Cinema of Taiwan

The Cinema of Taiwan is deeply rooted in the island's unique history. Since its introduction to Taiwan in 1901 under Japanese rule, cinema has developed in Taiwan through several distinct stages. It has also developed outside of the Hong Kong mainstream and the censorship of the People's Republic of China.

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Taiwanese Directors

In recent years, Taiwan's film industry has been supported by a group of internationally respected filmmakers. Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang have built solid positions as Taiwanese directors. In addition, the Malaysian-Chinese Tsai Ming-liang has gained the world's attention as a Taiwanese director.

Though a number of Taiwanese directors have chosen to explore themes of nostalgia and historical memory, Tsai Ming-liang has focussed his feature films on the lives of urban men and women. Rebels of the Neon God observed the empty life of young people, while Vive L'Amour touched on lonely urban men and women licking each other's wounds. Tsai's film gives a feeling of a modern fable, but it is at times difficult to understand.

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SPEAK UP: ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘The Pig’ top annual box office (2/2) 《腦2》、《周處》登年度冠軍(下)

Taipei Times 09 Jan 2025
Like Father, Like Son” was the only Taiwanese movie among the top 10 blockbusters, which included five animated films ... The figure was five times higher than that of the best-selling film in Taiwan.
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Watch Secret: Untold Melody trailer; EXO’s D.O., Won Jin Ah and Shin Ye Eun’s complicated love triangle faces trials

Pinkvilla 09 Jan 2025
Check it out inside. By ... Watch Secret ... share ... Untold Melody is an upcoming South Korean film that is the Korean remake of the Taiwanese movie Secret ... The film's plot follows an injured pianist who unexpectedly forms a romantic relationship with a woman ... .
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China box office falls 23% to $5.8bn in 2024

Screen Daily 06 Jan 2025
A total of 501 films were released (425 local and 76 foreign titles), comparable to 512 titles in 2023 ... Wong Ching Po’s became the second biggest Taiwanese film of all time, taking $90.9m (RMB665m), , about school bullying, earned $184m (RMB1.35bn).
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Top 10 Chinese films in 2024

China.dot.org 03 Jan 2025
Audiences gravitated toward novelty and comedy to bring some relief to their lives, while also seeking realistic films that offered relatability and emotional resonance ... Romulus" and Taiwanese crime action film "The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon."
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EXO’s D.O. and Won Jin Ah navigate love, heartbreak and personal growth in Secret: Untold Melody trailer; watch

Pinkvilla 03 Jan 2025
... between them in the trailer of their upcoming film Secret ... The fantasy romance film, set to release on January 28 in theatres of South Korea, is a remake of the 2007 Taiwanese film Secret, Secret.
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Thousands shed tears over new year film

Taipei Times 01 Jan 2025
Yun Chen (陳婕云), an 18-year-old Taiwanese university student and a film lover, expressed her admiration for the film’s long takes, which she described as “conveying a sense of urban desolation and emptiness.”.
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SPEAK UP: What are Google Taiwan’s most searched words in 2024?(1/2) Google 2024 台灣搜尋榜揭曉(上)

Taipei Times 01 Jan 2025
A ... B. Let me guess ... A. Wow, good guess ... Ticketing platform “Tixcraft,” Taiwanese film “The Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon,” Olympic gold boxer “Lin Yu-ting,” and the “Yuanta ETF coded 00940.” ... .
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Live CNN New Year's Eve segment goes off the rails as drag queen dares reporter ...

The Daily Mail 31 Dec 2024
Nymphia Wind, a Taiwanese drag queen who won RuPaul's Drag Race in April, was filmed daring a CNN correspondent to touch her 'pointy boobs' Tuesday ... This led to the joke from Wind, who visited then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen earlier this year.
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New Year brings thrillers, romances, action to Korean films

Korea Times 31 Dec 2024
Untold Melody," a remake of the 2007 Taiwanese film "Secret.” The movie follows a fantasy romance between Yoo-joon (Doh) and Jeong-ah (Won Jin-a), who meet by chance in a music practice room of a university hiding a secret of time.
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New rules for new year include minimum wage

Taipei Times 31 Dec 2024
The points, each equivalent to NT$1, can be used at designated independent bookstores, record stores, live music events and venues, cultural parks and screenings of Taiwanese films this year, it said.
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Some cheer and toast to welcome the New Year. In Taiwan, people cry their eyes out

RNZ 30 Dec 2024
... to downtown Taipei's Da'an Forest Park - the city's equivalent of New York's Central Park - on New Year's Eve to weep for half an hour, a nod to a scene from the popular Taiwanese film Vive L'Amour.
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Documentary exposes CCP's recruitment tactics targeting Taiwan

Beijing News 29 Dec 2024
Ba Jiong and Minnan Wolf, former CCP supporters, infiltrated a Taiwan Entrepreneurship Park in Fujian, China, by pretending to be pro-CCP Taiwanese ... This individual, the film claims, was "sent by James Soong," a prominent Taiwanese politician.
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Taiwan in Time: The first Taiwanese-language blockbuster

Taipei Times 28 Dec 2024
Xue Pinggui and Wang Baochuan was not actually the first Taiwanese-language feature film; that honor belongs to the 16mm Romance of the Western Chamber (六才子西廂記), which premiered at Taipei’s Daguan Theater (大觀戲院) on June 13, 1955.
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‘Zero Day’ show confronts fear of a Chinese invasion

Taipei Times 23 Dec 2024
That is the premise of Zero Day (零日攻擊), a new Taiwanese TV drama envisioning a Chinese invasion ... China has a much larger market for film and television. Taiwanese entertainers are popular there, partly due to language and cultural similarities.
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Makers of Taiwan’s ‘Zero Day’ TV series set around invasion fear backlash from China

Asahi News 23 Dec 2024
“We thought there is freedom in Taiwan but in film and TV production we are restricted by China on many levels,” said Cheng Hsin Mei, the showrunner on “Zero Day... market for film and television.

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