Chen Yi-wen
Also Known As: 陳以文, Chen Yi-Wen, Yiwen Chen, Ivan Chen, 陈以文, Chen Yiwen
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taiwan
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Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Increasing Echo
Overview: Everything around Mrs. Yan looks perfect, but her mind is as confused and complex as the variety of medications she is taking. To reach peace of body and mind, she tries many methods including qi training, but to no avail. One day she gets a message that the woman who had an affair with her husband is in a nursing home and suffering from dementia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-01-14
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Yi Yi
Overview: Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother-in-law is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2000-09-20
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Leave Me Alone
Overview: For a sleepless city like Taipei, the lives of the rich and poor occasionally cross. These people flit in and out of one another lives, in a seemingly endless food chain of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-12-24
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The Funeral
Overview: Chun Hua, who has been away from home for years after cutting her father off, receives the news of her grandfather's death and has no choice but to return home with her daughter for the funeral. Her father, whom she hasn't seen in years, is as cold and rude as ever, and doesn't look kindly on them. And when night falls, the family seems to be hiding more horrible secrets.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-04-01
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Summer
Overview: The story is set in a small southern town at the beginning of the century, where people believed that innocence and hope would lead to a better tomorrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-03-25
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A Confucian Confusion
Overview: Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei crisscross, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-10-13
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Looking for Kafka
Overview: In Taipei, a rehearsal for Kafka’s Metamorphosis is in full swing as the show’s opening night approaches. Lin’s girlfriend, Julie, is visiting him from Paris. After the rehearsal, he picks her up at the airport and they spend the night together. In the morning, Lin is nowhere to be found and leaves Julie waiting at his apartment
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-11-04
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Paradise in Service
Overview: Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service" follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in preparation for a war that could erupt anytime. Through an unlucky lottery draw result, Pao, a twenty-something young man from Southern Taiwan has to serve the military in the remote and perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB), a unit noted for the toughest physical training. It never occurs to Pao, however, that the greatest challenge in his military service lies not in the Sea Dragon but in Unit 831, a special task he is later appointed to… In this peculiar assignment, Pao vows to keep his virginity against all odds.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-09-05
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The Embers
Overview: In 2006, Detective Chang leads a police investigation into a murder committed in a public marketplace. Chang discovers the victim's father has ties to several other families with dead or missing members, and a grim espionage case buried for 50 years in Taiwan's past. Meanwhile, the kidnapped Mr. Hsu is interrogated by a mysterious mastermind. As the truth emerges, the embers of history become a deadly wildfire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-11-15
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The Unforgiven
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-12-03
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Growth Period
Overview: It portrays the tumultuous life of a middle-class couple and the reshuffling of relationship dynamics when the woman's young assistant and their landlord become involved, presenting urban life as observed by Yang through a multitude of rapid dialogue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1993-01-31
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Peacock
Overview: A student from a modest home goes to an elite private school and makes a life-altering agreement with a talking peacock in the schoolyard.
Genres: Drama Family Science Fiction
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-07-28
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The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon
Overview: The arrogant, third most-wanted criminal in Taiwan, decides to get rid of the top two competitors and crowns himself the most-wanted criminal before dying.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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生活的教訓
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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The Man from Island West
Overview: In contemporary Taiwan, the aboriginal Ah-ming attempts suicide. When his life is saved by an old miner, Ah-ming is drawn into a journey back to his origins. Meanwhile, the miner's son, Ah-Chuan, finds a fugitive hooker who has returned from the lowlands. But Ah-Chuan only wants to integrate himself into mainstream society, in sharp contrast to the intentions and needs of those around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Jam
Overview: The lives of two young thieves, a mob hitman and a film producer are entangled when the two thieves steal a car that had already been previously stolen to been used as a getaway car.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1998-07-04
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Century Egg
Overview: A man returns to Taiwan, the country he left behind decades prior, only to find himself wandering a city he no longer recognizes and in the company of a stranger who took him in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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The Blue Choker
Overview: Yeh, a gifted student, transfers to Edison Junior High, a private school renowned for its academic performance. Disturbed by the gloomy atmosphere and distorted institutions, the rebellious Yeh begins to challenge everything he sees and feels. Little does he know that he is slowly falling into the treacherous trap of the mysterious "Dorm 420".
