Taiwanese cinema is a very important part of Chinese cinema, and although Taiwanese cinema has shown a trend of decline over the years, this still cannot hide the unique style of Taiwanese cinema. Among them, the directors mainly composed of Ang Lee, Yang Dechang and Hou Xiaoxian have become their representatives and have been internationally recognized. Let's take a look at ten classic movies in Taiwan.
"Juvenile Murder On Muling Street"
Before getting to know Xiaoming (Yang Jingyi), XiaoSi (Zhang Zhen) was a typical well-behaved boy, the hope of his parents and the pride of his brothers and sisters (the family expected him to be admitted to a prestigious university to enhance the social status of the whole family in the future), he had a friend who liked rock music and called himself "Elvis Presley (Wang Qizan)", although the two would go to the woods to see people meet, but they lived a completely different life from many teenagers around them who were mixed in the "small park".
After falling in love with Xiaoming, Xiao Si fell into a bottomless abyss and began to be led by various forces in the outside world. The object of new knowledge admiration, Honey (Lin Hongming), died suddenly, the self-esteem and spirit of his father, who had always been respected, were seriously damaged by an incident, and Xiao Ming, who had repeatedly "cheated and played" with his feelings, "saw through", and Xiao Si, who had a strong sense of morality, finally embarked on the road of crime, hoping to end the root of the incident with his own knife. But what Xiao Si didn't know was that the root in his eyes was only an insignificant link in this food chain.
"Eating Men and Women"
After retiring, Lao Zhu (Lang Xiong), the last surviving master of Chinese cuisine in Taiwan, gradually tasted many embarrassments of old age: a table of hearty dishes painstakingly made every Sunday did not have the attraction of pulling three daughters (Yang Guimei, Wu Qianlian, wang Yuwen) to the dinner table, and they had grown up to hide many more important things in their hearts than eating with their fathers; the sudden death of an old friend for many years made him have a gap in friendship; and the loss of the most important taste for the chef completely pushed him to the trough of life.
Although the three daughters are busy with their own affairs, they are also worried about Lao Zhu's later life and plan to find an old wife for him, but they did not expect that Lao Zhu had already quietly talked about "dusk love". After the surprise, the second daughter Jiaqian, who inherited his talent for cooking, which Lao Zhu valued the most, had a new understanding of her father and her relationship with her father because of her own life experience, and the greater surprise for Lao Zhu was still to come.
《One By One》
NJ (Wu Nianzhen) is a very principled businessman who lives with his wife Min Min (Jin Yanling), daughter Tingting (Li Kelly), son Yang Yang (Zhang Yangyang) and grandmother in a normal apartment in Taipei. After a troublesome wedding for his brother-in-law, he ushered in more chaotic days because his grandmother suddenly suffered a stroke and fell unconscious. Min Min's company and home run at both ends, often feeling that they are going to be emptied; Tingting has always felt guilty for her grandmother's stroke, and found herself in love halfway through to find herself as a substitute; NJ is even more troublesome, the company is facing bankruptcy, and he is unwilling to let go of the self-esteem that others see as worthless. In the family, it seems that only Yangyang has no worries, and he calmly uses the camera to photograph the back of various people and help them grow another pair of eyes, however, Yangyang's simple words express deeper sadness.
The Blue Gate
High school student Meng Kerou (Gui Lunmeng) and Lin Yuezhen (Liang Shuhui) are good friends who talk about everything, and Yuezhen tells Kerou that she has fallen in love with a boy named Zhang Shihao (Chen Bailin), and often asks Kerou to help her get close to Zhang Shihao, help him know him, and help deliver love letters. Unexpectedly, Zhang Shihao thought that it was Meng Kerou who liked him, so he often used the excuse to approach her and be with her. The matter of passing on the love letter was posted, and it turned out that Lin Yuezhen wrote a letter to Zhang Shihao in the name of Meng Kerou, who was very angry and thus estranged from Lin Yuezhen. On the other hand, Xiang Meng kerou was extremely reluctant to admit that she and Zhang Shihao were lovers, but Zhang Shihao had deeply liked her. Meng Kerou wanted to kiss the boy because she thought clearly about one thing, and it turned out that in her heart, she liked another person.
"The Secret That Cannot Be Said"
Ye Xianglun (Jay Chou) is a transfer student at Tamkang Arts High School, and his father (Huang Qiusheng) is a teacher at the school. On this day, classmate Qingyi (Zeng Kaiying) took him to visit the school, and then he came to the old piano room of the school alone, and he was attracted by a piano piece that came from somewhere. He goes to one of the old piano rooms and meets Lu Xiaoyu (Gui Lunmeng), where a pure love story takes place. All along, Ye Xianglun felt that Xiaoyu was full of mystery, but he couldn't understand her further. Ye Xianglun asked Xiaoyu to meet in the piano room, Ye Xianglun thought that Qingyi was a light rain, and was seen by Xiaoyu when kissing Qingyi, and since then Ye Xianglun has not seen Xiaoyu again. Ye Xianglun searched everywhere for Xiaoyu and discovered the whole truth of the "secret that cannot be said" by Xiaoyu.
