Chih-ju Lin
Also Known As: 林志儒, Hokka Lin, Wen-pin Chen, Lin Chih-ju, Lin Chih Ju
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hsinchu, Taiwan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1948
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
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Islander
Overview: A paid supporter and his grandson came from the south to visit his only son, a long-detained political prisoner. "My son, do not forget me." The prisoner' roar is the most reactionary appeal under the peaceful new political power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-10-23
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Boys on the Bridge
Overview: One day during the summer vacation before high school, Lil Fish skips the orientation and wants to hang out with his buddies. Still, to get the junior high diploma, all his friends are cleaning up the campus to remove their demerits. Only Lychee pals around with him in their fishing village, as they always do. Lil Fish thinks such kind of life will never change, but what happens that day makes him realize he and his friends have embarked on a different future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-01-05
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The Laundryman
Overview: A-Gu enlists a group of contract killers in the disguise of laundry service. One of them, code-named "No.1 Qingtian Street", is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. He seeks help from Lin Hsiang, a psychic.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Thriller Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-08-20
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Till We Meet Again
Overview: Ah Lun, who has a choice to make in the underworld, decides to be a god of love in Chinese mythology. As he advances with his tasks on Earth, his biggest challenge is to tie a red string with the woman he loves the most.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-11-24
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Right Jabs
Overview: It’s supposed to be an energetic morning, but Zhe, a real estate agent, feels suffocated and oppressed. With nowhere to go, he heads to a house that he can’t sell and calls for an escort, unexpectedly opening up new possibilities for both of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-10-15
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Goddamned Asura
Overview: On his 18th birthday, Jan Wen shoots randomly at the crowds in a night market for unknown reasons. The tragic incident causes a strong impact on the lives of his family and friends, the victims and the witnesses. However, if there was a chance for them to make different choices, would the tragedy still happen? Will it be a different outcome if they all changed their behaviour at the crucial moment?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-03-11
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Miss Shampoo
Overview: A hair salon apprentice accidentally saves a gangster's life — an act that helps bring in new clientele and drops her into a world of chaos.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-07-28
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The Last Shot
Overview: Middle-aged A-San, who has been single for many years, finally feels his heart beating again. But he is hesitant in taking action and asking out Yu-lian. His best friend is someone who has always been on his side and has never abandoned him, but can’t take his celibacy anymore. This friend is his penis. His soft, flaccid penis turns into a human. He swears to God that he will turn his loser life around and get laid. So A-San and his penis duke it out for control of sense and sensibility.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-10-29
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Coo-Coo 043
Overview: The sound of wings reverberates through the air. In the murky half-light, race pigeon 043 has finally returned after seven years. The family's barely-maintained peace after their son's missing is shattered by 043's return, as the daughter brings a street boy home. Things begin to change gradually, so do the people. In the aftershock of the storm, what course should the wounded follow?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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Scamsgiving
Overview: Jason and his mother, Yun, make big bucks together in Chinatown swindling money out of people since Jason was little. Along with the grocery store owner Andy who took them in since Jason was a baby, they decide to do one last big job. Their target is Mrs. Apple, the founder of Tao Lin, a world renowned porcelain company. Jason pretends to be that rich old granny's long lost grandson, and Mrs. Apple insists on bringing Jason back to Taiwan, so that Jason can officially reclaim his heritage. In Mrs. Apple's extravagant house, these foreigners start role-playing to infiltrate the Zong Family. Jason starts to feel the warmth of being a part of a family that he has never felt before. This has greatly affected Team America's plan, the three of them start to blame and fight each other. Their cover is about to be exposed, but somehow the truth of Jason's family mystery is revealed..
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-01-20
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Loser Family
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-06-23
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The Brave Young Generation
Overview: A Shaw Brothers production that was filmed in Taiwan
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-05-27
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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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Seventeen
Overview: Xue Ping, an out of town war veteran and Ahong a high school night school student both take the train to visit Taipei and wander around Taipei city, spending a strange and chaotic day. From time to time these two people's lives intersect. When the sun sets, they finally run into each other, stirring up the drama, and the revelation of a sixty year old sad and beautiful gay love story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-03-27
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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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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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Cannot Live Without You
Overview: A down and out man and his daughter live in an illegal hovel. The two live a happy peaceful life until the authorities intervene when the child reaches school age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-08-13
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The Losers
Overview: A man chooses to leave the city and goes back to his hometown in the countryside. However, he finds that his dream of being a farmer is shattered as the property developers have flocked into this small town in Southern Taiwan. Consequently, the farmland is taken over by holiday homes and villas, which not only look incongruous in the landscape but have destroyed the serenity. A woman who left home lives in one of the villas. She has been trapped in the house both physically and mentally until she meets the man. Their encounter is about to change everything…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-03-26
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Hotel Blackcat
Overview: The Hotel Blackcat's owner, Mang, never leaves the counter. Guests include the immigrant worker, whore, losing-job Japanese, sex-abused man, little Lolita.... The police forces the Hotel to shut down and all guests must leave. What should they do? It's not necessary to lock each room anymore. Keep the door open, you'll find out traces imprinted with figures as well as times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-11-06
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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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The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful
Overview: Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a gruesome murder. Ambition, desire and lust eventually change Tang's relationships with her own family forever.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Your Name Engraved Herein
Overview: In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-09-30
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A Family Tour
Overview: A mainland Chinese filmmaker, exiled to Hong Kong for her politically-charged work, reunites with her mother on a trip to Taiwan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-11-18
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Man in Love
Overview: A debt collector strikes a deal with a debt-ridden woman struggling to care for her ailing father: he will take care of her bills if she agrees to date him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-04-01
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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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Claw Back
Overview: Chang Yun-kuang, a driver supporting his family, runs a claw machine business on the side to make ends meet. When his estranged father reappears, Yun-kuang avoids confrontation, instead finding solace in observing the lively interactions of players and machine owners. As he learns from their stories, his life starts to transform, pushing him to finally reach for what truly matters and reclaim the "prize" he has been missing all along.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-11-10
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The Paradise
Overview: Hua Ge, who has been addicted to heroin for thirty years, successfully quits drugs and sets up a farm on a mountain, which takes in young drug addicts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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Postcard
Overview: An indigenous construction worker has led a distasteful life, until he meets a young hooker, and starts a poetic journey of love⋯ Postcard is Cheng's first short film, which elegantly presents the situation of the lower class with songs and poems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1999-07-01
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Intimate Encounter
Overview: Two years post heart transplant, Ah Xun remains unable to shake off the gloom cast over his renewed life. First, there is a house fire; then, an unprecedented pandemic breaks out. Retreating to his grandfather’s home, Ah Xun finds himself persistently haunted by a string of unfortunate events. He is faced with an ex lover’s return, an encounter with the mixed-race sibling neighbours, the harrowing news of his mother’s cancer, his sister’s nervous breakdown, a friend’s drug issues, and now, the news of his grandfather testing positive for the new disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-12-13
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Gurgling
Overview: A young housewife’s mundane life is stirred when she suspects someone of gazing at her through her shower window.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2025-02-21
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