Best Taiwanese animation movies

The Lighthouse (2010)

Red Balloon (2017)

Sometimes you are the only one that can really see what’s out there.

Confusion of the Afternoon (2023)

Two boys play poker on a dull afternoon. As one boy inadvertently touches and makes eye contact with the other, it sparks a beautiful, imaginative dance.

Meat Days (2006)

In a chaotic time of men eating men, A-e gets some human meat by selling her body…

A Fish with a Smile (2006)

Moving story about a lonely man who finds solace and company in his pet fish.

Deathigner (2013)

Little Death, child of The Grim Reaper, have problems to follow the steps of his infamous father.

Doraemon: Robot War (1983)

Nobita and friends engage in an all out robot war in this unofficial installment of the Doraemon series.

Golden Surge (2021)

Hong Kong is facing tyranny, and a pair of brothers are marching on their own ways in the revolution. However, the horror is approaching, and it’s like this city knows everything, it reborns after it collapses. There seems to be a huge energy behind this, asking inwardly: What is the fight for?

Scapegoat (2019)

A story about bullying. Someone will be chosen as a scapegoat for no reason.

Moist (2019)

Little Hilly (2020)

Hilly is a 10-year-old silent Taiwanese girl. Nobody cares about her depression and the pressure she suffers. Hilly hates that she always oppresses herself, and also hates the world controlled by adults. What does Hilly really want to speak to the adults?

The Drawer of Memory (2006)

The story is about an old women with a drawer on her body. This drawer is full of the memory of her passed husband. She puts things into the drawer every day to look for the shadow of him.

Reminisce me with the time of a day (2015)

A story about memories.

Fallen Leaves Return to Film (2016)

Lying quietly in a cine-camera, a film awaits to fulfill its responsibility of projecting 24 frames of images per second after exposure. Nonetheless, I prefer rolling out films outright and fiddling with them by pigments application, collage, scratch, cut-and-mix, etc. Since these are camera-less measures, the projection is unpredictable, surprising, and often so astonishing that I would be mesmerized.

The Empress (2020)

In an ancient Eastern Kingdom, an emperor was controlled by the ministers. The emperor could not stand it and escaped from the palace

Wong, Bitter Gourd (2019)

A story, between father and son, happened round dinner table in the kitchen. "Bland lunch, day after day. the father who lives in the fridge. Discontented son. Inside the kitchen. Repast. Communication. Genes. On the verge of breaking out." Father and son came into a conflict because of a decision made by the son. To indicate the relationship between them through their reaction on that circumstances. We are all have some dissatisfaction with our parent’s personality,but meanwhile,we will gradually find them in yourself when you are growing up. The trepidation and the contradictory state.

On My Way Home (2022)

We are always going faster on the way back home. In the experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the protons apparently only exist for a billionth of a second, travelling at approximately the speed of light. Feelings are broadcasted like the passing of time.

Grand Adventure Railroad (2020)

When a luxurious family touring train halts in a pitch black tunnel, an uninvited creature sneaks on board.

Neon (2017)

This is a love story. Colourless, tasteless, odourless. We cannot see it, until it is stimulated and glows with dazzling light.

Reminisce me with the time of a day (2016)

A short film that has a purely core and talks about memory.

The Pumpkin of Nyefar (2004)

The Pumpkin of Nyefar is a short directed by Tod Polson and Mark Oftedal. The story was co-written by Maurice Noble, who began his animation career at Disney in the 1930s, and eventually designed many of Chuck Jones’s classic Warner Bros. cartoons including Duck Dodgers in the 24th Century and What’s Opera, Doc?. The film is narrated by June Foray (the voice of Rocky in Rocky and Bullwinkle).

The Day When Phoenix Flowers Blossomed (2021)

A mother ran into a monster on her way home. She was dragged into a surreal world, where she discovered her son's suppressed inner side. As she slowly discovered the truth, a tragedy was also foreshadowed.

Taipei, Taipei (1993)

The film was produced independently which used clay and other materials for landscaping to shoot on 16mm film. It shows that Taiwan's metropolis, mainly Taipei, has undergone rapid changes in the times, with vigorous vitality but disorder and lack of overall urban planning.