Movies: Bai Lan

An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII....

Lung’s wife was raped and murdered, and the killer escaped justice. Consumed by grief and rage, Lung killed him and fled to Hong Kong, only to fall into the hands of a snakehead gang and be forced into a life of crime as a bank robber....

A psychologically unstable man accidentally kills a junkie, sparking a cat-and-mouse game with a clever inspector who befriends the man's mother to expose the truth....

Ah Wei used to be a policeman but his many battle scars and bullet wounds have demoted him to the daily grind of a sercurity guard. His existence is anything but boring, however, as this Hong Kong film like all the others, thrives on shoot-outs, chas...

A paratrooper Kiyohio meets a beautiful tour guide Shumei. The two hit it off and fall in love, but she'd already promised engagement to a childhood friend off at war....

Taiwanese language film. Qiren and Bilian are a couple who are bullies by the Japanese during the occupation. Qiren wounds one officer and is sent to the labor service team to serve in prison. Will they eventually see each other again after the Jap...

The story is based on a play written by famous playwright Yao Yiwei whose work takes adaptation from the novel in Sung Dynasty. The film describes Xiuxiu, a daughter of an aristocrat,who falls in love with her cousin who is a talented sculptor. Never...

Comedy about five married couples — a pair of parents and their four daughters and sons-in-law. Li Li Hua plays the eldest girl, opposite her real-life husband Yean Chuan....

An espionage story taken place in Xiamen....

Taiwanese Language film from 1957, directed by Hsieh Sun...

Hokkien language cinema. As a child Yuchun was betrothed to Sanliu, who has physical and mental disabilities. Both of Dongshan's parents died, and he grew up with Yuchun and Sanliu. With help, Dongshan left his hometown and went to Keelung to comple...

Spy Red Rose...

The son of Wu Village elder Datong (Brother Wang) is unrequitedly in love with the village girl Cuicui (Bai Lan). One day Datong is changing Cuicui, Chen Zhongyi (Chen Yang), a college student who was returning home to visit relatives, passes by and ...

Made as Taiwan’s economy took off in the 1960s, Early Train from Taipei is a classic country-to-city melodrama of development. To save her bankrupt rural family, Xiulan takes the train to Taipei to earn money. Boyfriend Huotu is horrified to find she...