"Love Wind and Dust"
After graduating from junior high school, due to his family's lack of permission, 15-year-old rural teenager Ah Yuan (Wang Jingwen) gave up his studies to do things in Taipei, tasted the hardships of life for the first time, but still worked hard for his ideals. A year later, Ah Yuan's lover Ah Yun (Xin Shufen) also came to Taipei and learned that the real Taipei and Ah Yuan's letter described two worlds. But the trapped environment did not diminish their happiness because they had each other.
When Ah Yuan was in the military, because of the daily arrival of letters, Ah Yun, who was alone in Taipei, did not feel much loneliness at first. However, as the days passed, the paper appeal of the distant lover was better than the whispers of the living boys in real life, coupled with the panic about the future, Ah Yun chose to marry someone else before Ah Yuan retired from the army. Although there is sadness, Ah Yuan can only choose to suppress.
Cape Seven
In Hengchun, a beautiful town nestled by the sea, Ajia (Fan Yichen), a young man whose musical dreams have been hit in Taipei, is watching everything coldly. Although he became a substitute postman with the help of his father, the chairman of the Mindai Dynasty, the letters and parcels were piled up in the room by him, and for a parcel that could not be delivered from Japan, he did not return it according to the instructions of the old postman Mao Bo (Lin Zongren), but opened it privately to check it: except for a yellowed photo of a young girl, it was several letters written 60 years ago. At that time, Japan was defeated in World War II, and the Japanese teacher (Takasuke Naka) in Taiwan abandoned his girlfriend who had eloped with the Japanese army, and on the way back to Japan, he turned his love and remorse into words, but the letter was not sent by his daughter until his death.
"The Wedding Feast"
Wei Tong (Zhao Wenxuan) is a successful gay man who lives happily in the United States with her boyfriend, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and is troubled by having to deal with forced marriages from her father (Lang Xiong) and mother (Gui Yalei) who are far away in Taipei. Wei Tong was forced to write a letter claiming to be married in the United States in the image of a "well-behaved boy", but his parents wanted to witness it with their own eyes. Helplessly, he had to pull up the undesirable female artist From Shanghai, Wei Wei (Jin Sumei), to "fake marriage" and try to escape the disaster. The parents are quite satisfied with Wei Wei, but they are dissatisfied with Wei Tong's sloppy attitude, in order to make the parents satisfied to return to Taipei as soon as possible, Wei Tong is like "desperate Sanlang" to do everything in his power. But people are not as good as heaven, and the constant twists and turns have delayed his parents' return date again and again, making his relationship with Simon light up a "red light", and WeiWei accidentally became pregnant with his child. It seems that Wei Tong, in front of his strong parents (tradition), can only choose to be a "superficially normal" man.
"My Girlhood"
Successful white-collar Lin Zhenxin (played by Chen Qiaoen) was oppressed by his superiors and complained by his subordinates, and fell into the deep memories of his girlhood. It turns out that the heart of an ordinary girl (played by Song Yunhua) has a hilarious but full of sweet memories of her first love. The girl really had a crush on the school grass Ouyang Feifan (played by Li Yuxi), but always failed to match the charm of the school flower Tao Minmin (played by Jian Yanrui), which made her distressed, but an accident made her and the school bully Xu Taiyu (played by Wang Zhou) form a "lost love front alliance", they were bound to win love, staged a scene of fierce, funny youth fun, and in the process of getting along, the feelings of the two also underwent subtle changes... A few years later, can Lin Zhenxin, who has come to the adult world, regain his original intention?
"Sedek-Bale"
In the treacherous Japanese occupation era, the Saidek were forced to lose their cultural beliefs, men had to serve in labor and could not hunt, women were not allowed to weave colorful clothes, and the brave and warlike hero Mona Rudao (Lin Qingtai Ching-tai Lin) witnessed thirty years of oppression. Because of a misunderstanding that planted the tension between the Japanese police and the Sidek tribe, the clan has since lived in the haze of fear of being revived by the japanese alarm, and after deep consideration, Although He knew that he would face a crisis of extinction, he understood that only by standing up for the dignity of the nation could he become a true Sidek, so he decided to lead the clan to follow the instructions of the ancestral spirit and retake their hunting ground...