Movies: Shu-shen Hsiao

  • 2000
    Yi Yi

    Yi Yi (2000)

    Yi Yi

    7.92000HD

    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 is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blan...

    Yi Yi
  • 1999
    Never Compromise

    Never Compromise (1999)

    Never Compromise

    31999HD

    Two notorious murderers ignite a violent massacre, leading a determined police force on pursuit to bring them to justice....

    Never Compromise
  • 2005
    Love's Lone Flower

    Love's Lone Flower (2005)

    Love's Lone Flower

    4.52005HD

    A woman falls in love with two different girls, both singers - one in Shanghai during the late 1940s, the other in Taiwan during the late 1950s....

    Love's Lone Flower
  • 2000
    Hidden Whisper

    Hidden Whisper (2000)

    Hidden Whisper

    82000HD

    The film consists of three stories: One about a 5-year-old girl, one about a teenager, and still another about a 30 something woman involved in an affair with a married man. Without providing a definite answer whether the three leading actresses are ...

    Hidden Whisper
  • 1999
    March of Happiness

    March of Happiness (1999)

    March of Happiness

    5.81999HD

    1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 Februar...

    March of Happiness
  • 2006
    Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate

    Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate (2006)

    Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate

    52006HD

    Da Yu, a 15-year-old boy, wanders aimlessly in the lonely city....

    Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate
  • 2000
    A Chance to Die

    A Chance to Die (2000)

    A Chance to Die

    6.52000HD

    Burned by the desire to avenge her dead boyfriend, a Japanese woman learns to shoot a gun, and goes after the local Mafia in Taiwan. Mizuno Miki excels in her role as the grieving and estranged, then vengeful and cold-blooded foreigner....

    A Chance to Die
  • 1997
    Such a life

    Such a life (1997)

    Such a life

    81997HD

    '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,...

    Such a life
  • 2000
    Lament of the Sand River

    Lament of the Sand River (2000)

    Lament of the Sand River

    02000HD

    To achieve his dream of being a trumpet player, a man leaves his hometown and works in a touring operetta troupe. He falls in love with a girl but then contracts tuberculosis, forcing him to give up the trumpet....

    Lament of the Sand River
  • 2004
    West Town Girls

    West Town Girls (2004)

    West Town Girls

    02004HD

    Due to a combination of bad writing, unnecessary and distracting directorial gimmicks (split screens, black & white, slow motion, etc.) and very inept subtitling, "West Down Girls" is almost completely impossible to follow, but I think it has som...

    West Town Girls
  • 2000
    Sunny Doll

    Sunny Doll (2000)

    Sunny Doll

    02000HD

    Hsin-He, a high school sophomore who can get along just fine on her own, lives with her father. At school, the days pass slowly by, until one day, she is assigned to be the student teacher. Since she loaths math, her teacher orders Ke-Lei, student te...

    Sunny Doll