{"title": "Banana Paradise", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Banana Paradise is a screening of Wang Toon's 1989 Taiwanese film, part of The Garden Cinema's Made in Taiwan season. It follows a naive young man who follows the Kuomintang forces from China to Taiwan in 1949, adopting false names as he adjusts to life amid turbulent socio-economic changes. The film, the second chapter in Wang's 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy', addresses the cruelties of martial law as a tragicomic melodrama, alongside rural-urban migration and the demands of modernisation. The screening on 8 November will be introduced by Tom Cunliffe (UCL) and shows a new restoration, with Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Chang Shih and Wen Ying in the cast.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/banana-paradise-39242/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/banana-paradise/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/02c5ee45227451c88fddecaad75485afdf9a927d15832ff668d82692aa9fe4dd-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-27T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Strawman", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Strawman is a 1987 Taiwanese film screening at The Garden Cinema. Directed by Wang Toon, it opens his 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy' and is shot by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, winning six Golden Horse Awards including Best Feature Film. Set in 1940s Taiwan, it follows two impoverished tenant farmers who, finding an unexploded American bomb in their field, carry it to the Japanese authorities hoping for a reward, as their plan spirals into absurdity. The film stars Cho Sheng Li, Chang Po-Chou and Yang Kuei-Mei.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/strawman-39239/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/strawman/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9388f1a7dd5ad17413873b4ed59e125974ccd9fb1b3f6b28a8690bb1a5e6fdda-600.webp"}, {"title": "Taipei Story", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Taipei Story is Edward Yang's 1985 film about Lung, who runs a traditional textile business, and Chin, an assistant at a construction company, a couple whose dreams of marriage and emigration in a developing Taipei begin to unravel as they desperately try to maintain their relationship. The film depicts the alienation of urban life and was made in collaboration with Taiwan New Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, who takes the male lead and serves as screenwriter and producer. It stars Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Chin and Ko I-Chen. Yang's exceptional directorial skills are a testament to the camaraderie among New Cinema filmmakers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/taipei-story-39247/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/taipei-story/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/df78385e0e62858f02e2617d20e19f19468d04a76d57bd296ef2249f21eda796-600.webp"}, {"title": "Millennium Mambo", "start": "2026-10-30T18:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2001 film about an aimless bar hostess in Taipei, drifting from her blowhard boyfriend towards a suave, sensitive gangster. Structured as a flashback to the then-present from the then-future of 2011, it is a trance-like dive into the techno-scored neon nightlife of the city, drenched in club lights with a nagging undercurrent of ennui. Shu Qi stars alongside Jack Kao and Tuan Chun-hao. The film is presented in a new digital restoration as part of the cinema's focus on filmmaker Mark Lee Ping-bing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/millennium-mambo-39218/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/millennium-mambo/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dc4c82166411d2c14cd9a9003b4f167b7cd0ad05908733cd28a284fc772e0f67-1200.webp"}, {"title": "What Time Is It There?", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film screening by Tsai Ming-liang, made in Taiwan and France in 2001, reuniting the director with Lee Kang-sheng alongside Chen Shiang-chyi and Lu Yi-ching. Hsiao-kang, a watch vendor in Taipei, sells a dual-time watch to Shiang-chyi before she leaves for Paris. As she wanders the unfamiliar city alone, Hsiao-kang becomes fixated on Paris, watching Truffaut's The 400 Blows and resetting clocks across Taipei to Paris time. Across the two cities, their solitary lives unfold in parallel, mirroring each other through absence, chance encounters and quiet gestures of connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-time-is-it-there-39230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/what-time-is-it-there/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0feca1acfc99153f95b2b17f6fb36c383d8e194b16e07eeb5f71da6db3fb45db-600.webp"}, {"title": "Made in Taiwan", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Made in Taiwan is a season of screenings dedicated to Taiwanese cinema, running from 24 October to 6 December 2026. It is presented by The Garden Cinema and supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, and is the fourth edition of the cinema's annual Taiwanese film season. At its heart is a focus on cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, who joins in London for seven films from his five-decade career, including his collaborations with Hou Hsiao-hsien. The programme also brings classic and contemporary Taiwanese works by filmmakers such as Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, King Hu, Wang Toon, Huang Ya-li, Chen Kuo-fu and Hsin Chi, alongside Q&As and introductions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/made-in-taiwan-39287/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0514bb360a48417c6b3862d09a30e4add3aab83384fb4f6cc19302d1a6bbec9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Raise the Red Lantern", "start": "2026-11-06T15:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Raise the Red Lantern is a film by Zhang Yimou from 1991, shown in a new digital restoration. It follows Songlian (Gong Li), an educated young woman sold into marriage with the rich tyrant Master Chen, who must navigate the maze of political and sexual challenges within the fortress-like Qiao Family Compound among his four competing wives. Winner of the Silver Lion at Venice in 1991, it is considered perhaps Zhang's most accomplished film and the culmination of his 'Red Trilogy'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raise-the-red-lantern-39238/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/raise-the-red-lantern", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e3974183ed0475c1eb1127e625652682f475e9408410ee23345ae168df356658-1200.webp"}, {"title": "In the Realm of the Senses", "start": "2026-11-02T15:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/psychological-drama"], "description": "A screening of the controversial 1976 Japanese psychological drama 'In the Realm of the Senses'. It is directed by Nagisa Oshima and stars Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima and Taiji Tonoyama. Set in 1936 and based on a true incident, it depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love amid escalating imperialism and governmental control. Still censored in its own country, it is described as less a work of pornography than of politics, a brave, taboo-breaking milestone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-the-realm-of-the-senses-64014/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/25079278/in-the-realm-of-the-senses", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db6031f5b00f3e199a2e979c15c0fbef37cf73960dc89d1e46dda1a72f68566c-1200.webp"}]}