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ABSURD BRAVE
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Breathtaking cinematography and thrilling fight sequences highlight this newly restored Wuxia swordplay classic. The head of the outlaw Five Flower sect is hunted down and executed, leaving his surviving offspring thirsty for revenge with the eldest daughter leading the charge. Her search for vengeance leaves a stunningly bloody trail of assassinations that must be countered by the governor's son. In Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles. Taiwan---1969---101 mins.
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BEAUTIFUL NEW WORLD
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BLOODY MASK
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This classic of Taiwanese action cinema features great Wuxia swordplay in a story of loyalty and betrayal. The Ming Dynasty faces a possible rebellion from the state of Yun. However, when a Ming prince seeks refuge in a Yun fortress, Yun leaders are torn between the young man's safety and the province's independence. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Patrick Kong Yeung---Taiwan---1969---88 mins.
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BLUE GATE CROSSING
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Joys, wonders and questions arise as three teens discover their sexuality in this gentle, coming-of-age comedy. Best friends Meng (Guey Lun-mei) and Lin (Liang Shu-hui) are typical 17-year-old high school girls. But, when Lin reveals her crush on the star of the swim team to her best friend, previously unknown feelings of jealously and attraction are stirred up in Meng, leading her to question her own sexuality. "Enchanting" (New York Post). In Mandarin with English subtitles. Yee Chih-yen---Taiwan/France---2002---85 mins.
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CHIVALROUS LEGEND
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Set during Japan's invasion of Taiwan, this action feature follows a martial artist and gambler who teams up with a prostitute to form a Robin Hood-type partnership--stealing money from the rich to help the poor. As Japanese authorities close in, they must go into hiding. In Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles. Choi Yeung Meng---Taiwan---1999---96 mins.
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DOUBLE VISION
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An American expert in serial killers (David Morse) is sent to Taiwan by the FBI to investigate a series of unexplainable, supernatural murders, where he's paired with a troubled local cop (Tony Leung). To apprehend the culprits, the duo ventures into Taiwan's darkest, most mysterious realms, where they find their innermost fears and demons being turned against them by an evil mind-control cult. In Mandarin and English with English subtitles. Kou-fu Chen---Taiwan/Hong Kong---2002---113 mins.
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DRIFTING FLOWERS
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The third feature from Zero Chou (Spider Lilies) is another lesbian drama, only this time broken into three segments. The sections explore sexual identity issues as faced by a confused little girl, a rebellious tomboy, and a victim of Alzheimer's disease. "Drifting Flowers offers enough exquisite moments and genuine sentiment to satisfy its niche target audience" (Time Out Hong Kong). In Taiwanese with English subtitles.
Zero Choi---Taiwan---2008---97 mins.
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FLEEING BY NIGHT
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Fleeing By Night is a subtle period drama set in 1930's Taiwan that tells the story of a complicated love triangle between a young girl, her cellist boyfriend and the male Chinese opera star that he adores. This lush, moving melodrama wonderfully conveys a universal tale of unrequited love against a backdrop of history, spectacle and bittersweet grace. "Exquisite! Beautiful! Extraordinary!" (The Los Angeles Times). In Mandarin with Li-Kong Hsu/Chi Yin---Taiwan---2000---123 mins.
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GOODBYE, DRAGON INN
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With his minimalist masterpiece What Time is it There?, Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang paid implicit tribute to Antonioni's bleak modernism and Harold Lloyd's slapstick silents. In Goodbye Dragon Inn - an even sparser and more rigorously composed film - Ming-Liang fashions an explicit homage to the world of movies. Set in a crumbling Taipei movie palace during a screening of the 1968 martial arts classic Dragon Inn, Ming-Liang's camera follows a clubfooted theatre manager, a lonely Japanese moviegoer, an d other characters to evoke a poetic valentine to a dying cinematic age. "A movie of elegant understatement and considerable formal intelligence" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). In Mandarin and Taiwanese with English Tsai Ming-liang---Taiwan---2004---83 mins.
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HELP ME EROS
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Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, this trippy, erotic film that was written and directed by Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng (Goodbye Dragon Inn), shows clear similarities to the surreal, taboo-filled work of his mentor, Tsai Ming-liang. Lee stars as a man who lost everything in a stock market crash. Depressed, he resigns himself to growing pot in his former penthouse and growing increasingly obsessed with strippers, sexual fantasy, and a suicide hotline operator. In Mandarin with English Lee Kang-sheng---Taiwan---2007---103 mins.
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I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE
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Tsai Ming-liang's beautiful and almost nonverbal film about a love triangle in the slums of Kuala Lumpur. Rawang (Norman Atun), an immigrant squatting in a communal building, takes in a Chinese drifter named Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-Sheng), who he finds beaten in the street. A dreamlike eroticism develops and transforms into outright romance when Chyi (Chen Shang-Chyi), a lonely waitress, enters the picture. As was the case with Goodbye Dragon Inn, the director's tendencies toward minimalism and a static camera have the effect of amplifying character dynamics and the slapstick situations that surface. Nominated for the Golden Lion and Winner of the Cinema for Peace Award at the 2006 Venice Film Festival. Also known as Hei Yan Quan. In Chinese, Mandarin, Malay and Bengali with English subtitles. Tsai Ming-liang---Taiwan---2006---118 mins.
