começa a ficar cada vez mais escassa. As pessoas são obrigadas a saciar a sede com suco de melancia, mais barato e mais fácil de encontrar que a água. A jovem Shiang-Chyi conhece Hsiao-Kang, um vendedor, por acaso e um romance se inicia entre eles. O que a moça não sabe é que ele é um ator pornô que está filmando em um dos apartamentos de seu prédio.

Na última noite antes de um velho cinema fechar uma jovem japonesa corre para o cinema, mesmo apesar da chuva. O cinema parece deserto, sem vida. Mas, no entanto, há algumas pessoas, algumas talvez não sejam pessoas...

A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.

Devido à demolição não anunciada de um passarela em Taipei, uma senhora não consegue atravessar a avenida com sua mala pesada. No mesmo local, Chen Shiang-chyi procura por um vendedor ambulante na multidão, sem perceber que ele está muito mais próximo do que imagina.

Falta pouco para a chegada do ano 2000 e uma epidemia ataca Taipei, mas os moradores ignoram a ordem de evacuação e permanecem em suas casas. A moradora de um apartamento chama um encanador para investigar um vazamento de água incontrolável que atinge sua casa, vindo do apartamento de cima; o encanador abre um buraco no piso do apartamento superior e promete voltar em seguida, mas não retorna. O buraco acaba criando uma "porta" de ligação entre os dois moradores.

Uma equipe está gravando um filme e tentando fazer um boneco flutuando em um rio ser convincente o suficiente para parecer uma pessoa morta. Sem sucesso e frustrada, a diretora pede a um rapaz que fizesse o papel do corpo, e mesmo relutante por conta da poluição do rio, ele aceita. Dias depois aparece no pescoço do rapaz uma estranha dor, e mesmo que ele busque várias formas diferentes de resolver ninguém parece ter sucesso.

Young boy, Ah-Jiang, a school failure and day dreamer witnesses the kidnapping of a child. After being taken hostage by a corrupt family, he begins an unusual adventure away from home.

Três pessoas vivem em Taiwan e dividem o mesmo apartamento sem ter a menor ideia do compartilhamento. Uma delas é Mei, que usa o local para seus encontros amorosos; além dela, há Ah-jung, seu amante do momento. Hsiao-kang, um homem que roubou a chave do apartamento para utilizar a casa como abrigo, completa o trio.

Uma juventude transviada. A reencarnação de um Deus Antigo. Há rancores que se ocultam nas luzes da noite.

"Door Latch" and his friend followed the KMT army and moved to Taiwan in 1949. They conceal their real name and get many trials and afflictions to adapt the circumstances in that special situation. Yueh-Shiang is a classic traditional woman from China country. For requiting the graciousness of being saved by Door Latch, she becomes Door Latch's wife. She suffers hardship to raise and teach their children without any complains. Door Latch wasn't well educated and can hardly read. However, he uses Yueh-Shiang's late husband's name and diploma to get himself a job. Even though there are a lot of embarrassing situations and he suffers many difficulties, Door Latch survives. Door Latch also looks after his old pal Lee Der-Sherng when Lee loses his mind. However, the KMT government released the restriction to visit Mainland China. They are able to visit their parents and relatives there. Their son finds "their" parents, but bigger secrets will unfold.

After a devastating artillery attack on the island of Kinmen, commander Chi Liang-chen and his battery prepare a counter-attack.

Financial woes causes a young woman to turn to the oldest profession for work. Her sacrificial deeds to raise her siblings are left unappreciated by her younger sister.

A new secretary for the Hsiao family met an office boy on her first day at work. She was puzzled when he asked if she would marry into Hsiao family. Upon understanding the fact that all the Hsiao secretaries had married the Hsiao sons, she assertively assured that she would not follow the trend, they started dating and soon fall in love. Then one day an angry man stormed into the office and revealed the true identity of the office boy. He was actually the youngest son of the Hsiao family…

An old granny missed her beloved grand-daughter who was away in America for many years. Little did she know that her grand-daughter had met a mishap and died long ago. In view not to hurt the old granny, her grandson found a girl who was his sister look-a-like to feign her...

A pretty nurse falls for her wheelchair-bound patient, and love triumphs over a series of misunderstandings caused by jealousy.