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Au revoir Taipei - Yi ye Tai bei (Flyer)

Au revoir Taipei - Yi ye Tai bei

Arvin Chen – 2010

Kai, a brokenhearted young man from Taipei, yearns to be with his girlfriend, who's left for Paris. He spends his days working at his parents’ noodle restaurant and his nights trying to learn French at the local bookstore, where he meets Susie, a sweet but lonely girl who works there. Afraid of losing his girlfriend, and in need of money to get to Paris, he accepts a dubious offer from a local gangster – deliver a mysterious package to Paris. More

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Blue Gate Crossing (Flyer)
  • Blue Gate Crossing DVD
    DVD Blue Gate Crossing
    CHF 14.90 / EUR 13.80
  • trigon-film edition: Taiwan DVD
    DVD trigon-film edition: Taiwan
    CHF 22.90 / EUR 21.30
What Time is it There? - Ni na bian ji dian (Flyer)
  • What Time is it There? - Ni na bian ji dian DVD
    DVD What Time is it There?
    CHF 15.90 / EUR 14.80
  • trigon-film edition: Taiwan DVD
    DVD trigon-film edition: Taiwan
    CHF 22.90 / EUR 21.30
Yi Yi - A One and a Two (Flyer)

Yi Yi - A One and a Two

Edward Yang – 2000

The Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang shows in his film Yi Yi - A One and a Two the life of a family in modern Taipei. NJ is a man in his mid-forties. He is married, a father of two children and successful in his job - still he is no longer happy with himself and with his life. While NJ starts seing his old flame again his mother-in-law is in a coma. It is NJ's eight year old son who guides us through everyday life of the family and who asks critical questions and surprises the spectators with his experiments in the water. More

Flowers of Shanghai (Flyer)

Flowers of Shanghai

Hsiao-hsien Hou – 1998

An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai “flower houses,” where courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor but forced to work to buy back their freedom. More

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Goodbye South, Goodbye - Nanguo zaijian, nanguo (Flyer)

Goodbye South, Goodbye - Nanguo zaijian, nanguo

Hsiao-hsien Hou – 1996

This movie gives us a glimpse at life in northern Taiwan. The main person is Kao, a 37-years-old man who has constantly to solve problems created by his younger brother Flat Head and his girlfriend Pretzel. As a non-stop schemer, Kao devises a plan to raise money by trading subsidized pigs to the government for cash. The ruse works, but when the temperamental Flat Head antagonizes the wrong people, the two find themselves caught up in a dangerous game of corrupt politics. More

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  • Goodbye South, Goodbye - Nanguo zaijian, nanguo DVD
    DVD Goodbye South, Goodbye
    CHF 14.90 / EUR 13.80
The Puppetmaster - Hsimeng rensheng (Flyer)
A Touch of Zen (Flyer)

A Touch of Zen

King Hu – 1971

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks. More

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Dragon Inn

King Hu – 1971

After a successful intrigue, General Yu is executed by his political opponent eunuch Zhao and his children are banished from China. But the General's children are a thorn in Zhao's side and so he does everything to kill them on their way into exile. He sets an ambush at the lonely hostel at the dragon gate. But the faithful followers of the assassinated general rush to help the children. A fight for life and death unleashes itself. More