Recent Taiwanese dramas
The newest titles in the archive, by air date.
Taiwanese food and drink
What it is, how it is eaten, and where it came from.
Taiwanese culture
The customs, the clothes and the words behind them.
Taiwan: where to start
Taiwan is the country on this site people arrive at last and then cannot work out why they waited. This page is the index to what is here: 6 dramas, 4 films, 9 people and 4 guides, each one a record with sourced fields rather than a paragraph of opinion, and all of it linked so a title leads to a face and a face leads back to everything else that person made.
Two things make Taiwan on screen worth separating from its neighbours. The first is that the modern idol drama was effectively invented here. Meteor Garden went out in 2001, turned its four male leads into a band, and set a template that Korean and Japanese television spent the following decade answering. The second is what happened after the industry stopped being able to outspend anyone: Taiwanese production went narrow and specific instead, which is why a political drama set inside a campaign office and a found-footage horror film shot for a million dollars both travelled further than anything with a larger budget behind them.
Where to watch is the question this site answers the same way every time. Every title page carries a "Where to watch" block naming the platforms licensed in your region, whether that is Netflix, a Taiwanese broadcaster or a theatrical release with no stream at all. We do not host anything and we do not link to unlicensed copies. If a title has no licensed platform where you are, the page says so rather than sending you looking.
Cast is where the archive earns its name. An actor is entered once, on the cast list of the title they appeared in, and their profile builds its own filmography by reading that relationship backwards. Open Someday or One Day, click Greg Hsu, and Marry My Dead Body is already there with the year and the billing, without anyone maintaining a second list. The people panel on this page is the most recent additions, newest first.
Food is not decoration on a screen archive. Bubble tea was invented in Taiwan in the 1980s and is now sold on most high streets on earth, and the beef noodle soup that gets called the national dish was put together by people who had only just arrived on the island. The guides here are written to the same standard as the records: sourced, and silent wherever nobody can source it.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I watch Taiwanese dramas legally?
Title pages list the official platforms we know of and, where TMDB has JustWatch data, which services carry the show in your country. This site does not stream anything and does not link to unlicensed copies.
Where do the scores come from?
Readers. A score appears on a title only once people have voted on it, and the number of votes is printed beside it, so a 9 from four people never reads as a 9 from four hundred.
Where do the posters and the data come from?
Posters and portraits are shown through the TMDB API and belong to the studios, broadcasters, distributors and agencies behind each work or person. Facts on the page come from the sources named in each record. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
What if something here is wrong or missing?
Use the "Request a correction" link on the page and an editor reviews it. A field nobody can source is left empty rather than guessed at.