Osmanthus Alley
Ti Hung's parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to rise from her poverty. She becomes famous for her embroidery and eventually marries into a rich family, but tragedy ensues.
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Also Directed by Chen Kun-Hou
Bi Bao-Liang is a 29 year-old man who believes that he will have bad luck if he touches a woman before he turns thirty. Liu Xiang-mei is a beautiful woman who had a love affair with her married boss, and now she is pregnant. In order to give her child a family name, she decides to find a man to have a one-year marriage contract. Bi Bao-Liang is the perfect man she is looking for because he is afraid of women. However, their marriage does not follow what they've planned...
When reaching the station a soul is told he has won another chance at life. He is placed in the body of 14 year old Makoto Kobayashi, who just committed suicide. He is watched over by a spirit named purapura. The soul is granted with the task of discovering the greatest sin he committed before time runs out.
Longing. A taiwanese film directed by Kun-Hou Chen and written by Hsiao-Hsien Hou.
Growing Up was the film that "first attracted broad critical and popular attention to the movement" known as New Taiwan Cinema. It "established some of the movement's key stylistic approaches and narrative concerns, with its subdued manner in relating the story of an adolescent boy grappling with everyday pangs amid Taiwan's fraught provincial context."
A brothel disguised as a teahouse is staffed with old ladies long past their prime. However, things begin to change and become chaotic when the owner takes in a young girl.
Chao Ta-jung and Yuan-yuan met at the seashore by chance. Ta-jung was impressed with Yuan-yuan's compassion towards those who were less unfortunate even though she had given him a hard time. They soon fell in love and decided to get married but due to Yuan-yuan's heart problem, there is a possibility that she may not conceive.
Kenny Bee plays a saxophonist who works in a night club. Fang Hui-jang is the oldest sister in a four-child family whose father is working abroad. They are forced to live together in a house because they are fooled by a cheater who pretends to be the owner of the house they rent and runs away after taking both their rents. This love comedy begins after this couple lives together. —Anonymous
A boy fell in love with a girl, then the girl left. Years later, the boy found that he is a father now.
This is a story located in a small town in Taiwan during the 50's and 60's. Mei-Xia is from the most prominent family in town. Yun-Lang works in the local peasant assocation. They like each other, but Mei-Xia is afraid to tell her mother about their seeing each other. They wait till Yun-Lang sends a matchmaker to Mei-Xia's family. There was no way that Mei-Xia's family would agree to their marriage. Mei-Xia's parents send her to a relative in the northeast of Keelung, in an attempt to stop them from seeing each other, but Yun-Lang follows her there. Mei-Xia's relative doesn't stop them until Mei-Xia's mother finds out. Now their love is an open affair. This time, it's the Mei-Xias turn to propose a marriage between the two families. To everyone's surprise, the Yun-Langs turn it down. Mei-Xia and Yun-Lang planned to elope, but they failed. She kills herself. At last, Yun-Lang can call Mei-Xia his wife by marring her memorial tablet.
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