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Movies: Best "taiwan" Movies


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Yi Yi(2000)

2h 54min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 212 votes)

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

Directed by Edward Yang - With Wu Nien-jen, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata, Edward Yang, Lin Adriene, Chen Yi Wen, ...

A Brighter Summer Day(1991)

NR
| 3h 57min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
4.2/5 (with 121 votes)

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Directed by Edward Yang - With Chang Chen, Elaine Jin, Chen Yi Wen, Chang Kuo-chu, Zhang Han, ...

Eat Drink Man Woman(1994)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each of the daughters encounter new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes. Since the family has difficulty expressing their love for each other, the intricate preparation of banquet quality dishes for their Sunday dinners is the surrogate for their familial feelings.

The Wedding Banquet(1993)

3.6/5 (with 100 votes)

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.

Terrorizers(1986)

1h 49min | Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 56 votes)

An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.

The Time to Live and the Time to Die(1985)

PG
| 2h 18min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 38 votes)

The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan.

Millennium Mambo(2001)

1h 59min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 75 votes)

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.

Taipei Story(1985)

2h | Drama
3.7/5 (with 42 votes)

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.

Directed by Edward Yang - With Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tsai Chin, Wu Nien-jen, Ko Suyun

Tigertail(2020)

1h 31min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 37 votes)

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

That Day, on the Beach(1983)

2h 46min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 15 votes)

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.

A Confucian Confusion(1994)

3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values.

Directed by Edward Yang - With Chen Shiang-chyi, Elaine Jin, Chen Yi Wen, Joyce Ni, Danny Deng, Berson Wang, ...

Who Killed Cock Robin(2017)

1h 58min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

An ambitious journalist who witnessed a hit-and-run years ago reboots his investigation led by newly emerged clues. As he beats the clock to save the only survivor after her sudden disappearance, layers of unimaginable dark truths around a corrupted system start peeling.

Directed by Cheng Wei-hao - With Kaiser Chuang, Tiffany Hsu, Ko Chia-yen, Christopher Lee, Mason Lee
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Fantasy Mission Force(1983)

2.6/5 (with 19 votes)

A force of loners and fighters is put together to try and rescue the generals and save the war effort with the promise of gold and pardons of past crimes.

Directed by Chu Yen-ping - With Jimmy Wang Yu, Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin

Paradise in Service(2014)

3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service" follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in preparation for a war that could erupt anytime. Through an unlucky lottery draw result, Pao, a twenty-something young man from Southern Taiwan has to serve the military in the remote and perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB), a unit noted for the toughest physical training. It never occurs to Pao, however, that the greatest challenge in his military service lies not in the Sea Dragon but in Unit 831, a special task he is later appointed to… In this peculiar assignment, Pao vows to keep his virginity against all odds.

Directed by Doze Niu - With Ethan Juan

Double Vision(2002)

3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.

In Our Time(1982)

1h 50min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood.

Directed by Edward Yang

Shaolin Heroes(1979)

1h 30min | Action, Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

During the declining years of Ming dynasty, Mongolians sent secret agents to intrude central China and try to obtain "The Light sword". A mighty sword which can gather all brave wanderers. The son of Lung Chen Ying, master of the Light Sword style, learns of the plot and kills the leader of the secret mission and temporarily stops the Mongolian's ambition.

The Most Distant Course(2007)

1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Tang goes on a trip to Taitung to record the sounds of nature, hoping the tape may save his relationship with his girlfriend who is leaving him. What he does not know, is that she has already moved away and another girl, Yun, has moved into that apartment. Yun is trapped in a hopeless love triangle, and troubled by all the issues she faces in life. After listening to the tape that Tang sent, she feels as if the kindness of nature is calling her, and travels to Taitung to find the mysterious man who sends her the tape.

Directed by Lin Jing-jie - With Gwei Lun-Mei

Minxiong Haunted House(2022)

1h 19min | Horror
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

During the Qingming Festival, a single mother He Sheng Xin, her daughter and mother, visits the tomb at Chiayi Minxiong Cemetery. Xiao Yi, Sheng Xin's daughter, gets missing when she accidentally touches weird barrier, keeping strangers away from the tombstones. The key to find missing child, seems to be hidden in mansion walls, attached to the cemetery. Sheng Xin, soon enter the mansion, and with clues from ancient ghosts, stuck in the building, she's not only trying to find her daughter, but also solve and reveal terrifying secret that had been buried for many years in the building. Story is based on real urban legends around Minxiong Haunted House located in Chiayi, Minxiong Township.

