Trials and tribulations beset a Taiwanese family of four in Chung Mong-hong’s intimate and grounded work, one that is blessed with exceptional performances throughout.
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Sun, A (2019)
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Hole, The (1998)
An exceptional if bleak drama with musical interludes, Tsai’s prescient work explores a virus epidemic and severe climate change hitting Taiwan—his style is still unmistakable and, best of all, he finds new levels of miserabilist humour.
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Storm Over the Yangtze River (1969)
A somewhat convoluted but still intriguing Chinese spy mystery set during WWII as agents and double agents conspire to accelerate or derail Japanese progress in the war.
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Hsi Shih: Beauty of Beauties (1965)
A sprawling historical epic set during China’s Warring States period as one king oppresses another king and his people—there’s a sense of tragic grandiosity to the overwrought melodrama while this shorter restored version is still too long.
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Cheerful Wind (1981)
A light-hearted Taiwanese romance starring Feng Fei Fei that sees Hou dabbling in commercial genre cinema early on in his career—there’s little in the way of depth but it is still moderately entertaining.
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Pinoy Sunday (2009)
Not dull, but also not memorable, Ho’s debut feature sparkles at times but also disappoints.
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Terrorizers (2021)
Ho Wi Ding’s new feature, a seemingly complex intersecting lives psychological drama, tackles without moral judgment the desires of young Taiwanese adults who are desperate for intimacy and connection.
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Darkness and Light (1999)
This is a superb early work from Chang Tso-chi, focusing on a family whose members are mostly visually-impaired, and shot in a poetic, dreamy style that accumulates emotional power by the end.
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Synapses (2019)
There’s something elusively poetic about this dementia drama from Chang Tso-chi that elevates it into rich yet nuanced work about a fractured family’s relational dynamics in flux.
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Thanatos, Drunk (2015)
A layered, non-linear Taiwanese LGBT drama centering on the outsiders of society—their lives, struggles, and tragedies.
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Eternality Tan 