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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Taiwan is known around the world as having one of the most diverse cuisines in Asia, and food is the foremost passion of its 23 million inhabitants. The raw and the cooked is a sumptuous exploration of the island's rich culinary traditions, and their relationship to the Taiwan's unique mix of cultures. The film begins in Taipei, circles the island, and then heads inland. Along the way we enter the world-renowned restaurant Shin Yeh atop the city's...
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Stationed at Taiwan's most dangerous military base, a young officer's greatest struggle isn't his intense physical training-it's holding onto his innocence while stationed next to a military brothel. This historical drama touches on the aches and absurdities of coming-of-age in a nation on the brink of war.
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by events in the life of acclaimed director Hou Hsiao-hsien ("The Assassin"), this award-winning coming-of-age tale remains one of the most significant works of Taiwan's internationally renowned New Cinema movement. **Berlin International Film Festival** winner.
Publisher
Cheng Cheng Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Underlining the gap between have-nots' lives and elites' world by switching between black and white and glamorous colors, THE GREAT BUDDHA+ vividly illustrates a corrupted village in rural southern Taiwan with memorable style, heartfelt empathy, and whimsical humor. 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...
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Taiwan's highest-grossing horror movie of all time, THE TAG-ALONG draws its dread from the nation's most chilling urban legend about a creepy little girl in a red dress... *"THE TAG-ALONG scores over the average chiller. It is not slack in packaging a back-story with quiet, hidden moments of personal trouble that heighten the enveloping tension."* - Tay Yek Keak, **The Straits Times (Singapore)**
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set against the unique backdrop of Edinburgh Castle, the 58th Edinburgh Military Tattoo celebrates the Diamond Wedding Anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and features a musical tribute to the special role of military music throughout history. Performers from Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia, New Zealand, Oman, Canada, Russia, South Africa, the USA and the UK provide a truly memorable visual celebration of music and...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Reveal the secrets behind the remarkable transformations of the "Asian Tiger" countries of South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore from poor countries to high-income economies in the span of 50 years. Starting with their shared features, trace their progression from authoritarian regimes to more democratic governments and compare and contrast their concentrated efforts to shape their economies.
9) Detention
Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
We’re in 1962 Taiwan, during the time of the White Terror, with martial law in full force on the island. In this time of extreme repression, all ideas considered to be dissident are banned, and the culprits are tortured or executed. Tsuihua Secondary School is not an exception from this oppression. Despite close surveillance by the military police, Professor Chang (Fu Meng-Po) runs an underground literary club where he and his students learn about...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
China's century of Humiliation explores the fundamental differences between the Western and Chinese culture from early beginnings. The film debates how Christianity and Confucianism were translated in political thought and social systems. Next, the film investigates why the industrial revolution did not take place in China, despite its many early inventions, but in Europe. China's century of Humiliation sheds light on the first economic and military...
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