Chou She-Wei

Gao Fei firmly believes that he will become successful if he heads all the way to the West! He flew to New York, hoping to fly high and win big. Will his dream come true? The film features Ang LEE as the leading role, marking a rare performance of the great filmmaker on screen.

A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him and return home. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws and weirdoes.

After her mother died, the youngest daughter has been dreaming about her dead mother for nights. In the dreams, her mother expresses her will not to be buried next to her dead husband. On the seventh night after the mother’s death, the hidden past of the family was finally revealed.

Two boys uncover their boss's drug stash, leading to theft and sale. Their actions provoke a confrontation, resulting in a larger catastrophe that casts an irreversible shadow over their lives.

The fifteen-year-old Xiao-Yu desires a perfect and happy family, but she actually suffers from domestic violence. One day, her mother disappears. Summer vacation is around the corner. A summer thunderstorm strikes in the afternoon. Xiao-Yu wonders if there is a right and safe way to home.