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- A sadisitic landlord manipulates the lives of his tenants through a network of surveillance cameras installed throughout the building.
- A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river; his dysfunctional parents are unable to provide any relief for him or themselves.
- Four short films from four different directors, spanning from the 1950s to the 1980s.
- This film tells of a woman's never-ending struggle to keep herself and her family fed and clothed.
- Liu befriends an Englishman bringing cinema to Beijing. Their modern interests conflict with traditions, Liu's father, and Liu's love for Ling. They navigate screening films for the Empress Dowager while balancing progress and customs.
- Two best friends So-so and Nancy are love-struck by the same handsome Japanese boy who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies.
- A battalion of Chinese soldiers defend the Sihang (4 Bank) warehouse from the invading Japanese army in 1937 at the end of the Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. There are only 452 defenders, but to mislead the Japanese they tell the outside world that they are 800 in number. Their heroism leads to them becoming known as the 800 Heroes.
- A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.
- Three consecutive seasons at an ecological summer camp.
- It's the 10th century BC, the emperor is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist "Immortal Li" are in reality only making him worse.
- A soldier from Mainland China arrives at Hong Kong to look for his estranged sister and finds out that she has been forced into prostitution by a criminal organization.
- A girl, who was sold by her stepfather at the age of 14, has had been a prostitute for 14 years. Her family, despite enjoying a comfortable life with her help, avoids her. She thus decides to have a son of her own and succeeds by sheer determination. She is now hopeful that her son will have a life better than hers.
- An anthology of 3 short films about a Hong Kong car mechanic, a Chinese man who is released from a labor camp and a struggling Taiwanese restaurant owner. The one thing that they all have in common is that they have the name Ah Fu.
- Jack of Spade, Min-Jay, and Camel are best friends from the same elementary school. Jack of Spade is spoiled by his wealthy family, Camel is fiercely working class, and Min-Jay is so nervously shy about his poor background, he almost quit school if it weren't for the help of his buddies. During Highschool, the three fell for the same girls: Black Skin & White Fang. However, they have difficulty communicating their feelings, so they daydream and pass around love letters. After Highschool, the three went separate ways. Min-Jay became a cop, while Jack of Spade became a gambler and lived off his prostitute wife: White Fang. Camel, on the other hand, has became a most wanted gangster after a life of crime. Min-Jay, now a cop, has been ordered to capture Camel but is torn between his best friend and his duty.
- Fake ghosts haunt a murderer, until he is driven mad and accidentally kills his own sister.
- It's the year 1999, Hei-shu (Kuroki), a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band, performing at funerals and weddings. One day, Hei-shu's cat is missing. He later suspects that the cat has turned into a woman called Yokulut. Hei-shu is a, so called, "Japanese Culture Buff". He believes that he was Japanese in his previous life and was named "Tesuo" (the character from a very popular Japanese cartoon). Hei-shu is obsessed with Gao Ya-qi, a a female news anchor. He shares a special world with Gao. From time to time, Gao talks to him personally on the TV screen. Later, she also warns Hei-shu better to keep his job. Otherwise, he might be one of the targets of the government's conspiracy - to terminate worthless individuals, especially the unemployed ones. The irony is that no one in the band can play any musical instruments.... On the eve of the millennium new year, every secret seems to have a different key to its mysteries...
- A 12-year-old girl's dilemma between a friendship and a possible future.
- Fong, a Taiwanese woman has relocated to Canada with her husband Kwok. Fong suspects that Kowk is cheating on her on his regular business trips to Taiwan.
- Two swordsmen undertake the task of escorting a noble woman up country and across very harsh terrain. During the time they spend together the two swordsmen start falling for the woman and they start to resent each other. However, a common enemy helps fix the broken bond between them. From Taiwan a first class award winning swordplay film.
- A clever and lively girl who gets lost in the world of radio drama runs away from home to search for her imaginary mother. A scoundrel claims to be the girl's father to escape from police. They encounter two women in the mountains: one is tortured by her workaholic husband who engages madly in his scientific research, the other is a pure and naive girl living in the mountains. Typhoon is now coming.
- Gen. Cheng Tsu-chung, the "Mars of China", is held in high esteem by his Japanese counterpart, General Itagaki during Sino-Japanese war.
- At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Qiu Jin was introduced to the revolutionary Xu Xilin by her friend Wu Zhiying. At this time, Qiu Jin was married to Wang Tingjun and had two children. Qiu Jin insisted on dedicating herself to the revolution, but her husband did not understand her. Qiu Jin could only Leaving home to study in Japan. In 1907, Qiu Jin founded the China Women's Newspaper in Shanghai, and Xu Xilin founded the Datong School in Shaoxing. He invited Qiu Jin to go there and asked her to cover the arms shipped from Shanghai to Zhejiang. Xu Xilin expressed his love to Qiu Jin, but Qiu Jin rejected Xu Xilin because of the country's priority. Soon, Xu Xilin arrived in Anhui due to preparations for the uprising. He planned to kill honest officials at the graduation ceremony of the police school, but unfortunately he was surrounded by the Qing army. Qiu Jin was very sad after receiving the blood letter written by him in prison. At this time, Zhang Zengjing, the governor of Zhejiang, sent troops to encircle Datong School. Qiu Jin was determined to coexist with the school and was captured by the Qing army. On June 5, 1907, Qiu Jin died generously.
- Nara, Japan, A.D. 763. In Toshodai Temple, Chinese Buddhist Master the Venerable Jian Zhen dies, aged 76, after nine years in Japan. His Japanese disciple Si Tuo remembers how in 733 he and another monk were sent to China to learn from Buddhist scriptures there and to try and convince Jian Zhen to come to Japan with other Chinese monks to develop and purify Buddhism in their country. After 10 years they finally get to meet Jian Zhen at Daming Temple in Yangzhou and persuade him to travel to Japan. Jian Zhen chooses 17 other Chinese monks to accompany him, but one, Ru Hai, betrays their secret mission to the Chinese authorities. Later that year, in December 743, Jian Zhen and Co. set out again but are shipwrecked off the coast of Zhejiang, where monks inform on them and they are arrested by the Chinese authorities to keep Jian Zhen in the country. Next, Jian Zhen and Co. try to cross the mountains in winter to Fuzhou and charter a ship from there, but are again caught by the authorities. Three years later, in June 748, they make their fifth attempt, even though Jian Zhen's eyesight is now failing, but are swept south by a storm to Zhenzhou, where they are almost killed by fierce natives but are finally welcomed by a Zhenzhou dignitary and given an old temple to renovate. In 751 they set out for the sixth time via Yangzhou, where a Japanese ambassador, Fujiwara, finally smuggles them out on a ship. In December 753 Jian Zhen and his monks reach Japan, where they are presented with their own temple in Nara.
- A Canadian writer and a Taiwanese pregnant teenager meet in a village in the east coast of Taiwan.