Sam Yang

On Green Island in the 1950s, the female thought prisoners chose to fight for freedom, but were more forcefully suppressed by the authority. They held on to their beliefs and hoping for true freedom to come.

Born never to cry, Fish seeks his missing mother through the underworld. He believes her ghost is imprisoned within a deity puppet — yet, it conceals neither his mother nor an informant, but a survivor. Through the puppet’s mouth, the seaside street’s buried past unfolds.

Post-election tensions rise as the acting president provokes China, leading to PLA drills and looming invasion. As Zero Day nears, the president must choose war, and the island faces a critical choice for its future.

In the face of collusion between officials and businessmen and threats and temptations, journalists from "Firewire News" try to uphold justice, stick to their ideals, and write the most authentic and most emotional news reports.

Muqi, a young pop star becomes more and more arrogant, especially with his manager Nagatsuki, a long-time friend who suddenly commits suicide. Muqi finds himself crushed by sadness and guilt. At the funeral, he meets Master Bensheng, guru of a cult his friend belonged to. If at first, he finds comfort within his place, cracks may soon appear in the caring appearances of the cult members.

Through the stories of nine kids living in the Chinese Shopping Mall, this film depicts their diverse and magical life experiences. In the summer of 1985, while Xiaobudian (the tiny one) was at the fourth grade, he was already a convincing street vendor, who sold stuff for allowance on a skywalk every day. Xiaobudian’s father is a shoe shop owner who was doing business in the Chinese Shopping Mall. One day, a magician from nowhere showed up in the mall. He had a treasure bowl and a zebra capable of emitting colorful lights, and he was able to make countless magic tricks. Xiaobudian admired this magician, and bought magic props for practice every day. At the same time, more and more boys and girls in the mall have met this mysterious magician, and gained life-changing power after they watched the magic show.

In the 1990s, Cai, a foreman on an MRT tunnel project, leads his crew of workers into the depths of underground construction. In order to pay for his daughter’s music classes, with his co-workers, each with his own dreams, they unexpectedly unearth a mysterious katana deep within the tunnel, after which a series of uncanny coincidences begin to unfold. In the meantime, Mei-li, the first female construction chief in Taiwan, was striving to prove herself in a site dominated by men. However, because of that, she experienced a journey full of crises. As the project progresses, workers begin to exhibit symptoms of decompression sickness. When the answer surfaced gradually, where were those people supposed to go? In this drama of workplace politics, mysteries and relationships, let’s see if these invincible underdogs were able to ask God for something. Was the mysterious power in the tunnel a blessing or curse?