# Taiwanese New Cinema — Hou, Yang, Tsai, and the island's quiet revolution

> From the early 1980s, a handful of Taiwanese directors made some of the most formally accomplished films in world cinema. Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness (1989) broke the silence on the 228 Incident. Edward Yang's Yi Yi (2000) is a four-hour family epic that Roger Ebert called one of the greatest films ever made. Tsai Ming-liang stripped cinema to its bones — water, loneliness, Taipei apartments. Ang Lee started here before Hollywood. These films move slowly and hit hard.

Source: <https://nextmovie4u.com/canon/taiwanese-new-cinema/>

## 24 films in this list

- **[A Brighter Summer Day](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/a-brighter-summer-day-1991/)** (1991) — ★ 8.3 · 383 votes
- **[Yi Yi](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/yi-yi-2000/)** (2000) — ★ 7.9 · 665 votes
- **[Eat Drink Man Woman](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/eat-drink-man-woman-1994/)** (1994) — ★ 7.6 · 398 votes
- **[A Touch of Zen](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/a-touch-of-zen-1970/)** (1970) — ★ 7.6 · 223 votes
- **[A City of Sadness](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/a-city-of-sadness-1989/)** (1989) — ★ 7.5 · 151 votes
- **[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-2000/)** (2000) — ★ 7.4 · 3,545 votes · foreign-gem, bittersweet, epic
- **[Taipei Story](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/taipei-story-1985/)** (1985) — ★ 7.4 · 133 votes
- **[Our Times](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/our-times-2015/)** (2015) — ★ 7.4 · 177 votes
- **[Red Cliff II](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/red-cliff-ii-2009/)** (2009) — ★ 7.3 · 489 votes
- **[Lust, Caution](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/lust-caution-2007/)** (2007) — ★ 7.3 · 796 votes
- **[The Time to Live and the Time to Die](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-time-to-live-and-the-time-to-die-1985/)** (1985) — ★ 7.2 · 108 votes
- **[Vive L'Amour](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/vive-l-amour-1995/)** (1995) — ★ 7.2 · 158 votes
- **[The Wedding Banquet](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-wedding-banquet-1993/)** (1993) — ★ 7.2 · 288 votes
- **[Red Cliff](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/red-cliff-2008/)** (2008) — ★ 7.1 · 883 votes
- **[The Hole](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-hole-1999/)** (1999) — ★ 7.0 · 93 votes
- **[Millennium Mambo](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/millennium-mambo-2001/)** (2001) — ★ 7.0 · 250 votes
- **[Three Times](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/three-times-2005/)** (2005) — ★ 7.0 · 102 votes
- **[Reign of Assassins](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/reign-of-assassins-2010/)** (2010) — ★ 6.9 · 281 votes
- **[The Soul](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-soul-2021/)** (2021) — ★ 6.9 · 101 votes
- **[Flowers of Shanghai](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/flowers-of-shanghai-1998/)** (1998) — ★ 6.9 · 113 votes
- **[The Sadness](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-sadness-2021/)** (2021) — ★ 6.8 · 1,101 votes
- **[Goodbye, Dragon Inn](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/goodbye-dragon-inn-2003/)** (2003) — ★ 6.8 · 178 votes
- **[The River](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-river-1997/)** (1997) — ★ 6.7 · 79 votes
- **[The Puppetmaster](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-puppetmaster-1993/)** (1993) — ★ 6.6 · 56 votes

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