Li-Yin Yang

In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joines a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently... (imdb)

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. In the city, A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school... (imdb)

This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker's own boyhood. (imdb)

Lung, a former member of the national Little League team and now operator of an old-style fabric business, is never able to shake a longing for his past glory. One day, he runs into a forme teammate who is now a struggling cab driver. The two talk about old times and they are struck by a sense of loss. Lung is living with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a westernized professional woman who grew up in a traditional family. (imdb)

Composed of three separate stories. The first tells about a man who ekes out a living for his young family by carrying advertisement sandwich boards. The second vignette tells of two ambitious young men who discover too late that a product they are trying to sell is defective. The third vignette explores what happens when a poor laborer is struck by a high-ranking American official's automobile.

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city. (imdb)

Travelling is always the best way to encounter true stories. Ming-Hsang, a deaf, decided to cycle around Taiwan before graduating from the college. (imdb)

A woman, married off to a butcher who routinely abuses her, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and tradition in Taiwan.