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Photos from the Sun Zone capsule showing at the Asia Fashion Collection Fall 2024 runway event in New York.

Photos from the YAXIN ZONE capsule showing at the Asia Fashion Collection Fall 2024 runway event in New York.

The Japanese remake of Taiwanese romantic fantasy My Missing Valentine attempts to address some of the original film’s deeply problematic issues in its story about consent – but fails.

Taipei-based digital studio is bringing work from international clients including Netflix, EuropaCorp, MBC Group and India’s Zee to Taiwan. 

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I’d forgotten my boots, and I hadn’t anticipated such clear weather, so I’d not brought a hat. But I was willing to risk sunburn and wet feet to get a proper look at this part of the southwest coast. Photos online had triggered my curiosity about Chiayi County’s Shoudao (壽島). As is true for many toponyms, a literal translation of Shoudao (“Longevity Island”) would be misleading. In this case, it’d also be ironic. The inaccuracy is that only recently has part of it been an islan...

Five Taiwanese films have been selected to be screened at the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF), which starts today and runs through Sunday next week. The five films are Chung Mong-hong’s (鍾孟宏) The Falls (瀑布), Edward Yang’s (楊德昌) Taipei Story (青梅竹馬), Chen Yu-hsun’s (陳玉勳) My Missing Valentine (消失的情人節), Chang Yao-sheng’s (張耀升) A Leg (腿) and Ko Chien-nien’s (柯貞年) The Silent Forest (無聲). Chung presented a story from a female ...

2021/07/29 13:36 (NYAFF website image) (NYAFF website image) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) will feature five Taiwanese dramas this year. NYAFFs 20th edition is slated to screen over 60 films from China, Japan, and South Korea, including action movies, comedies, and thrillers. The screenings will be both online and at Lincoln Center starting Aug 6., according to CNA. According to the official website, five Taiwanese movies wil...

Four Taiwanese films, including the multiple Golden Horse Award-winning movies <i>My Missing Valentine</i> (消失的情人節) and <i>Dear Tenant</i> (親愛的房客), are to make their US premieres at the semi-annual Asian Pop-Up Cinema film festival in Chicago opening today, the Ministry of Culture said on Friday. For its 12th edition, which runs from today to May 1, the festival would showcase 33 films from Asia in a series of online and drive-in events, the ministry...

Plot According to Netflixs press release, "Director Huang Hsin-Yao continued his directing style in The Great Buddha+ and narrated his own film once again. Along with Huangs fly-on-the-wall narration, the four protagonists express their views on the meaning of life through candid conversations." The director said, "when directing Classmates Minus, I thought about the people and phenomena that Ive observed in Taiwan over the years. The characters are ordinary people. There is nothing out of the ...