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-09-14
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Godspeed
Overview: A Taiwanese drug mule has his foolproof smuggling method thrown out of whack when he catches a ride with the wrong cab driver.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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A Sun
Overview: A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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A Taxi Driver
Overview: A “yes-man” taxi driver tries to take revenge and regain control of his fate. However, it is fate who plays a joke on him instead. On this absurd day, a psychological rollercoaster awaits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-07-07
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Blossom
Overview: A 12-year-old XiaoJing survives a car accident unscathed. She bravely deals with the trepidation alone, until her father rushes to the hospital. She thought that her anxieties and emotional injuries could be alleviated, but is forced to face a more severe difficulty.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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A Brighter Summer Day
Overview: A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1991-07-27
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A Trip with Mom
Overview: In order to take care of his old mother, who has amnesia and is disabled, Xia Changming remains unemployed at home. A family of four have been relying on the wife Xiaoling for many years. Finally, when the police brought the mother back, and his wife took his son away, Changming decided to take his mother to on a trip...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-03-03
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Xiao Mei
Overview: A film about the tormenting presence of absence. A young shop girl named Xiao Mei suddenly vanishes from her usual existence, without explanation or trace. Has she dissolved, or perhaps redeemed herself somehow? Nine people from her immediate surroundings try to fill the empty space left behind by this supposedly insignificant young woman. In a kaleidoscope of meandering memories, projections, confessions, interpretations, incantations and helpless speculations through which the young escapee wanders aimlessly, they attempt to solve the mystery of her disappearance.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-12-01
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The Great Buddha+
Overview: Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies' will, something horrifying rather than erotic reveals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Classmates Minus
Overview: Four school buddies — a director, a temp worker, an insurance salesman and a paper craftsman — grapple with unfulfilled dreams amid middle age ennui.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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Someone Who Was Lost
Overview: Inspired by the notorious "cement murder" incident that shocked Hong Kong and Taiwan, this engaging crime drama is also a timely reflection on society and the struggles faced by young adults. Siblings Cong and Panda, along with Taiwanese student Tai, share a duplex apartment in Hong Kong. When Cong accidentally kills their landlord due to a series of misunderstandings, the three decide to seal the body in cement and flee to Taiwan. After news of the murder explodes over TV and the Internet, they are forced to avoid attention at all costs; not just from the police, but also the landlord's brother who seeks revenge.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-02-21
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Growing Pains
Overview: Fourteen-year-old Yao is sick of his worn-out shoes, which his father never replace for being too deep in debt. One day, after a confrontation with debt collectors, his father suddenly buys him a pair of expensive sneakers. Little did Yao know, this is the start of a painful tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-01-08
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A Leg
Overview: In this deliciously dark comedy, a woman desperately attempts to reunite her husband's amputated leg with his body before his funeral, leading her on a wild goose chase across Taipei and through multiple encounters with bureaucracy, ineptitude, and her own recent past.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-12-24
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Plurality
Overview: After a bizarre bus accident, Ming Ze awakens from a coma to discover that his mind now shares the consciousness of four fellow passengers – all of them dead; all of them suspects in a serial kidnapping and murder case. To prove his own innocence, Ming evades capture by the police and tries to track down the killer’s only surviving victim. But in order to unmask the murderer’s true identity, Ming must first fight the monster within himself.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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Treat or Trick
Overview: Feng, a corrupted police officer, ordered to retrieve the diamonds within 48hrs, arrives at a remote village, following the mobile signal of his partner Chiang who stole the diamonds from the gang. While Feng and his men try to find Chiang in the village, they encounter the locals who seem naive but suspicious, and a ghost full of stories. Remake of a renowned Korean film To Catch A Virgin Ghost (2004).
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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The Falls
Overview: After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-10-29
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Formosa Mambo
Overview: When a band of kidnappers attempts to collect a ransom for their young hostage, the boy’s family dismisses it as a prank. Stuck with a youngster to care for and on the lam, the stage is set for a dark comedy of errors. We get this and much more with delicious plot twists and a growing pile-up of fraud and double crosses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-07-22
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Tristes Tropiques
Overview: A group of young assassins affiliated with the 'Tristes Tropiques' are trained by the tropical rainforest’s absolute ruler known as 'Master'. As they grapple with distrust, they vow to exact bloody revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ko
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