Synopsis Seven days to the twenty-first century. Somewhere in Taiwan, the rain won’t let up, A mysterious disease reaches epidemic proportions. The government demands a massive transfer our of the quarantine zone. But some residents still refuse to move away. In a run-down public housing building, a man is awakened from a nap by the doorbell. A plumber has been sent by the downstairs neighbor, who has been complaining of a leak. The plumber doesn’t solve the problem, but does leave a sizeable hole in the middle of the man’s living room. The man doesn’t mind the hole much. In fact, he finds the hole useful for learning about his downstairs neighbor, a woman who stockpiles toilet paper. He quickly becomes fascinated by her to the point that he doesn’t want the plumber to come back. Then comes the fatal day when his neighbor develops the symptoms of the mysterious disease…A love story for the millennium.
Casting: Na TANG、Eli-Na SHIH、Ching-Hsin CHEN、Hui-Jen LIAO
Synopsis 1. Ah-Sheng is a baker. Homely and awkward, the only bright spot in his dull life is nervously observing Li-Hua, once his best friend in elementary school, now a beautiful young woman who buys lemon pies at his bakery everyday but doesn’t recognize him. He is tormented over whether and how to let her kown that even after she mysteriously disappeared one day when they were young, he has never forgotten her and her friendship. He finally decides to participate in a televised singing competition to give the performance of his life. 2. Fat Sis is a typist whose head is filled with gossip and shopping. One day she finds a beeper and takes it home. Consumed with curiosity, she finally calls the person who keeps paging her and discovers a sexy male voice at the other end. Much telephone flirtation follows until Remeo insists on meeting in person, subjecting a frantic Fat Sis to two weeks of weight-loss hell. The day arrives, and clad in her best and brightest, she waits expectantly for her knight in shining armor. 3. Ah-Sung is a reluctant door-to-door salesman. Young and insecure, he goes to Li-Hua’s beauty salon to sell his wares and ends up getting a haircut because he is too tongue-tied to start his sales pitch. Suddenly, a crazed customer attacks Li-Hua, intent on killing her for having an affair with her husband. Ah-Sung saves the day, and he and Li-Hua escape up to the roof, where they end up spending a wordless afternoon together, two strangers taking comfort in their mutual isolation. This is a movie about the heartbreak and humor of falling in love, falling in like, and the general chaos that hits our lives when we do, regardless of age, beauty or waistline.
Casting: Shin TIEN、Chia-Lin PARNG、Hsing-Wen LI、Geng-Hung LIU
Synopsis The army: a stronghold of manliness, a symbol of machismo. But out of nowhere comes a group of female students from colleges across the country to grace the military camp at Cheng Gong Ling with their presence. They have arrived ready to face what will be the first military experience of their lives-and likely their last. Donning military uniforms doesn’t mean losing their femininity, of course. This fact, in the fact of the rigid rules and exacting demands of their team leader, results in a variety of hilarious situations. Meanwhile, the women continue to strive to meet military requirements, one by one cutting short their long hair and eventually making it through by mutual encouragement and support. In the end, they manage to survive the ultimate test; a battlefield simulation. After this moving display of cooperation, even the army officers start looking at them in a different light. When training is over, they must return their equipment and go back to their normal lives. But changing back into civilian clothes doesn’t mean changing back into their civilian selves; the women find that they still retain remnants of their military habits. Even as they reluctantly wave goodbye to each other and part ways, each of them knows that this brief period of time in their lives will undoubtedly also be the most memorable.
Synopsis Xia-dou and Ji-dan left their families and friends in Thief Village to sit in a dungeon as substitute 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 broke in a heavily guarded examination ground, swapped two exam papers for the client and stole a pair of golden eyes from a big lion chop for themselves. The missing gold detoured the detective’s trail to the master schemer. As the conspiracy unfolded, the governor decided to eradicate the whole village to cover up his involvement with the master schemer. Life in Thief Village has never been easy. But fate never mocked them so hard. It turned out that the gold they so cherished was fake. So were many other things they believed in. In despair, Xia-dou’s great grandfather, the 125-year old personage called upon the sky and received a most fantastic answer.
