Growing Up / Xiao bi de gu shi (1983)
Drama
Adapted from Taiwanese author Chu Tien Wen's novel, the film tells the story of a young man who grows up in a military dependants' village during the early days of modern Taiwan.
Starring: Chun-fang Chang, Ching-Kuo Yan, Doze Niu
Director: Kun Hao Chen
The Sandwich Man / Er zi de da wan ou (1983)
Drama
Adapted from novelist Huang Chun-ming’s three short stories: The Taste of an Apple, The Sandwich Man, and Vicky's Hat, the omnibus film foregrounds several downbeat characters who fight and struggle for their lives in the developing country of Taiwan. The film depicts, sympathetically, their self-depreciation and self-respect, laugh and tears, and hope and despair.
Starring: Bor Jeng Chen, Li-Yin Yang, Kuo-feng Tseng, Te-Nan Lai, Fu-yu Hou
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Jen Wan, Zhuang Xiang Zeng
In Our Time / Guang yin de gu shi (1982)
Drama
Composed of four vignettes, the film explores Taiwanese society from the 50s to the 90s through individual stories of growth.
Starring: Emily Y. Chang, Sylvia Chang, Chi Chen
Director: Yi Chang, I-Chen Ko,Te-chen Tao, Edward Yang
Coming Home / Gui lai (2014)
Drama | History | Romance
Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) and Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory.
Starring: Li Gong, Daoming Chen
Director: Yimou Zhang
Late Blossom / Geu-dae-leul sa-rang-hab-ni-da (2011)
Drama | Romance
"Late Blossom" follows the lives of two couples who live in the same neighborhood. Kim Man-Suk (Lee Soon-Jae) delivers milk on a motorbike at dawn. He curses a lot, but actually has a warm heart. One day when he goes up a slope, he meets Ms. Song (Yun So-Jeong) – a lonely woman who works hards by collecting and selling scrap paper. Man-Suk feels something special toward Ms. Song. Jang Kun-Bong (Song Jae-Ho) works in a parking lot. Jang Kun-Bong has a wife (Kim Soo-Mi) who suffers from Alzheimer's. He works from dawn until late at night. After work he comes home and takes care of his wife.
Starring: Soon-jae Lee, So-jeong Yun, Jae-ho Song, Su-mi Kim, Dal-su Oh Ji-hyo Song
Director: Chang-min Choo
Monk Comes Down the Mountain / Dao shi xia shan (2015)
Action | History
When a food shortage threatens the mountaintop temple where he lives, a young, wushu-capable Taoist monk named He An Xia is asked by his master to take leave. After he descends the mountain, An Xia is confronted with a strange, fantastical world. He witnesses firsthand the complicated relationship between a doctor, his wife and his brother, makes the acquaintance of a strange master-pupil duo and gets embroiled in a quest for vengeance.
Starring: Baoqiang Wang, Chen Chang, Aaron Kwok, Chiling Lin, Wei Fan, Wah Yuen
Director: Kaige Chen
My Wife Got Married / A-nae-ga kyeol-hon-haet-da (2008)
Comedy | Romance
It all started with football. Deok-hoon falls in love with In-ah, who shares his love and passion for the sport. They quickly become lovers and he proposes. After her initial refusal, they are eventually happily married. Marriage is like a dream until one day In-ah declares her wish to marry another man. She doesn't want a divorce, as she truly loves Deok-hoon but she wants to be free to love another man at the same time. Even with Deok-hoon unable to handle being the third side of a triangle, In-ah marries her new man and sets up a bizarre, bigamous romance.
Starring: Ju-hyuk Kim, Ye-jin Son
Director: Yun-su Chong
Miracle on 1st Street / 1 beon-ga-eui gi-jeok (2007)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
1st Street is a curious neighborhood untouched by the aids of modern living like proper plumbing and Internet. Pilje cruises into 1st Street with the intention to drive out its inhabitants and make way for a huge redevelopment project. As soon as he gets there, his plans start to unravel. He meets Myeongnan, a female boxer with the dream of becoming an East Asian boxing champion, and a host of colorful characters who turn his life upside down. Myeongnan works hard to attain her dream, training constantly and doing most of her talking with her fists. Myeongnan and Pilje clash, and he often finds himself on the receiving end of her ferocious punches. Instead of shunning the outsider, Myeongnan and the rest of the villagers warm to him. He is even thought of as Superman by the children of 1st Street after he enables the village's water supply and performs roof repairs. Pilje is drawn to these colorful misfits and begins to rethink his plans to destroy the zany town that they love.
Starring: Chang Jung Lim, Ji-won Ha
Director: JK Youn
Unfair the End / Anfea the end (2015)
Thriller
Set 4 years after movie "Unfair: The Answer." Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's ex-husband, Kazuo Sato (Teruyuki Kagawa) pays a terrible price. Natsumi goes back to the Investigation #1 of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to take on the organization, but Natsumi becomes involved in a new case. She gets closer to the final enemy.
Starring: Ryôko Shinohara, Kôichi Satô, Kento Nagayama, Sadao Abe, Masaya Katô, Akira, Susumu Terajima, Kôtarô Yoshida, Mion Mukaichi
Director: Shimako Sato
Taxi / Taxi Tehran (2015)
Comedy | Drama
A day with a taxi driver in Teheran.
