Taiwan

10 Asian Films about Weddings

Your wedding day should be one of the happiest days of your life, yet it can also be one of the most stressful. From the months of planning, to interfering… Read More
Stand By Me

Following a series of supporting turns in films such as The Hangover Part II, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Who Killed Cock Robin , American-born Taiwanese actor Mason Lee… Read More
10 Asian Films About Growing Up and Getting Old

Cinema is filled with stories about journeys, and none more so than the long, slow march towards death that each of us must travel. Ageing and mortality are inevitable facts… Read More
Fall in Love at First Kiss

With Fall in Love at First Kiss, Taiwanese TV veteran Frankie Chen Yu-shan follows up the success of her feature film debut Our Times with another fanciful tale of adolescent… Read More
10 biggest Asian snubs for Best Foreign Language Oscar of the last decade

This weekend, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma will make Oscars history if it becomes the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Should it do so, the Oscar… Read More
Ten Years Taiwan

Following the success of controversial Hong Kong anthology Ten Years, similar offerings from Japan, Thailand and now Taiwan have been produced, with upcoming filmmakers speculating on the fate of their… Read More
5 Classic Asian Terminal Illness Romances

More Than Blue, the Taiwanese remake of the 2009 South Korean tear-jerker, is sending audiences reaching for the Kleenex once again. It stars Jasper Liu Yi-hao as a young man… Read More
More Than Blue

While it is a faithful remake of the 2009 South Korean hit of the same name, More Than Blue from Taiwanese director Gavin Lin Hsiao-chien is also yet another frustrating… Read More
Cities of Last Things

Ho Wi Ding’s noir-tinged triptych details three nights in the life of troubled Taiwan police detective Zhang Dong Ling, as his turbulent personal life repeatedly triggers eruptions of murderous violence.… Read More
Secrets in the Hot Spring

Taiwanese horror comedy Secrets in the Hot Spring proves an invigorating summer treat, thanks to lively direction from first-timer Lin Kuan-hui and winning chemistry between the film’s trio of heartthrob… Read More
On Happiness Road

First-time director Sung Hsin-yin reviews the last 40 years of Taiwanese history in her tender yet powerful animated debut, in which an Americanised young woman returns home following the death… Read More
Turn Around

The devastating impact of Taiwan’s 921 earthquake, which ravaged Nantou County in 1999, is relived through the eyes of rural schoolchildren and the despondent teacher who rallied to their aid.… Read More
A Foley Artist

Documentaries about filmmakers and the filmmaking process remain very much a niche offering, even when focusing on the biggest names in the industry. Wang Wan-jo’s film hones in on Taiwanese… Read More
The Great Buddha+

The debut feature from Taiwanese documentarian Huang Hsin-yao is an acerbic satire of small-town corruption that has earned awards attention, including 10 nominations (one for best picture) at this month’s… Read More
Mon Mon Mon Monsters

Taiwanese writer-director Giddens Ko Ching-teng follows up his smash-hit debut You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011) with a considerably darker beast. While his second directing effort also takes… Read More
Who Killed Cock Robin

Taiwanese director Cheng Wei-hao follows up his supernatural horror film The Tag-Along with the story of a disgraced journalist attempting to solve a forgotten hit-and-run case. Read my review Read More
The Tenants Downstairs

Adapted by Taiwanese author turned filmmaker Giddens Ko Ching-teng from his own novel, The Tenants Downstairs ventures into far darker territory than his blockbuster teen flick You Are the Apple… Read More
Panay

In the wake of critically and commercially successful Taiwanese films such as Wei Te-sheng’s period war epic Seediq Bale (2011) and Umin Boya’s feel-good baseball drama Kano (2014), there are… Read More