Movies: Zhang Shi

The startling contrast between old and new Taiwan is the subject of Wan Jen's epic of traditional identities coming into conflict with an urban life, emphasizing the situation of women....

This is not a story about a loving grandmother....

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Cheng Chu and Cheng Lin are brothers, who grow up in a rather ill-off family. Chu later becomes a gang leader while Lin as a senior high student. Lin is under the pressure of college entrance exams and becomes restive. Ah-Chiang, Lin's boyhood friend...

Yan Su-jun is a wealthy young man who loves reading detective novels growing up. Just as he returns to Taiwan from abroad, he joins Tu Chi-ling's Jealous Detective Agency as an assistant. Sung Yi, the boss of a construction company, entrusts them wit...

Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a ...

The story of how a high school teacher overcomes all the problems and difficulties with problem students as well as other unfavorable circumstances in his teaching....

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Three Taiwanese friends go through political, romantic and cultural changes, from childhood to middle age....

Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival....

Xia-dou and Ji-dan left their families and friends in Thief Village to sit in a dungeon as subsitute prisoners in exchange for favor from the local law enforcer. The warden, knowing they are good in physical skills, sent them on a side job. The kids ...

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