What’s 29-year-old virgin Hsiao Hung who still lives at home with his overbearing mom to do? How overbearing? Well, in addition to instructing him how to eat his dinner, she sets him up with dates and then calls in the middle to coach him along. His rascal cousin’s answer to bring him out of his …
During the night of his 18th birthday, Jan-wen commits a random shooting in a crowded night market, using a self-made modified gun. Although an everyday occurrence in America, this is a once-in-a-lifetime incident that rocks Taiwan (although there was an infamous knife attack in Taipei’s subway a few years ago). We soon discover that Jan-wen …
Mountain mists start rolling into a village in early autumn, setting an atmosphere of idyllic, tribal life, but things ramp up with two events–an upcoming local election and the return of a granddaughter who was studying abroad, sparking a chain of events that will change this close-knit family with the desire for modernity on everyone’s …
When he ignores his master Eight-Toed Qilin’s advice, martial world fledgling Su Huan-Jen is caught up in a perilous power struggle because of his friend Yu Huan. Ensnared in a conspiracy that even his own master cannot escape from, Su Huan-Jen must turn back the tide and stop the evil mastermind once and for all… …
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