94 Films & TV Shows Set In Taiwan
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Attabu 2
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe film documents the rise and fall of the Wufeng Lin family in Wufeng, Taiwan over the turbulent years of Taiwan under the administrations of the Qing dynasty, Japan, and Republic of China.
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Lucy
New York England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 2010s The 19th CenturyThe average person uses 10% of their brain capacity. Imagine what she could do with 100%. โ A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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Kano
๐น๐ผ Taiwan ๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1930sA Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
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Paradise in Service
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1970s The 1960sSet in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because itโs geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service" follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in preparation for a war that could erupt anytime. Through an unlucky lottery draw result, Pao, a twenty-something young man from Southern Taiwan has to serve the military in the remote and perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB), a unit noted for the toughest physical training. It never occurs to Pao, however, that the greatest challenge in his military service lies not in the Sea Dragon but in Unit 831, a special task he is later appointed toโฆ In this peculiar assignment, Pao vows to keep his virginity against all odds.
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The Rooftop
๐น๐ผ TaiwanWax and his friends are the happiest kids in the city of Galilee. Living on the rooftops of this bustling metropolis, sometimes life can be tough, but they still churn out songs all day, and dance under the stars at night. But when Wax meets his dream girl, a billboard beauty named Starling, fate takes him on a wild ride through the high and low parts of the town he loves.
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Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast
๐น๐ผ TaiwanMore than 20 years ago, there were three โBan Dou(street banquet)โ master chefs who dominated the catering business in Taiwan. However, the street banquet business has been in decline since Taiwanโs economic boom. Master Fly Spirit wants to pass the family recipes and culinary skills on to his only child, Wan, but she desperately wants to run away from the family business and to become a film star.
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Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above
๐น๐ผ TaiwanDocumenting Taiwan from an aerial perspective offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and urbanization on our environment.
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Cha Cha for Twins
๐น๐ผ TaiwanPoni and Mini are identical twins. They look so much alike that even their secret admirers cannot tell them apart and people tend to forget that they are individuals.
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1930sA man rises up to lead his people in a brave and risky struggle for freedom in this epic-scale historical drama. โ Mouna Rudo was born and raised among the Seediq people, an indigenous tribe in Taiwan, and as he grew to be a man he became a member of the Seediq Bale, a courageous band of native warriors. However, Rudo's way of life is threatened under the yoke of occupying forces from Japan, who took over the nation in 1895. As Rudo sees the traditions and honor of his people stripped away, he realizes the time has come to fight back, and in 1930 he brings together a group of former Seediq Bale soldiers, many of whom have been reduced to infighting, and molds them into a revolutionary army. Rudo and his comrades make their stand when they confront Japanese occupation troops at a youth athletic event, leading to a violent confrontation between the Seediq forces and their oppressors. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag is Part one of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.
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Monga
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1980sSet in the 1980s, โMongaโ centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into conflict with other gangs jealous of their rising power.
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Au Revoir Taipei
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 2000sKai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia boss offers Kai a free plane ticket to Paris if he takes a mysterious package with him.
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Formosa Betrayed
Illinois ๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1980sIn the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. His investigation takes him across the Pacific to the island nation of Taiwan, where with the help of the outspoken widow and an unlikely spy, he learns that the Professor's killing was not a random act, but a desperate move by a scandalous government intent on keeping its nefarious activities under wraps. Our detective soon finds himself on a collision course against the U.S. State Department, the Chinese Mafia, and the Nationalist Chinese Government - in a land where the truth is not what it seems and the only people he can trust, cannot be trusted at all. Inspired by actual events.
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Pinoy Sunday
๐น๐ผ Taiwan ๐ต๐ญ PhilippinesThe discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for - Filipino guest workers - Manuel and Dado.
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Somewhere I Have Never Travelled
๐น๐ผ TaiwanOnly one love. Only one take. And then what? โ The lives of and relationship between two teens, a high school-aged boy and his younger niece.
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Prince of Tears
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1950sA shameful period in Taiwanese history provides the backdrop for this emotional drama from writer and director Yonfan (aka Yang Fan). In 1949, in the wake of the 228 Incident (in which anti-government protesters launched a rebellion that was violently put down by authorities), Taiwan came under martial law, and through much of the 1950s brutal reprisals against suspected communists were commonplace. During the years of the "White Terror," thousand of supposed dissidents were killed, imprisoned or simply disappeared at the hands of the military police.
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Snowfall in Taipei
๐น๐ผ TaiwanMay, a woman singer from the mainland of China, suddenly loses her voice and has conflicts with Ah Lei, her producer and secret lover. In anger she goes to Old Town of Jingtong where she meets Xiao Mo, a warmhearted man. Xia Mo helps May find a place to stay, and finds her work at local restaurant. May finds happiness and consolation in the old streets of the small town, and her voice gets better and better.
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What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?!
๐น๐ผ TaiwanDoze runs into many problems as he tries to secure funding for what he thinks will be the next mockumentary blockbuster.
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Winds of September
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1990sLin Shu-Yu's semi auto-biographical debut takes us back to 1996, during the time of the tragic Taiwan baseball scandal, an event that devastated many teenage boys. The story follows Yen and Tang and their gang through the last year of their high school life. From chasing girls to midnight skinny dipping to rooting for their favorite baseball team, they do everything together. When an accident throws Yen into a coma, their world starts falling apart.
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The Drummer
๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐น๐ผ TaiwanWhen Sid insults a powerful triad boss, his father sends him to Taiwan for safety. Bored and restless, he discovers a community of Zen drummers high in the hills, and joins up - a decision inspired by a pretty face that soon becomes a challenge.
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Eternal Summer
๐น๐ผ TaiwanNo One Wishes To Be Lonely, Neither Do We. โ Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chenโs sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
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Go! Go! G-Boys
๐น๐ผ TaiwanShin and Hung are close friends, but gradually Shin starts to have feelings for Hung. Hung decides to join a gay beauty contest in order to win USD 300,000 to pay his girlfriend's credit card debt. At the same time, an anti-gay cop, Jay, pretends to be gay and joins the contest to investigate a possible crime by an anti-gay group
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Three Times
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1960s The 1910s The 2000sThere are three stories of women and men: in "A Time for Love" set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; "A Time for Freedom," set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer's longing to escape her surroundings; in "A Time for Youth" set in 2005 Taipei, a triangle in which a singer has an affair with a photographer while her partner suffers is dramatized. In the first two stories, letters are crucial to the outcome; in the third, it's cell-phone calls, text messages, and a computer file. Over the years between the tales, as sexual intimacy becomes more likely and words more free, communication recedes.
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The Wayward Cloud
๐น๐ผ TaiwanHsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
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Blue Cha Cha
๐น๐ผ TaiwanJust coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different characters from each other. One is a businessman, charming and mature; the other is a young supervisor in a factory with a promising future. But these two loves are short-lived, fading away like bubbles on the beach. With a wounded soul, she went back to the cottage owned by Sister An, a friend from jail.
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Life Express
Beijing ๐น๐ผ TaiwanForeign - A child dying of leukemia needs a bone marrow transplant immediately. With only 24 hours, the doctors must fight the usual red tape bureaucracy and political obstacles in order to retrieve the marrow and carry out the transplant before time runs out.
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