Yu Pei-Jen

In the near future, Taiwan has been occupied and became the province of an evil empire. Chased by the Regime, Yu escapes prison and meets Lien, a girl that will help her fleeing the country. However, their encounter will puzzle their plans and change their fate.

In the afternoon, at a café, a young woman waits for her date. As time passes and he still hasn't arrived, her mind races with countless possibilities. Finally, she decides to act on a troubling thought that has been lingering in the back of her mind…

On Green Island in the 1950s, the female thought prisoners chose to fight for freedom, but were more forcefully suppressed by the authority. They held on to their beliefs and hoping for true freedom to come.

Xie Junya is a teenage girl who possesses the innate ability to see the dead, a problem that has troubled her for a long time. She sought help at a temple, but the problem was not solved. Instead, many devotees gather to ask her questions about their deceased loved ones and even winning lottery numbers. Her work as a psychic leaves her with no time to practice baseball. What she really cares about is whether a guy in her school’s baseball team likes her. The boy she has a crush on invites Junya to his birthday party. However, there is a long line of people waiting at the temple for her advice. How will she choose between love and her sacred mission?

Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?

The film consists of three stories adapted from Japanese novelist Kanoko Okamoto's Farewell, To The Year Gone By and The House Spirit. Set in modern-day Taiwan, Japan's Yamagata, and Kuala Lumpur, they are the fantastical and humorous depiction of the landscapes of love between men and women in the 21st century. A slap in the face, a voice message, and a storm upend the quiet routine of life. They stir up memories, giving rise to pursuit, revenge and confrontation.

A-Tek is on a quest to find his favorite metal band, Chthonic, and persuade them to play a benefit protest concert in his southern Taiwan hometown. Can music save a Taiwanese homeowner from a Chinese land grab? He sure hopes so.

The Hotel Blackcat's owner, Mang, never leaves the counter. Guests include the immigrant worker, whore, losing-job Japanese, sex-abused man, little Lolita.... The police forces the Hotel to shut down and all guests must leave. What should they do? It's not necessary to lock each room anymore. Keep the door open, you'll find out traces imprinted with figures as well as times.

At its narrative heart is a ‘neo-noir’ thriller: a genre exploring the darker aspects of the modern world. A young woman on the margins of society is desperate enough to sell her own blood. But when her rare blood type is sought after for a high-level political figure, a game of cat and mouse ensues between her, the buyer, and the black market forces that would happily kill the girl for her valuable lifeblood.

A loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a lusty gymnastics teacher, a geeky college student, a single father with his young daughter, a gay couple, a writer and a sexy female office worker. An incredible story is about to unfold as they start their lives in the same building.

Do you often feel inexplicably disturbed in this cold, unconcerned city? Those things we are used to but not specifically noticed are not caused by supernatural or spiritual phenomena, but the daily, under-the-surface crises sparked by the fear, ignorance and indifference around us. This is a series without ghosts, monsters, supernatural or sci-fi components. Every story in Urban Horror is happening around us...