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Millennium Mambo(2001)

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Eat Drink Man Woman(1994)

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Yi Yi(2000)

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Apolitical Romance(2013)

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Paradise in Service(2014)

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Twa-Tiu-Tiann(2014)

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The Time to Live and the Time to Die(1985)

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Terrorizers(1986)

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