Also known as Di 36 Ge Gu Shi / 第36個故事 / 第36个故事 / 第三十六個故事

Genre: Comedy, Drama , Romance

Category: Taiwanese Movie

Film Date: June, 2010

Taipei Exchanges (第36個故事) directed by first time director Hsiao Ya-chuan (蕭雅全) brings us a wonderful movie set in Taipei that explores the theme of the value of things. In a city where capitalism and money dominates daily life the movie imagines an alternative of barter, storytelling and dreaming. The story begins with Doris (Kwai Lun Mei ) who opens a cafe with her sister Josie. In the beginning Doris is business minded, while Josie is more idealistic. However the process of trading things not for their monetary value but for their meaning slowly transforms Doris.

Film Date: January, 2010
Taiwan Casts:
Eddie Peng, Ivy Chen , Michelle Chen
Description:

Cheerful delivery boy Tian Kuo (Eddie Peng) delivers lunchboxes to a local hearing-impaired swimming team. He holds a torch for hearing-impaired cutie Yang Yang (Ivy Chen), who’s often at the pool to cheer on her older sister Xiao Peng (Michelle Chen). Yang Yang wholeheartedly supports Xiao Peng’s dream of competing in the Deaflympics, even if it means working multiple jobs and giving all her time to her sister. Yang Yang slowly falls for Tian Kuo’s goofy charms, but the burgeoning romance opens a rift in the sisters’ relationship.

• Taiwan Casts:
  Chun-Ning Chang, Vic Zhou
• Japan Casts:
  Erika Toda

Casts: Kate Yeung, Siu Yee, Tin Yau Tsui, Asuka Higuchi, Anjo Leung Hiu Fung

Set in Mongkok, a youth romance unravels between a girl and two amateur magicians - one is into stage magic while the other plies his trade on the streets. ‘Genuine’ magic tricks are included in this first full-length Hong Kong feature to use amateur magicians as a subject matter. Anjo Leung, in his film debut, is a real student of magic while director Adam Wong gives his account of the frailties of youth, this time using magic tricks as an allegory to the illusory nature of love.

Alternative Title: 拍賣世界的角落
Film Date: January, 2006
Taiwan Casts:
Joseph Chang, Megan Lai, Wu Zhen Ya
Description:

Paul’s office’s fax machine often receives random auction info. Under great encouragement from his friends, he went to inquire at the auction address and discovered that the site is a new residence which has just been decorated, but that the owner, Fran, has put a tag on every furniture and plans to auction them all off. 
Coincidentally, Paul’s office has been rented for over two years, and it’s empty, without anything much in it. He knew that the furniture of Fran’s was bought together with her fiance Robert for their new home. Under the lure of the romance behind the furniture, he bought every piece of Fran’s furniture.

• Genre: Comedy
• Film Date: December, 2008
• Description:

  Aga, a band singer, returns to Hengchun with frustration. Tomoko is a Japanese model assigned to organise a local warm-up band for the Japanese superstar’s beach concert. Together with five other ordinary Hengchun residents who never expected to be anybody in life, they formed an impossible band.

Alternative Title: Hu Die Fei
Genre: Drama, Romance
Taiwan Casts:
Chou Yu Min, Li Bing Bing, Maggie Shiu, Roy Cheung, Wong Yau Nam, Yao Yung
Description:
Tung (played by Chou Yu Min) is a popular student at his college. He was initially dating Fan, the college’s Queen, but became attracted to Gia (played by Li Bing Bing) whom he fell in love at first sight.
One day, Gia and Tung had a quarrel and when Tung gave chase to Gia on his motorcycle, he had a car accident and died. After the accident, Gia isn’t herself anymore and relies on medication to control her emotions.
Three years have passed since Tung’s death. Gia has graduated and works as a legal assistant in a law firm. Life is busy but she feels empty. She does not know if it is because of guilt or that she misses him.
Her doctor, Dr. Yuen (played by Roy Cheung) advises her to stop the medication and move on with her life. However, once she stops the medication, she begins to see Tung in her dreams. She suspects that her encounters with Tung are real. At the same time, she realizes that her love for Tung is true and she has never stopped loving him. Read more »

Alternative Title: Gong Fu Guan Lan,Kung Fu Guan Lan,Slam Dunk
Genre: Action, Comedy
Taiwan Casts:
Baron Chen, Charlene Choi, Eric Tsang, Jay Chou, Will Liu, Wilson Chen
Description:The film revolves around an orphaned boy who grew up in a kung fu university and becomes a talented basketball player. The youngster, Fang Shi Jie (Jay Chou) grew up at the Kung-Fu School. He practiced excellent Kung-Fu and is equipped with good skills. When he is punished by his principal to stay on the streets for one night, he demonstrates his incredible accuracy to a down-and-out hustler, Wang Li. On the pretext of helping him search for his family, Wang Li invites him to play basketball at ‘First University’ as the new star of its basketball team. Meanwhile, Wang Li capitalizes on media interest in Shi-Jie to make money via interviews and news articles…

Alternative Title: Bu jian bu san, Good Bye, Dragon Inn
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Film Date: July, 2004
Taiwan Casts:
Chao-Jung Chen, Chun Shih, Kang-Sheng Lee, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Kuei-Mei Yang, Shiang-Chyi Chen, Tien Miao
Description:A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a once-popular movie theater, a decrepit old barn of a cinema that is screening a martial arts classic, King Hu’s 1966 “Dragon Inn.” Even with the rain bucketing down outside, it doesn’t pull much of an audience — and some of those who have turned up are less interested in the movie than in the possibility of meeting a stranger in the dark

Alternative Title: Yin shi nan nu
Film Date: January, 1994
Total Videos: 1
Taiwan Casts:
Chao-Jung Chen, Chien-Lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang, Lester Chit-Man, Sihung Lung, Sylvia Chang , Winston Chao, Yu-Wen Wang
Description:Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity, Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Jia-Ning, a student who also works in a fast food restaurant. Life in the house revolves around the ritual of an elaborate dinner each Sunday, and the love lives of all the family members.