Mengju Liu

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Film has helped Rina B. Tsou establish a sense of identity. Born to a Taiwanese father and a Filipina mother, she lived with her grandmother in Manila up until the age of nine, as her father’s work took her parents to various destinations around the world. But with crime rampant in the Philippine capital, and the political situation unstable, in 1997 the family reunited in Taiwan, where Tsou’s parents had decided to settle.

Pass by the Chuan-Mei Theater in Tainan, southern Taiwan, and you can’t miss the work of Yan Zhen-fa. Four massive, hand-painted posters greet film-lovers here each day, as they have, in various forms, since the theatre opened back in 1950. Generations of cinema-lovers have been inspired by the artwork and by what’s on show here, among them the Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), who is said to have first fallen in love with film while hankered down inside.