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2) Detention
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
We're in 1962 Taiwan, during the time of the White Terror, with martial law in full force on the island. In this time of extreme repression, all ideas considered to be dissident are banned, and the culprits are tortured or executed. Tsuihua Secondary School is not an exception to this oppression. Despite close surveillance by the military police, Professor Chang runs an underground literary club where he and his students learn about banned books and...
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
A traveling scholar is tasked with translating a Buddhist sutra said to have immense power over the spirits of the afterlife. During his research, he loses his way in the mountains, encountering ghostly presences amid a haunting fantasia of color, light and landscape.
6) The rooftop
Pub. Date
2013
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Gao and his friends are the happiest kids in the city of Galilee. Living on the rooftops of this bustling metropolis, sometimes life can be tough, but they still churn out songs all day, and dance under the stars at night. But when Gao meets his dream girl, a billboard beauty named Sian, fate takes him on a wild ride through the high and low parts of the town he loves.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
A fugitive noblewoman seeks refuge in a remote, and allegedly haunted, village. The sanctuary she finds with a shy scholar and two aides in disguise is shattered when a nefarious swordsman uncovers her identity, pitting the four against legions of blade-wielding opponents.
8) Yi yi
Series
Criterion collection volume 339
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Special ed.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Follow a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chroniclingmiddle-age father NJ's tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang's attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Features commentary, interview, and booklet.
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen format (1.85:first).
Language
English
Description
A Taiwanese gay man living in Manhattan agrees to a marriage of convenience with a mainland Chinese woman in need of a green card. His parents are thrilled, and fly to the States to help him plan a lavish wedding banquet.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], 2013.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
In this madcap and lighthearted comedic romp, introverted optometrist Weichung begins to question his marriage with his wife Feng, upon learning of her desire to have another baby. At his sister's engagement party, Weichung bumps into an old friend, Stephen, a wedding photographer who, though also married, is living the high life of a younger, single gay man. When Stephen teases Weichung for his newly straightlaced lifestyle, dormant emotions are...
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
4.5 hour international version.
Language
Multiple
Description
After Japan invades Taiwan in 1930, the native Seediq people are in danger of losing their culture and way of life. The men are taken from their traditional lives as hunters and forced to perform hard labor at low wages. The women are taken away to be household workers for the Japanese. The Seediq are also forbidden to tattoo their faces, which many believe is necessary to cross the 'Rainbow Bridge' after death. The Seediq men plan to go to war against...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1077
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Austronesian
Description
During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the Seediq were forced to lose their own culture and give up their faith. Men were subject to harsh labor and kept from traditional hunting; whereas women had to serve the Japanese policemen and their families by doing the household work and giving up their traditional weaving work. Above all, they were forbidden to tattoo their faces. And these tattoos were seen as the Seediq's traditional belief to transform themselves...
Series
Criterion collection volume 804
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, it is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager.
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