Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity
Contains outstanding educational programs. Many programs from the History Channel, Biography Channel, BBC, PBS and other news channels are included in this collection.
A collection of documentaries, newsreels, and features that reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British, and Latin American filmmakers. It ranges from the early twentieth century to the 1980s and examines the themes of War & Revolution, News & Current Affairs plus Culture & Society.
East Asian film collection housed in UCSD Library. Please see the title list in the UCSD library catalog.
Underground Films/Independent Films housed in UCSD Library. Please see the title list in the UCSD library catalog.
10 + 10/十加十 by
A Collection of Taiwanese short films
Au revoir Taipei 一页台北 by
"Kai, a lovesick young man, wants to leave Taipei in hopes of getting to Paris to be with his girlfriend. Kai spends long nights in a bookstore studying French, where Susie, a girl who works there, begins to take an interest in him. After one extraordinary night, Kai finds the excitement and romance he was longing for are already right there in Taipei."--IMDB
Buddha bless America 太平天國 by
In the late '60s, a remote village in southern Taiwan is chosen as the site for some US Army war games; the villagers, promised compensation for the damage to their homes and crops, are resettled in the schoolhouse while the smartest local entrepreneur builds a temporary nightclub to keeps the GIs entertained. Finally the US Army leaves. However the film ends with a question: is America really gone?
KANO by
In 1928, Taiwan was under Japanese rule. The Kagi Agriculture and Forestry Public School was established to help develop the local agricultural. The KANO baseball team started out as a sports club to improve students' physique. It never thought that the arrival of coach Kondo would completely transform them to become legend
Le Moulin 日曜日式散步者 by
"It was when Taiwan was in a stable period of cultural assimilation during the past forty years of Japanese colonial rule that the country's first modern literature group, Le Moulin Poetry Society, arose in the 1930s, with their poetic protest against the colonial power's cultural superiority. The name reflected the group's orientation towards the West while especially strongly influenced by France. Regarding the Surrealists as their absolute role models, Le Moulin poets composed poetry in an uncompromising and aesthetically sophisticated style to confront the turbulent era they lived in. Le Moulin not only tries to record a historical period that paved the way for a new freedom and self-awareness, but also to explore how Asian Modernist writers reinvent Modernism through encountering foreign culture and their contemplation upon identities"--Container
Terrorizers 恐怖份子 by
A women writer, unsatisfied with her marriage, writes an award-winning novel based on her inner feelings and her imagination. Ironically, her life begins to follow the plot of the novel, as her husband attacks her lover and then commits suicide
Viva Tonal – The Dance Age (跳舞時代) by
Documentary about popular music in Taiwan in the 1930s, a period known as "the dance age."
Warriors of the raibow 賽德克・巴萊 (Seedia Bale) by
After Japan invades Taiwan in 1930, the native Seediq people are in danger of losing their culture and way of life. The men are taken from their traditional lives as hunters and forced to perform hard labor at low wages. The women are taken away to be household workers for the Japanese. The Seediq are also forbidden to tattoo their faces, which many believe is necessary to cross the 'Rainbow Bridge' after death. The Seediq men plan to go to war against the Japanese to fight for their freedom
地獄新娘 by
Bai Ruimei falls on hard times and is forced to get a job. She gets a position as a governess for the spoiled daughter of Wang Yiming. She hears all sorts of gossip about the family and determines to discover whether or not it's true
