Movies: Alice Tsai-yi Huang

A novelist past her prime, Fang Yuan-Yi accidentally discovers a manuscript at her publisher’s office. She recognizes not just her own signature style in the writing but also its superior talent. Alarmed by this, she steals the work and is determined...

After losing her job as a garment worker, Ling sees her prospects dim dramatically: in her mid forties, she lives in a small, dilapidated apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung and spends much of her time locked in arguments with her testy daug...

Since Six was 18, he no longer knows what freedom is. He’s trapped in a wheelchair. His father, a taxi driver, drives him every day out to the streets to sell chewing gum. That’s how Six spends his days. Till he gets to meet a quiet girl, Noodles, w...

In June, a graduation month, a college graduate Ting experiences a sudden separation from her close cousin Jane. During a series of rituals, Ting tries to defend Jane’s choice against their family and seeks an answer to Jane’s suicide and their life....

Chen Hao-Zhi lives alone with his Grandmother who has Alzheimers and has suffered from a stroke. In order to pay the bills and his grandmother's medical expenses, he goes to work in a gay massage parlor. At first, it was just work...but Hao-Zhi soon ...

Welcome to Ward 816, a place filled with incredible children who are true warriors. Each of them carries a badge symbolising their strength in fighting various diseases. In this bustling ward, there's a special group, including Yuan, Shi-yan, Heng, N...

Feng runs away from her rural home to pursue singing in Taipei but is trafficked to Japan as a prostitute. Years later, she returns to Taiwan, burdened by guilt and avoiding her family while secretly sending money home. Her brother Ming, now a police...

On Green Island in the 1950s, the female thought prisoners chose to fight for freedom, but were more forcefully suppressed by the authority. They held on to their beliefs and hoping for true freedom to come....

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A high-school girl resents her family’s traditional Taiwanese funeral business, but gains the attention of the whole school after using her knowledge of traditional funerals to help a popular but secretly suicidal classmate perform a “living funeral”...

The film, adapted from the Chung Chao-Cheng novel of the same title, Song of Chatian Mountain, depicts the intellectual tyranny of the occupiers at the end of the Second World War and the way that educated persons resisted the war. A Taiwanese man, L...

Yeh, a gifted student, transfers to Edison Junior High, a private school renowned for its academic performance. Disturbed by the gloomy atmosphere and distorted institutions, the rebellious Yeh begins to challenge everything he sees and feels. Little...

On a serendipitous New Year's Eve, a young interviewee lands a position at a company by mistake and encounters a series of quirky. events. The only person who can save this miserable situation is locked in the storage room. While a radio station is f...

DU Bin was originally a newspaper photographer but was fired from the newspaper due to the mistaken use of photographs. In low spirits, he becomes a freelancer and takes marital affairs pictures for detective agencies. One day, DU Bin starts to follo...

This is a story about the land and family memories....

After finding a box of kittens above his unstable parents' apartment, teenager Kuo-Yen finds a terrifying way to cheat his exams....

Hu Guan-yu is passionate about table tennis. He trains with his best friend Huang Xuan, hoping to make the Olympic national team. When a new coach arrives, the team's atmosphere shifts, and they gradually drift apart. A year later, Guan-yu wins the j...

A student from a modest home goes to an elite private school and makes a life-altering agreement with a talking peacock in the schoolyard....

In the early 1950s, even the small villages in Taiwan were bathed in the atmosphere of White Terror. It was a difficult time for all. There was a beautiful young woman called A-zhen. She always felt that there was something weird in her house since s...

A Tien is a construction worker who is at home due to a job accident, and along with his naughty daughter Xiao Chun (Haru), unexpectedly starts caring for a pig. Grandfather raises holy pigs and Haru stole a piglet to raise. A Tien, ​​who was struggl...