Best Feature Film
Kung Fu Hustle (
Best Director
Stephen Chow (
Best Leading Actor
Aaron Kwok (
Best Leading Actress
Shu Qi (
Best Supporting Actor
Anthony Wong (
Best Supporting Actress
Yuen Qiu (
Best New Performer
Jay Chou (
Best Original Screenplay
Yau Nai-hoi (游乃海) and Yip Tin-shing (葉天成) for Election (黑社會)
Best Screenplay Adaptation
Feng Xiao-gang (
Best Visual Effects
Frankie Chung (
Best Film Editing
Yau Chu-wai (
Best Action Choreography
Lau Kar-leung (
Best Original Film Score
Lee Cin-yun (
Best Original Film Song
James Ho (
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Best Sound Effects
May Mok (
Best Cinematography
Anthony Pun (
Best Art Direction
Wong Yi-fei (
Best Make up and Costume Design
Shirley Chan (
Best Documentary
Jump! Boys (
Best Short Film
How's Life (
Best Animation
The Fire Ball (
The Best Taiwan Film Professional of the Year
Hou Hsiao-hsien (
The Best Taiwan Film of the Year
Three Times (
In 1990, Amy Chen (陳怡美) was beginning third grade in Calhoun County, Texas, as the youngest of six and the only one in her family of Taiwanese immigrants to be born in the US. She recalls, “my father gave me a stack of typed manuscript pages and a pen and asked me to find typos, missing punctuation, and extra spaces.” The manuscript was for an English-learning book to be sold in Taiwan. “I was copy editing as a child,” she says. Now a 42-year-old freelance writer in Santa Barbara, California, Amy Chen has only recently realized that her father, Chen Po-jung (陳伯榕), who
Famed Chinese demographer Yi Fuxian (易富賢) recently wrote for The Diplomat on the effects of a cross-strait war on demography. He contended that one way to deter the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is by putting the demographic issue front and center — last year total births in the PRC, he said, receded to levels not seen since 1762. Yi observes that Taiwan’s current fertility rate is already lower than Ukraine’s — a nation at war that is refusing to send its young into battle — and that its “demographic crisis suggests that Taiwan’s technological importance will rapidly decline, and
For anyone on board the train looking out the window, it must have been a strange sight. The same foreigner stood outside waving at them four different times within ten minutes, three times on the left and once on the right, his face getting redder and sweatier each time. At this unique location, it’s actually possible to beat the train up the mountain on foot, though only with extreme effort. For the average hiker, the Dulishan Trail is still a great place to get some exercise and see the train — at least once — as it makes its way
When nature calls, Masana Izawa has followed the same routine for more than 50 years: heading out to the woods in Japan, dropping his pants and doing as bears do. “We survive by eating other living things. But you can give faeces back to nature so that organisms in the soil can decompose them,” the 74-year-old said. “This means you are giving life back. What could be a more sublime act?” “Fundo-shi” (“poop-soil master”) Izawa is something of a celebrity in Japan, publishing books, delivering lectures and appearing in a documentary. People flock to his “Poopland” and centuries-old wooden “Fundo-an” (“poop-soil house”) in
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