Starring: Jafar Panahi
Director: Jafar Panahi
Go Lala Go 2 / Du Lala zhui hun ji (2015)
Comedy | Romance
After several years' strive in career, Dulala has stepped in her thirties. Though little achieved in career, her photographer boyfriend Wang Wei whom she dated with for several years hasn't ready for marriage. When finally got encouraged to proposal, he found Lala was "dating" in delicate dress with Chen Feng. At this time, Du Lala's young assistant was crazily chasing Wang Wei and introduced him as the photographer for SC's new posters which made Wang Wei felt awkward during the work together with Chen Feng and Lala; Chen Feng, on the other hand has fell in love with lala and proposed to her during their celebration party. Lala then felt into dilemma, but finally she followed her heart deep inside and lived the dreaming life with her true love Wang Wei.
Starring: Bo-lin Chen, Vic Chou, Ariel Lin
Director: Andrew Chien
Koneko monogatari / The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986)
Adventure | Drama | Family
The odyssey of two animal friends, a cat named Milo, and a dog named Otis, as they journey through the Japanese wilderness.
Starring: Kyôko Koizumi, Dudley Moore, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Shigeru Tsuyuki
Director: Masanori Hata
U ri Sunhi / Our Sunhi (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
About Sunhi who just go back to her old school to meet her professor, but coincidentally meets her ex-boyfriend and her senior. Each of them have something with her in the past.
Starring: Jae-yeong Jeong, Yu-mi Jeong, Sang Jung Kim, Min-woo Lee, Sun-kyun Lee, Ji-won Ye
Director: Sang-soo Hong
The Boy and the Beast / Bakemono no ko (2015)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy
The latest feature film from award-winning Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children): When Kyuta, a young orphan living on the streets of Shibuya, stumbles into a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by Kumatetsu, a gruff, rough-around-the-edges warrior beast who's been searching for the perfect apprentice. Despite their constant bickering, Kyuta and Kumatetsu begin training together and slowly form a bond as surrogate father and son. But when a deep darkness threatens to throw the human and beast worlds into chaos, the strong bond between this unlikely family will be put to ultimate test-a final showdown that will only be won if the two can finally work together using all of their combined strength and courage.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shôta Sometani, Suzu Hirose, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Mamoru Miyano
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Lost in Hong Kong / Gang jiong (2015)
Comedy
The film follows Xu Lai, a former artist whose dreams were dashed when the responsibilities of life set in. With his life now revolving around his wife Cai Bo who is obsessed with having children, the quirks of his eccentric family and his mediocre, ordinary existence, Xu Lai hopes to reconnect with his first love Yang YIi on an upcoming vacation. However, his hopes are dashed when he finds himself wrapped up in a murder investigation that proves truth is often stranger than fiction.
Starring: Zheng Xu, Wei Zhao, Bei-Er Bao, Juan Du
Director: Zheng Xu
Daughter / Shang shen (2015)
Horror | Thriller
Top psychiatrist Sharon, in order to squeeze into the upper class society, regardless of the wishes of her daughter Jenny, set her up with the community celebrities Ling son, so Jenny become more rebellious. At a dinner, Jenny was deliberately in front of the VIP incontinence, so that all people that Sharon has a mental illness, and began to alienated her daughter. Hit by the Sharon, at this time only to find the wrong Jenny, the face of more and more abnormal behavior of the daughter, even the Sharon also appears to be mental problems, must rely on drug stability. Sharon friends to introduce her to the Exorcist father, insisted that Jenny was evil ridden. However, after the successful exorcism, Jenny seems to be back to normal, but strange things still repeatedly occurred… What is evil spirits hard drive, or demons haunted?
Starring: Kara Hui, Yanny Chan, Tak-Bun Wong
Director: Pang Chun Chan
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance / Lady Snowblood 2 / Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga (1974)
Drama | Thriller
Lady Snowblood (Shurayuki-hime) is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes (in Lady Snowblood I). As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Jûzô Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Yoshio Harada, Shin Kishida, Tôru Abe
Director: Toshiya Fujita
Lady Snowblood / Shurayukihime (1973)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Though she dies in childbirth, she makes sure that the child will be raised as an assassin to kill the criminals who destroyed her family. Young Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Starring: Kô Nishimura, Meiko Kaji, Takeo Chii, Akemi Negishi, Eiji Okada, Toshio Kurosawa
Director: Toshiya Fujita
A Touch of Zen / Xia nü (1971)
Adventure
A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.
Starring: Chun Shih, Feng Hsu, Han Hsieh, Ying Bai
Director: King Hu
The Big Bee / Tenkû no hachi (2015)
Thriller
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter. Yuhara (Yosuke Eguchi), who is the helicopter designer, and Mishima (Masahiro Motoki), who is the nuclear power engineer, work frantically to save the child and find the criminal.
Starring: Yôsuke Eguchi, Masahiro Motoki, Yukie Nakama, Gô Ayano, Akira Emoto, Jun Kunimura
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
