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The Personals
Year of Production: 1998
Director: Kuo-Fu CHEN
Casting: Rene LIU、Doze NIU、Chao-Jong CHEN、Yi-Nan SHI
Synopsis
Jia-Chen Du has placed an ad in the personals seeking a marriage partnen Short, sweet, and to the point. The ad says. “First friendship then marriage. Serious applicants only.”
So she places the ad-and what follows is a parade of weirdos from all walks of life. Young, old. Betel-nut-chewing, tie-sporting, women dressed as men, men acting like high schoolers—you name it, they appear on her doorstep.
Based on a popular stage play, this comedy takes a close look at the agonizing process of seeking love and what one often ends up finding instead of it.

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Cop Abula
Year of Production: 1999
Director: Khan LEE
Casting: Blacky KO、Lily-YU、Chen-Nan TSAI、Jeff CHEN、Chung-Kun HUANG
Synopsis
In the criminal cases department of a police station somewhere in Taipei is Abula, a department head straight as an arrow and enemy of all who find themselves on the wrong side of the law. His rebellious teenage son, Ali, is constantly at odds with him.
Abula falls in love with Ching, a pregnant, unwed illegal immigrant caught by the authorities trying to enter Taiwan.
She has her baby, and although Ching herself is repatriated to China, Abula helps her to find adoptive parents for the child.
Meanwhile, Ali’s girlfriend is beaten and raped by triad members. In a rage, Ali goes out seeking revenge but barely escapes with his life, rescued by one of Abula’s colleagues.
Faced with the triads’ arrogance in the face of the law and the loss of Ching, Abula decides that the only way to uphold truth and justice is to fight evil with evil, violence with violence.
As a result, a final bloody battle is about to take place…

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A Drifting Life
Year of Production: 1995
Director: Cheng-Sheng LIN
Casting: Kang-Sheng LEE、Vicky WEI、Yu-Wen WANG、Grace CHEN
Synopsis
The film, with a half-documentary style, offers a picture of the people lived in the village and their lives in the earlier 50’s Taiwan women-mourned for their sorrowful lives for being a wife and a mother. Women have to be obedient to their father & mother-in-law; women have to nurse their children. However, men-must be a “man.” Instead of living in a stable life, he would rather go after a vagabond existence, pursue love outside his hometown, and release himself for freedom, even he lost his wife. An extraordinary film portrayed three generations of women’s lives in Taiwan.

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The River
Year of Production: 1997
Director: Ming-Liang TSAI
Casting: Kang-Shen LEE、Tien MIAO、Hsiao-Ling LU、Chao-Jung CHEN、Shiang-Chyi CHEN
Synopsis
In a Taipei apartment live Xiao-Kang and his parents.
Each leads a separate life. The mother has a lover. Xiao-Kang has his own tryouts. The father pursues a solitary quest for illicit pleasures in the city’s gay saunas. They live together, but are miles apart.
As an extra in a TV commercial, Xiao-Kang plays a body adrift in a dirty river. Ever since, an insufferable pains in his neck troubles him. Soon, the pains grows and dominates his life, physically and mentally. Meanwhile, the ceiling of his father’s room starts leaking……
Accompanied by his father, Xiao-Kang travels for seeking to ease his growing pains. His mother is left alone in Taipei to tackle the leak……The sickness and the leaks, are they the beginning or the end of an erosion of this family?

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Murmur Of Youth
Year of Production: 1997
Director: Cheng-Sheng LIN
Casting: Rene LIU、Chin CHANG
Synopsis
Two girls both named “Mei Li” who live their own drifting aimleasly life.
One day, the creato let them come across and know closely in the ticket booth which marked “No Admittance”
Finally, they find the love and enjoy their life experiences each other.

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Accidental Legend
Year of Production: 1995
Director: Shaudi WANG
Casting: Doze NIU、Rene LIU、Shih CHANG
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.

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Trust Me,You Cain Make It!
Year of Production: 1997
Director: Bor-Shen LIN
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.

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Tonight Nobody Goes Home
Year of Production: 1996
Director: Sylvia CHANG
Casting: Hsiung LUNG、Ya-Lei GUEI、Rene LIU、Kuei-Mei YANG
Synopsis
We all know that yawning is contagious, but to the Chen family, contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair.
Mr. Chen is sixty years old, but still physically fit and full of charisma. He wants to be able to experience the vitality of a burning passion for one last once.
The extra-familial affair is discovered……
The son is too busy to take heed of his father’s escapade and brushes it off as the common nature of men.
The daughter has always viewed her parents as the ideal couple and her father’s affair has shattered all her confidence in the marriage system. And Mrs. Chen demands a divorce.
Each member of the Chen family embarks on his or her own journey and the extra-familial affairs begin, each as glorious as the other……

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Lonely Hearts Club
Year of Production: 1995
Director: Chih-YEN YEE
Casting: Bin-Bin PAI、Kuei-Mei YANG、Hsien-Tang YANG、Neil FENG、I-Chun PAN
Synopsis
Ms. Chen is a middle-aged working housewife not unlike most Taipei women of her status. She has a teen-aged daughter whose insolence lies in her preoccupation with her English professor and a husband who seeks excitement in liaisons with their next-door neighbor. Adding to her list of concerns is Chen’s purportedly senile mother-in-law, a silly old woman who needs attention more than supervision. Chen’s life is sheer drudgery until the day she meets Long, a young office boy with a coy smile and a discreet gay preference. Spurred by her colleague Miss Lin, who is immediately attracted to Long, Chen also casts her hopes for romantic escape on this new office boy. As the hopelessness of her infatuation appears clearer and clearer to th audience, her desperate attempts to come to grips with her last chance to escape from a woman’s destiny become more and more comically tragic.

