Blue Gate Crossing (2002)

“Should you give your first kiss to the boy who likes you or the girl you like?” MENG Ker-Rou and LIN Yue-Zhen are high school friends who can talk to each other about everything and anything. On the school grounds one early summer, Yue-Zhen  develops a crush on the charming ZHANG Shih-Hao, and asks Ker-Rou to help her pass on a love letter to him. Ker-Rou is furious upon discovering that the letter was actually written in her name, but by then, Shih-Hao had already madly fallen in love with her.

Hebei. Taipei (2015)

LI was born in Hebei Province of China, and the war brought him to Taiwan where he has spent his past six decades. LI never returns to his hometown again, but has revisited it countless times in his dreams. However, whenever he dreams of it, he sees blood flowing all over the place. Seeing himself in the mirror, he cannot bear his hair turning grey. Therefore, he puts on a wig and a women’s dress, trying to make up all those years wasted when he was young…

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