Ko I-chen
Also Known As: Ko Yizheng
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yizhu Township, Taiwan
Birthday: February 10, 1946
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mahjong
Overview: Winston Chen, a prominent businessman, goes missing after racking up $100 million in debts to the Taipei underworld. Two enforcers sent to find him, and they track down his son, Red Fish, the leader of a street gang.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-12-07
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Leave It to Destiny
Overview: A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-12-05
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Sacrificial Victims
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Kara-Orchestra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-01-23
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Ah Fei
Overview: The startling contrast between old and new Taiwan is the subject of Wan Jen's epic of traditional identities coming into conflict with an urban life, emphasizing the situation of women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang
Overview: CHEN Ming-chang, exposed to Western music, from The Beatles to Bob Dylan, often taught himself to play and sing with a guitar when he was young. In the closed social milieu of martial law in Taiwan, he became immersed in music and yearned for freedom, arousing his desire to become a musician. Later, he decided to set out on a journey to learn more about the music that has been passed down through generations. Traveling around Taiwan, he learns traditional opera music from prestigious musicians and integrates it into his artistic creations, composing music and stories that belong to Taiwan…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-11-17
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My Whispering Plan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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3 Days 2 Nights
Overview: Xiaoyue finds that her mother has been working for a long time away from home when she receives the apples sent from her mother. Just entering her puberty, Xiaoyue comes from a new immigrant family from Vietnam. She is laughed at and bullied in school because her old father makes a living as a scrap collector. The rebellious Biyan always stands out for Xiaoyue. She even plans a three-day journey to see her mother with Xiaoyue. Ms. Chen is faced with a dilemma. She is going to retire but the after-school tutorial class in the community is the only place for her to care her students. For Xiaoyue and her friend Biyan, her class is their hope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-12-01
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Ah Fu
Overview: There are several anthology films at the beginning stage of Taiwan New Cinema. Ah Fu consists of three shorts, having directors from various backgrounds. The leading roles in the three films are all named Ah Fu. The stories are played by different actors and located in Hong Kong, China, and Taipei respectively.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Soul
Overview: Ip Cheung and her husband, a senior police inspector, had been happily married for 18 years. One day, Ip runs into her neighbour, a Taiwanese woman. As they are talking, three men suddenly appeared and tried to kill them. The Taiwanese woman is killed but Ip and the kid, Yen, managed to escape. At the same time, Ip's husband commits suicide. His superior suspected him of corruption. Ip finds out that the Taiwanese woman was her husband's mistress and Yen, his illegitimate son. Ip is given custody of Yen but they are unable to get along. However she will save his live when the gang go after him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-09-25
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Super Citizen Ko
Overview: At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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Full Moon in New York
Overview: Three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-11-18
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The Bike & I
Overview: Taiwanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Taipei Story
Overview: A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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27°C - Loaf Rock
Overview: The heart-warming tale of a poor boy turns into a world-class baker, set in southern Taiwan and France. Pao-chun comes from a poor background, and realizes he must acquire a skill to provide for his mother. He leaves for Taipei and becomes an apprentice in a bakery, Finally, Pao-chun overcomes the odds and makes his dream red-bean bun, but disaster strikes when he loses both his childhood love and his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-07-19
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Ming Ghost
Overview: A story of a girl haunted by the ghost of her mother, after witnessing her murder.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1990-12-29
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The Cabbie
Overview: After falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he can in order to see her again.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2000-10-10
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Ending Cut
Overview: Hsu, retired, craves for grandchildren while his two sons still staying single. Preventing from losing memory, he takes a camera back to hometown to shoot an autobiography for his unborn grandchildren.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-11-19
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Our Time, Our Story
Overview: Richly illustrated with film clips and interviews, OUR TIME, OUR STORY tells the still-evolving story of the Taiwanese "new wave," from its rise in the early 1980s, as the island was democratizing after decades under martial law, through growing international recognition and domestic debate in the 1990s. Spearheaded in its early years by such filmmakers as Edward Yang, Ko I-cheng, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Wan Jen, the movement revitalized Taiwan cinema through low-budget experiments that emphasized personal stories, political reflection and stylistic invention. Said filmmakers, writers and actors like Wu Nien-jen and Sylvia Chang, even "second wave" directors Tsai Ming-liang and Lin Cheng-sheng provide fond reminiscences and retrospective insights in this compelling account of one of the most distinctive national cinemas of the last quarter-century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast
Overview: More than 20 years ago, there were three "Ban Dou" master chefs who dominated the catering business in Taiwan. However, the street banquet business has been in decline since Taiwan's economic boom. Master Fly Spirit wants to pass the family recipes and culinary skills on to his only child, Wan, but she desperately wants to run away from the family business and to become a film star.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-08-16
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Juliets
Overview: A triptych reinterpreting Shakespeare's classic character Juliet. The three stories are directed by 3 different directors; Juliet's Choice (By Hou Chi Jan), Two Juliets (By Shen Ko Shang), and Another Juliet (By Chen Yu Hsun) Juliet's Choice : In the 70's, Ju worked in a printing store where a boy with a banned article changes her life. Two Juliets : Mei is told that in the 80's, a woman faked insanity to be locked up just to wait for her lover. Another Juliet : In 2010, "Juliet" tries to commit suicide but a TV commercial crew gets in the way.....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-12-03
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Life of Pi
Overview: The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-20
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10 Plus 10
Overview: 10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Such a life
Overview: 'Such a Life' is quite a sad film. It is set in the sixties, in a village on the west coast of Taiwan, where many are succumbing to 'black foot', a disease caused by drinking contaminated well water. The only 'cure' is to amputate the afflicted limb, and to avoid drinking the contaminated water. Many in the village were already sick, and few could afford to have tap-water installed. At the center of the story is Ah Chung, who lives with his grandfather, who has already lost one leg to 'black foot'. In the same village also live an opera family, who are finding things increasingly difficult there, an oyster farmer, who complains that his oysters are being poisoned by a nearby pharmaceutical plant, and an assortment of children who enjoy swimming in the sea, and who bully Ah Chung. A significant portion of the action also takes place in the village school, where Ah Chung is having trouble keeping up with the fees.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1997-09-28
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Betelnut Beauty
Overview: A cute coed leaves her mother's home and gets involved with a pastry chef who has links to the local criminal element.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2001-06-20
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Great Thing in One's Life
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Machi Action
Overview: What happens when a costumed universal space hero is put out to pasture? Or, rather, the actor portraying him is?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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For Bad Boys Only
Overview: The Bad Boy Squad, a variety of private detective agency, is composed of King (Ekin Cheng Yi-kin), Queen (Kristy Yeung), and Jack (Louis Koo Tin-lok), whose primary source of business is the reuniting of clientèle with their first flames, and when the trio of young operatives returns to Hong Kong from an assignment in Thailand and the Squad's next three customers supply photographs of lost loves, the women in the pictures appear to be the same individual.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2000-12-15
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Ann Ann
Overview: Ann Ann was as active and curious as most middle school students. He would run off to explore the weathered area, egged on by his classmates. But he was shrouded by an invisible shadow. His father died of liver cancer, and hereditary liver cancer claimed his sister's life. His mother is the only family he has, but it is his classmate Aden who knows him best. When Aden was young, his mother ran off with someone else, and he and his sister became his father's punching bag.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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