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Red Persimmon
Year of Production: 1995
Director: Tung WANG
Casting: Su TAO、Jang WONG、Jun SHIH、Shih CHANG
Synopsis
Veteran director Wang Tong of STRAWMAN, HILLS OF NO RETURN, continues his exploration of one of the key themes in Taiwanese cinema : the trauma caused by the country’s separation from Mainland China. RED PERSIMMON follows a family struggle to survive on a new land. It’s the director’s autobiographic work.
The story comes from director’s real-life grandmother. Grandmother leads a team of grandchildren immigrating from china to Taiwan in the 40s, setting down, making a difficult transition, and then bringing up the kids. Three days before the Wang Family was to make their escape from the mainland, the grandmother hid in a closet, claiming that she did not want to leave behind her beloved persimmon tree.
The scenes of the film come straight from Wang’s own childhood, right down to the scene where the grandmother ties her ten children together with rope so that they would not get lost. Though Wang’s family lived a comfortable life in China, they lost everything when they came to Taiwan : their houses, their savings, and their land.
The film focuses on the relationship between the strong grandmother and her ten grandsons as they adjust to life in an entirely new world.

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In A Strange City
Year of Production: 1994
Director: Chi YIN
Casting: Winston CHAO、Kuei-Mei YANG
Synopsis
Yu Jane, a high school teacher and Xiang Guo-Chen, a successful industrialist, are secretly baving an affair outside of his marriage. Xiang is on his way to a political career. His campaign advisor wants him to break off his relationship with Yu so to present himself as a candidate with an untarnished image.
Xiang arranges to meet Yu at a distant city for the last time. Being away from their normal environment, the two are free to enjoy each other’s love and passion more than ever. The affair thus continues and the strange city subsequently becomes their regular, rendezvous.
Every time Yu Jane visits the city, is foreibly reminds her of her brother who died in a foreign country. Also, being able to see the innocent side of Xiang in the strange city somehow confuses her.
Yang Dan-Zi, a troubled student in Yu Jane’s class, gains Yu’s curiosity and sympathy with her unusual background and personality. Yu feels she can relate to Yang in many circumstances.
Nan-nan, Yu’s best friend, tries to talk Yu into investing in her herbal medicine business. Jimmy, Nan-nan’s new boyfriend and a rising pop singer, reads Yu as a romantic and becomes fond of her. Before long, Jimmy tells Yu that Nan-nan has fled the country with all the investment money, which Yu jane finds in hard to believe.
Xiang is shot and wounded during his campaign rally. It soon becomes a media frenzy. Yu Jane, finding herself pregnant, pays a visit at Xing’s residence, where she discovers that the shooting incident was a conspiracy as part of Xiang’s campaign stretagy. Yu Jane then realizes her relationship with Xiang is also a sham.
Yu Jane is suddenly notified of Yang Dan-Zi’s suicide. She is shocked and saddened by this occurrence. While Xiang is being blackmailed by the mobsters who contributed to his conspiracy. Yu Jane is going throught her abortion in a clinic. Under sedetion, she is lost in the reminiscence of the days and nights in that far away strange city.

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The Peony Pavilion
Year of Production: 1994
Director: Kuo-Fu CHEN
Casting: Rene LIU、Ben-Yu CHANG、Shin TIEN
Synopsis
The original story from which this film draws its inspiration is a four hundred-year-old classical Chinese opera called “The Peony Pavilion” (also known as “The Resurrection”). A metaphor on the closed nature of Chinese and Chinese society, this is a tale of an offical’s daughter whose cloistered life within the family estate leaves her little knowledge of the outside world. Her maidservant tells her one day of a beautiful garden behind the estate. Though at first she tries to disregard this information, believing her duty is to think only of her studies, the girl finds herself thinking more about this place and eventually asks her maid to take her there.
The girl has never known of the garder’s existence even though it lies just behind her house and she finds herself happily ensconced in the tranquil beauty of the place. When she returns home, she sleeps and dreams that she is back in the pavilion of the garden being made love to by a young scholar she has never met before, either in the dream or real life. Upon waking, she finds her mind cannot return to reality and she dies still obsessed by her vision of the world inside her dream. In her next life, she comes back to find the young scholar and the two are finally united.
The difficulty of portraying such a tale on its own is that the style and unique language of the drama, drawn as it is from classical Chinese literature, makes it practically inaccessible to a modern Chinese audience. But there is much in the story—the Chinese concept of love and personal freedom—that has relevance today. In adapting it to film, then, the original is used as a parallel discourse to a modern story.
The modern story is of two women who are unknown to one another but who both dream of the Peony Pavilion in the classic tale. In their common dream, one of the women takes the role of the girl, the other dreams she is the scholar. Both women are bound by the restrictions of their daily lives and have known disillusionment and disappointment in love; only in their dream do they find a truly romantic and sensible world in which they have the freedom to be themselves.

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