The new wave of Taiwanese films included Hou Hsiao-hsien's A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Chen Kun-hou's Graw Up, and Edward Yang's The Terrorists, which grabbed hold of the pulse of current life in Taiwan. Whether showing the complicated and twisted love relations between urban men and women or experiences of growing up with the soil, they all gave viewers new movie-going experiences.
在新電影浪潮下所拍攝的幾部片子如侯孝賢的《童年往事》、陳坤厚的《小畢的故事》、楊德昌的《恐怖份子》，抓住台灣現實生活的脈動，無論是在這片土地上的成長經驗，或都市男女複雜、扭曲的情感，都讓觀眾獲得前所未有的電影經驗。