#taiwanese movies

[linghxr]

10 movies I watched in Chinese class

This post is the unofficial sequel to 10 iconic Mandopop songs from Chinese class. No one asked for it, but I watched to chronicle what I could remember before more fades from my memory! I saw these movies in Chinese class in high school and college, and I had to do some sleuthing to find some names.

The synopses are from IMDb, revised by me. I put links to watch for free on YouTube when I was able to find one, but they might not work in your country.

1. 《和你在一起》 Together (2002) A violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him.

Watch on YouTube

2. 《谁的青春不迷茫》 Yesterday Once More (2016) Lin Tianjiao, the top student in her class, is struggling to cope under intense academic pressure. After she is nearly caught cheating on a test, she befriends Gao Xiang, a free-spirited slacker.

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3. 《活着》 To Live (1994) Based on the novel by Yu Hua, four generations of the once-wealthy Xu family experience the difficult changes of the Chinese Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

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4. 《喜宴》 The Wedding Banquet (1993) To satisfy his parents, Gao Wai-Tung, a gay man in a fulfilling relationship with his partner Simon, marries his female tenant Wei-Wei. Things get out of hand when his parents come to visit.

5. 《饮食男女》 Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) A widowed chef lives with his three grown daughters, who each experience ups and downs in their lives and romantic relationships as they leave the family home.

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6. 《哑孩儿》 Dumb Child* (2016) After graduating from college, Fang Yan takes a job as a teacher in a rural area of China. There she meets a young girl named Yaya who doesn't attend school due to her hearing impairment.

Watch on YouTube

*Dumb as in mute. It's not a great English name...

7. 《重返20岁》 20 Once Again/Miss Granny (2015) A 70-year old woman living unhappily with her son's family is magically transformed into her 20-year-old self. She befriends her grandson and decides to fulfill the dreams of her youth.

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8. 《北京爱情故事》 Beijing Love Story (2014) Different generations look at love, romance, and commitment, all from a uniquely Beijing perspective. All 5 couples and stories are intertwined a la Love Actually.

9. 《蓝风筝》 The Blue Kite (1993) The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

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10. 《青春派》 Young Style (2013) Struggling with romantic woes after his plan to confess to his crush goes awry, Ju Ran fails the college entrance exam (gaokao) and is forced to repeat his last year of high school.

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[bl-is-totes-my-jam]

Almost 1 AM here and Im sobbing instead of taking care of myself xD (Will commence caretaking, don't worry)

[ladamarossa]

驚魂風雨夜  - Devil Returns (1982)

[theersatzcowboy]

Goodbye, Dragon Inn / 不散 (2003)

Tsai Ming-liang's elegiac masterpiece follows the final showing—of Taiwanese wuxia classic Dragon Inn (1967)—at a failing Taipei movie house, where ghosts, gays, and by-gone legends mingle, all haunting the theater in its final moments of life.

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

Cinematographer: Pen-Jung Liao

Starring: Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Jun Shih, Miao Tien, Chen Chao-jung, and Yang Kuei-mei

[jdramasource]

18x2 Beyond Youthful Days (2024) dir. Fujii Michihito

[escapismthroughfilm]

⋆˚｡ ⋆Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) dir. Tsai Ming-liang⋆˚｡ ⋆

[ahjong]

A Confucian Confusion (1994) dir. Edward Yang

[smittenskitten]

Wu Ming Han. I told you, 'Bang-Bang'. Why didn't you dodge it? You said it so slowly as if you are doing the bullet sounds.

[firelise]

Film & TV I Think About A Lot » Your Name Engraved Herein (2020) dir. Kuang-Hui Liu

"Maybe more people would understand me in hell. Make it easy for me and help me go to hell."

[angelagneau]

Spider Lilies (2007) dir. Zero Chou

[ladamarossa]

厲鬼纏身 - Split of the Spirit (1987)

[sofapup17]

Guys do you remember that scene where Ming Han was practicing his gay come hither face on Pang Yu to seduce that homophobe at the bar? And remember how he aced it on his last try and him and Pang Yu had a Moment™??? And then Ming Han said 'is this good enough' and an imperceptible flash of sorrow darted across Pang Yu's face because he forgot it was just practice???? He looked so devastated for a split second!! Bc that happened right????? I wasn't hallucinating or smth??????

[jdramasource]

18x2 Beyond Youthful Days (2024) dir. Fujii Michihito

[honeygleam]

that day, on the beach (1983) dir. edward yang

[mysterygrl20]

June 19, 2024 | Andy Bian

[ahjong]

A Confucian Confusion (1994) dir. Edward Yang