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I LOVE TAIPEI (TROPICAL FISH / DUST IN THE WIND / TERRORIZERS)
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A trio of Taiwanese films set in and around the capital city, Taipei. In the children's comedy Tropical Fish (Chen Yu-Hsun, Taiwan, 1985, 107 mins.), Zhi-Qiang is a slow middle school student who is more interested in video games, superheroes, and daydreaming than passing his high school entrance exams. As a result, adults chastise him and other kids bully him. One day, when he sees another student being abducted, he follows the captors, but gets kidnapped, himself. The two boys are then taken to a remote coastal village to await the ransom, which gives them plenty of time to study. Hou Hsiao-hsien's masterful film, Dust in the Wind (Taiwan, 1986, 109 mins.), follows a teenage couple forced to leave school and find work in the city. It's a heartbreaking story of lost love and the struggles of youth, marked by a great sympathy for its characters and a spare, unhurried style. "Conjuring lives from isolated moments, Hou evokes an entire culture. The kind of film that can make you weep for the frail beauty of the world" (John Powers, L.A. Weekly). In Terrorizers (The Terrorist, Edward Yang, Taiwan/Hong Kong, 1986, 90 mins.), a prank phone call to the home of a happily-married, budding novelist sparks suspicion and threatens to break up his marriage. When the couple separates, the distraught husband comes undone when he discovers the reason for his wife's sudden departure. Starring Cora Miao and Lee Lap Kwun.In Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese with optional English subtitles.
Chen Yu-Hsun/Hou Hsiao-hsien/Edward Yang---Taiwan/Hong Kong---1985/1986---109 mins.
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ISLAND ETUDE
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In this enchanting road movie from Taiwan, a deaf college student embarks on a week-long bike journey around the island, encountering all walks of life and the girl of his dreams. "A strikingly lensed portrait of the island that's 'experimental' in the best sense, blurring the line between documentary and fiction with hardly a trace of pretension" (Variety). In Mandarin with English subtitles.
En Chen---Taiwan---2006---108 mins.
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KING OF KINGS ( MARTIAL ARTS )
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A mysterious traveling swordsman kills the new security escort for the Imperial Governor. The now-orphaned children of the escort, witnesses to the slaying, separate and grow up, each vowing revenge against their father's killer, known to all as The Thunder Sword. In Taiwanese Chinese with English Joseph Kuo---Taiwan---1969---97 mins.
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LADY NINE FLOWER
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The Hwa Clan has gone through an agonizingly fierce battle, culminating in one of the brothers being murdered and the boss sent to the Green Dragon Prison. The deadly Lady Nine Flower won't take matters sitting down, however. Distressed at the challenge of rescuing the boss, she seeks out an old master and his prized student to help out, despite the Lady's unfavorable reputation. Masterful swordplay highlights this actioner from Taiwan. Dubbed in English. Cheung Fong Ha---Taiwan---1969---92 mins.
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LAST DAYS OF HSIN YANG
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A captive princess needs to be rescued and it's up to a rag-tag group of martial arts experts called the 13 Worms to find her. They may know about fighting, but they can also be rather dense, falling for double crosses and getting tangled up in mistaken identities in this comic, action-packed adventure. In Cantonese with English subtitles. Cheng Hou---Taiwan---1970---93 mins.
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LOST SWORDSHIP
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Lee Ga directs a Taiwanese samurai classic, based on Lung Ku's famous novel of the same name. Wang Ping and Roc Tien are skilled swordmsen who fight to defend their honor against scurrilous enemies. In Mandarin with English Blackie Ko/Hsieh Hsing---Taiwan---1977---93 mins.
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LOVE & SWORD
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Roc Tien plays a lethal assassin in this Taiwanese action epic by Lee Chia. Xiao Feng's (Tien) ability with the sword is known and feared throughout the land, even though the notorious killer wishes desperately to retire in peace. In English and Mandarin with English subtitles.
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MIAO MIAO
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Cheng Hsiao-tse's assured first feature is a cheery, quasi-gay romance set in Taipei City, Taiwan. Chang Yung-yung plays a teenage girl whose main concerns are slacking off in school and baking. Sadly, she's only good at the former. With the arrival of Miao Miao (Ke Jia-yan), a shy Japanese exchange student, the girls quickly bond, but are soon competing for the attention of a forlorn cool guy (Fan Chih-wei). "...plays more like a Sapphic love story (undeclared lesbian falls for straight girl) that's been toned down for a general audience than a teen romancer that's been juiced up with lesbian grace notes" (Variety). Nominated for two Asian Film Awards. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
Cheng Hsiao-tse---Hong Kong/Taiwan---2008---83 mins.
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MOST DISTANT COURSE, THE
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In this Taiwanese romance, a forlorn sound engineer goes around collecting field recordings and sending them to his ex-girlfriend. But a random girl has been intercepting them, and now she's in love with the mysterious sender.
Lin Jing-Jie---Taiwan---2007---114 mins.
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