But Taiwan's film industry has been in decline since the 1980s. Genre films have given way to the works of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, et al., directors who rejected the tenets of commercial film. Instead, they proposed a New Taiwan Cinema that returned to Taiwan's historical roots and emphasized humanistic values.
但在 1980 年代後，台灣電影工業逐漸萎縮，取而代之的是以侯孝賢、楊德昌等導演為代表，反對商業電影的羶色腥傾向、主張回歸本土歷史經驗、重視人文價值的台灣「新電影」。