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- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsKenny BeeAnthony ChanPing-Yu ChangThe daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies civil engineering.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsFei Fei FengKenny BeeAnthony ChanA romance develops between a blind man and a photographer.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsKenny BeeLing ChiangJing-Kuo YenDa-Nian is a young man from Taipei. He goes to a remote village and works as a substitute teacher. He and Su-Yun, another teacher at the school, fall in love. There are several students in his class who are like the naughty "three musketeers", and a sad, silent boy Xiang-Wang, who's parents are divorced. Besides, in order to support the family, Xian-Wang's father kills the fish in the river with electricity, which is against the law and causes a lot of damage to the natural resources. Because of this, Xian-Wang has been teased by other school children. At last, he becomes so upset and runs away from home...
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouChuang-Hsiang TsengJen WanStarsBor-Jeng ChenLi-Yin YangKuo-Feng TsengThree vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold War period.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsLin YangFan YangShu-Fen HsinThe eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsTien-Lu LiGiong LimKuei-Chung ChengPuppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsAnnie Shizuka InohGiong LimJack KaoIntended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan began with Beiqing Chengshi (1989), this film reveals the story through three levels: a film within a film as well as the past and present as linked by a young woman, Liang Ching. She is being persecuted by an anonymous man who calls her repeatedly but does not speak. He has stolen her diary and faxes her pages daily. Liang is also rehearsing for a new film that is due to go into production soon. The film, entitled Haonan Haonu, is about a couple Chiang Bi-yu and Chung Hao-tung who returns to China to participate in the anti-Japanese movement in China in the 1940s and are arrested as communists when they go back to Taiwan.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsJuliette BinocheHippolyte GirardotSimon IteanuA little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon.
- DirectorSylvia ChangTso-chi ChangArvin ChenStarsChia-Jui KouMing-shiou TsaiChi-Wen HsiehA collection of twenty short films by twenty different directors, all about Taiwan.