Written by Ming-Yeh Rawnsley. The article was initially published on the webpage of the Asia Dialogue Movie mogul Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫) passed away on 7 January...
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By Kun-Yu Lai Reviewing Taiwanese Cinema history, everyone refers to the masters of Taiwanese New Wave, like Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Wan Jen and Wang...
CHEN Hung-i is a graduate from the National Taiwan University, Department of Philosophy. The commercials and music videos he directed won several prizes and...
The film starts on January 16, 2016, the day of the presidential elections in Taiwan (Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected...
Love is an eternal quest. The mind does not care of the body when it searches love. The feeling of love is more dominant than the passion of love and that's...
Starring Jimmy Wang Yu, best known for his 1967 Shaw Brothers movie, “One-Armed Swordsman”, “Soul” netted him a Best Actor Award at the 15th Taipei Film...
By Lai Kun-Yu If love is an eternal emotion, what would change in the feeling after time goes by? In the movie “Three Times”, director Hou Hsiao-hsien uses...
By Shikhar Verma Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Chen Mei-juin's “The Gangster's Daughter” is her first narrative film. Showing a great eye for both the rural...
The gluttony of films taking inspiration from the work of Japanese genre films was already dying out by the late 2000s, which makes this Taiwanese oddity seem...
In the world of film buffs, (teen) rom coms are considered among the films with the lowest quality as a genre, since they are usually tear-jerkers that aim at...