I noticed that he had a bit part in Once Upon a Time in Mexico…
That’s “Postmen in the Mountain”
asianfilms.org/china/nashan.html
or in Chinese 那山那人那夠.
The director of that movie was at a Chinese film festival at my college three or four years ago. During the Q&A afterwards, several overseas Chinese people were ragging on him (in Chinese) because the characters in the movie spoke Mandarin instead of the local Hunanese dialect. I stepped up and told them in Chinese to get off his nuts, because that was a really nice movie and not everyone has to be like Zhang Yimou and use local dialects. It was one of my proudest moments in my Chinese language career.
I found a 300NT$ copy of “Not one less” 一個都不能少 and “The Road home” 我的父親母親 at the 69 NT shop opposite of Taida. Both are supposed to have English subtitles (sorry, I bought them, and I don’t know if they have any more 
).
That would be “The way home”, 有你真好in Chinese. I’d still like to know if it has English subtitles or not.
Another one I liked was “Breaking the Silence” 漂亮媽媽 where Gong Li stars as the single mother of a deaf boy who is trying to make a living in contemporary Beijing. I’ve never seen it here, though.
Iris
Farewell My Concubine and Huozhe (To Live) are my favourites. Farewell gets right into the cultural revolution :fume: and both are a good intro to the Mao period if that’s what tickles you. 
I liked a HK film I saw almost 10 years ago starring Maggie Chueng.
The premise was that she was a career woman and has a Chinese BF and a White BF at the same time. She gets pregnant and spends the rest of the movie wondering if the kids eyes will be “blue” or “brown.”
Really funny and not a social commentary that tries to shove social values down ones throat.
I saw copies of Li An’s (Ang Lee’s) Pushing Hands 推手 at Guanghua and picked one up. It wasn’t as good as The Wedding Banquet, but still very good.
I also recently saw Blind Shaft 盲井 here in the States. It was excellent – a very passionate but not simplistic exploration of problems in mainland. Is that available in Taiwan?
Personally, I reckon you can’t go wrong with anything by Stephen Chiau Sing-chi (Zhou Xingchi, I think). He’s absolutely hilarious, and Shaolin Soccer (Shaolin Zuqiu) was genius.
Best HK film I’ve seen in years, though, definitely has to be Infernal Affairs. I even managed to get a copy of it this past weekend on VCD with English subtitles!!! (And I just bought the novelisation of 1&2, and am debating whether to have a crack at translating it.)
[quote=“Pfeffersack”]I was totally amazed by Internal Affairs. The first part was among the best cop/bad guy movies I’ve seen … the second part is mamahuhu, and with the 3rd part, they just tried to make some more bucks out of it.
Someone even told ma that they are planning to make a Hollywood-remake of it with Brad Pitt 
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Yep, Brad Pitt will play Andy Lau (Liu Dehua)'s role (this was first confirmed by Andy himself in a CNN interview), Leonardo Di Caprio will play Tony Leung (Liang Chaowei)'s character.
Don’t worry though, there’s still hope. Andrew Lau (Liu Weiqiang), the producer and one of the directors of the original (at least), is working closely with the American crew, and you know who’s directing the American version?
Martin Scorsese.
I always liked Shaolin Temple, Li Lianjie’s first movie (he was 17 at the time). The bad guy in that movie, martial arts master Pan Qingfu eventually emigrated to my hometown just outside of Toronto…
I also like Jackie Chan’s earlier HK movies. Police Story, Operation Phoenix, Project A, Miracle, all remind me of when I first got to Taiwan and passed many a hot afternoon in the cool air-conditioned comfort of an MTV room, acquaninting myself with local culture.
Zhang Yimou’s stuff is too damn depressing, but I’ve always get a little woozy when I see Gong Li. :lovestruck:
When I moved back here to Oz I saw a a wonderful Taiwanese film on the plane - Green Door. Just a simple story of teenage love. Some great night shots of Taipei.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/BlueGateCrossing-1127657/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0333764/
Blue Gate Crossing (2003)
By the way,main characters in the movie are students of the High School of National Taiwan Normal University, or the High School of “ShiDa”.
It’s one of the best high schools in Taiwan.
[quote=“cybertai”]http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/BlueGateCrossing-1127657/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0333764/
Blue Gate Crossing (2003)
By the way,main characters in the movie are students of the High School of National Taiwan Normal University, or the High School of “Shi-Da”.
It’s one of the best high schools in Taiwan.[/quote]
“Green Door” / “Blue Gate Crossing”… ekk, but yeah thats the one - thx cybertai!!! Was a terrific movie.
Maybe I just had too much Shakin Stevens as a kid?
Better Than Sex
[quote=“cableguy”]I really enjoyed a movie I watched in the states called, I believe, Yi-Yi. It was a very interesting movie but I haven’t seen it in Taiwan so I don’t know if it is available here or not.
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It’s my all-time favorite movie.
[url=http://www.orlandoweekly.com/movies/reviews/review.asp?movie=840]Edward Yang
Shaolin Soccer (although I had a pretty bad buzzkill after seeing it when I got home from the theater and turned on my TV just in time to see the second plane slam into the WTC).
City of Sadness: Fantastic 228 film, shot in Jiufen (actually put Jiufen on the map as the tourist trap it is today)
Stinking Fart King: YEAH!!! I was just wondering this morning what Hau Hsiao-wen looks like now…
Twentysomething Taipei: Go it for the boobs, stay for the drug scenes! Lots of Taipei hangouts featured. Did I mention the nudity?
Better Than Sex: Great soundtrack, great jokes, wish I could find it out here.
There’s also a hong kong movie maowang and I once saw on Taichung cable about an old man who takes viagra with his old friends, where it then cuts to men dressed up as sperm being whipped into shape by a big muscley guy dressed in a viagra pill costume singing “laaaaai, qi lai qi lai qi laaaaaaaiii!” Anyone know what that’s called?
Rock and Roll Kids and Beijing Bastards: rare Beijing Blackboard-Jungle-Meets-Catholic-Highschool-Girls-In-Trouble gang movies from the '80’s. Big, big big rimmed glasses, mullets and headbands! Yow!
Black Cannon Incident: Another PRC film, satirizes China’s mid-80’s rush for foreign technology by pitting a regular joe-blow chinese guy interpreter against an imported Grerman engineer as they build a mystery machine only known as “the Dynamo”. Pretty good send up for a Chinese film.
Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk(?) I & II, some of the best action sequences ever, and sweet sound track too!
Hard-Boiled, classic for a reason
Jackie Chan’s early work, like Snake and Crane arts of Shaolin, unknown to most, but pure gold (if u ignore the some of the acting)
Sweet, theres some good stuff on there. And lots I’ve never heard of that I can now look forward to watching
OMG how could I have forgotten A Better Tomorrow!?
[quote=“iris”]I started watching a movie last weekend and within the first five minutes completely fell in love with it. The title is 綠茶Green Tea. Another one I loved was 給我一只貓 Drop me a cat which was set in Taipei.
I guess I could go on and on… Though there are many out there that I haven’t seen (yet?).
What unknown little Chinese/Taiwanese movies do you like?
Iris[/quote]
Not One Less
The King of Masks
Eat Drink Man Woman
I was also intrigued by an artsy flick called The Hole.
Love Without End. You figure out the year! 