Movies: Huang Hsin-Yao

A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride....

Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies' will, something horrifyin...

Four school buddies — a director, a temp worker, an insurance salesman and a paper craftsman — grapple with unfulfilled dreams amid middle age ennui....

After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions....

Xiao Hong is a shy 29-year-old man who works in an aquarium fish store and lets his overprotective mother boss him around in all aspects of his life. His cousin decides to take him to a seedy hotel where Sister Lele oversees the prostitution business...

On the night of their high school graduation, three delinquents decide to exchange their darkest, most unspeakable secret....

Secret policeman Agent Seven, tasked with surveilling underground reformist agitators, falls in love with their outspoken leader. Following a mass arrest, he barges in on her brutal assault by his colleague. He kills the malefactor and she escapes. A...

A Buddha statue, three middle-aged men and a mysterious woman. The unexpected encounter among them creates a story of suspense. Will the Buddha protect everyone of us? or does He choose the right ones at His own will?...

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The wetland in Kouhu township, Yunlin County has once been cultivated as farmland but returned to its original state nowadays, The beautiful scenery in the eyes of tourists are nothing but trouble to local residents........

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Tuvalu, This defenseless nation of 26 square kilometers will be the first island nation to be submerged by the oceans once the sea level rises due to global warming. The director Huang Hsin-yao left his hometown after the 88 flooding disaster in Taiw...

Yonaguni is an island on the far western end of Japan, bordering Taiwan. One day, the people of Yonaguni decided they wanted independence and to establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. These two islands share similar backgrounds. Both are in the ...

A commentary of Huang Hsin-yao´s "Contact Prints of Baileng Canal", explaining the history of the canal and presenting other renowned aqueducts of Japan, Italy, Spain and France....

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In August 2009, Typhoon Morakot killed hundreds and caused irreversible damage to Taiwan. On the Alishan Mountains, the rainfall destroyed its forest railway and badly damaged its tourism industry for years. Huang Hsin-yao initially went up the mount...

"Where was he pushing the car toward? I don't know. Maybe, just for the sake of it. Sometimes, making films, I shoot just for the sake of it."...

This is a documentary on "Tai-ke" male-bonding, and a story about the lost and found of life. The director uses black humor in depicting the lives and encounters of each person through out a period of ten years....

Huang Hsin-yao began studying documentary filmmaking in order to make a difference as an ecological activist. While attending Tainan University of the Arts, Huang made this film as a continuation of a previous documentary about the salt evaporation p...

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