Lawrence Ko Yu-Luen

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

Dir. Ang Lee · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.

Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien · With Chien-wen Wang, Hsin Shu-Fen, Li Tian-Lu

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.

Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien · With Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Liao Su-jen