Mahjong(1996)

2h 1min | Comedy, Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Winston Chen, a prominent businessman, goes missing after racking up $100 million in debts to the Taipei underworld. Two enforcers sent to find him, and they track down his son, Red Fish, the leader of a street gang.

Anywhere Somewhere Nowhere(2014)

2h 9min | Drama

Lee and his friend plan to travel round the island of Taiwan when they both face their biggest challenges in life.

Directed by Leading Li

B.T.S. (Better Than Sex)(2002)

1h 32min | Mystery, Adventure, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

A web of connected stories on adventure, sex, and love in Taiwan, including a 17 y.o. boy with a porn obsession, three hoodlums, and a self-righteous police officer.

Directed by Su Chao-Bin

Pinoy Sunday(2009)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

The discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for Filipino guest workers Manuel and Dado.

Directed by Wi Ding Ho - With Lu Yi-ching

DiDi's Dreams(2017)

3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

In this one-of-a-kind fantasy comedy, Didi is an aspiring actress trying to prove herself to her superstar sister. She keeps having the same dream about love affairs of a woman named Xu Chunmei, who owns a spaceship restaurant known for a noodle soup with ancestral secret recipe. After overcoming countless hardships, Didi finally gets her long expected career breakthrough, but life takes unexpected turns at the same time and the truths about her dreams start to unveil. A hilarious and tearful ode to the golden age of local variety entertainment, reputed TV host and best-selling author Kevin Tsai's directorial debut stars his longtime partner Dee Hsu(Little S) in the most influential TV show in the Chinese speaking world, Kangsi Coming.

Directed by Kevin Tsai - With Dee Hsu

Sakura Killers(1987)

PG-13
| 1h 26min | Action
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Chuck Connors stars in this routine martial arts feature as the Colonel. He sends agents Sonny (Mike Kelly) and Dennis (George Nichols) to Taiwan in search of microfilm containing experiments on genetic engineering. The agents soon find themselves up against Japanese killers known as the Sakura who plan to sell United States secrets to the Soviet Union. Sonny and Dennis train with a martial arts master in order to fight the enemy and obtain the coveted microfilm.

Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story(2018)

1h 37min | Documentary
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

The first and only Taiwanese player for the New York Yankees, Chien-Ming Wang held many titles: American League Wins Leader, World Series Champion, Olympian, Time 100 Most Influential, and The Pride of Taiwan. He had it all - until a 2008 injury forever altered the course of his career. Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story - named after the late sinking action on his signature pitch - follows the rise and fall of the international icon as he fights his way back into the Major Leagues through endless rehab programs and lengthy stints away from home, carrying the weight of the world on his battered shoulder. A poignant and intimate account of Wang’s steadfast quest, Late Life tells the story of a man who is unwilling to give up and unable to let go.

Directed by Frank W. Chen, Tommy Yu - With Wang Chien-ming, Neil Allen, Brian Cashman

White Phantom(1987)

R
| 1h 29min | Action
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A group of camouflaged ninjas stealing a small case of plutonium from a transport vehicle in broad daylight in California. Back in his office in Sanzhi, Taiwan, The Colonel (Bo Svenson) receives word of the heist and the top suspect is the Sakura family. Selected for the job of locating this stolen nuke material is Mai Lin (Page Leong), an informant/dancer. Willi (Jay Roberts, Jr.), a drunken American playboy who is prone to playing the harmonica teams up with Mai Lin. Willi also just happens to be a white ninja.

With Jay Roberts Jr.

The Story of the Stone(2018)

1h 45min | Drama
2.1/5 (with 5 votes)

An adaptation of an 18th century Chinese classic remixed for an honest depiction of gay life in Taipei in the 21st century.

With JR, Adam Lin, Sky Li, Daniel Tsai

The Shaolin Kids(1975)

1h 30min | Comedy, Action
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Lui is a powerful ex-minister who opposes the ambitious premier Hu Wei Yen. Lui is assassinated, so his daughter Lui Sin and an assorted band of people loyal to the emperor seeks revenge and justice. The premier made a mistake - he allowed a scroll of battle orders to fall into loyalist hands. Lui and Co learn this, and vow to take this proof of treason to the emperor. But, though the loyalists have Shaolin on their side, the premier has two renegade shaolin, who say "Earth and Sky", which makes them invincible, as well as golden pills, which restore their health if badly wounded. And, naturally, there are loads of old men who stroke their long white beards whilst nodding their heads.

Code Name: Cougar(1989)

1h 16min | Drama, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Chinese authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on board, but agree to cooperate with Taiwanese authorities to defuse the tense situation.

Directed by Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang - With Gong Li
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