Adapted from Essay Liu's tearjerking autobiographical essay that won Taiwan's top literacy award, Seven Days in Heaven is a sentimental and insightful comedy about the formalities of death. Mei's father just passed away. She and relatives domestic and abroad set off for their home village to attend the 7-day traditional mourning ritual hosted by a Daoist priest in rural Taiwan.

"Trouble is cooking for widower and master chef Chu who's about to discover that no matter how dazzling and delicious his culinary creations might be, they're no match for the libidinous whims of his three beautiful but rebellious daughters. A master in the kitchen, Chu is at a loss when it comes to the ingredients of being a father. Every Sunday, he whips up a delicacy of dishes for his ungrateful daughters, who are so self-consumed that they don't...

China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai. His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress, this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped,...

Sid, the rebellious son of Kwan, a savage Hong Kong triad boss, escapes to Taiwan upon enraging his father's adversary, a powerful underground business leader. Hiding out in the mountains, Sid encounters a group of Zen drummers. Their mesmerizing art, rigorous training, and austere way of life pique the hostile urban young man's interest and he asks to join the group. Although Sid despises his father, he is turning out to be a younger version of...

In the wake of her father's death, a woman discovers two distant sisters she knows little about. But with her own relationship uncertain and the future of her departed father's hot pot restaurant in question, she reaches out to them. She finds that while their upbringing is different, they too have experienced similar trials and tribulations in their past. Her sister from the Mainland is pressured by her elderly grandmother to get married; her sister...

Ti is a really poor construction worker who struggles to keep his son, Dicky, in private school. One day he mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy his son has been heavily requesting, since all of the classmates have it. But this object turns out to be an alien creature with regenerative powers that will end up teaching important lessons to both father and son. Amidst a dramatic turn of events, Dicky is confronted with the harsh realities...

DVD : "Dafu is one of the million autism patients in China: He looks absent-minded, repeats other people's words, swims with amazing ease, keeps everything at home in exact order ... and maybe he is not totally aware of his mother's death some years ago. Working in an aquarium, Wang Xicheng takes tender care of this twenty-two year-old son of his. With the generous help of the neighbors, the two live happily together. Yet, the father understands very...

When a female student confronts her rapist and accidentally kills him, her mother helps her bury the dead man, and her father comes up with a complicated alibi based on his encyclopedic knowledge of crime films. The young man happens to have an ambitious politician for a father and a morally corrupt police chief for a mother, and with personal stakes in this crime, the victim's family begins a deadly game to catch their son's killer.

Xu Yun, a teenager from a remote village, travels to the big city of Zigong, Sichuan Province with only a basket of poultry on his back. His mission is to find and retrieve his errant father, who walked out on his family six years before.

Would-be immigrant Er Di is expelled from the United States for working illegally. The son he fathered in the U.S. comes to China but Er Di is barred from seeing him. At the same time, he becomes involved with a member of a touring Shanghai opera company and tries to resolve the conflicts between his past and future.