{"title": "Dangerous Youth", "start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Dangerous Youth is a Taiwanese-language film directed by Hsin Chi, screened at The Garden Cinema as part of the Made in Taiwan season. Presented in a digital restoration marking the 70th anniversary of Taiwanese-language cinema, it is one of Taiyupian's boldest surviving works. The film centers on a gritty love triangle, following Khue-guan, a penniless delivery boy, who meets waitress Tsing-bi after his girlfriend leaves him for a wealthy suitor. She later discovers her new job, arranged through a cabaret owner, is as an escort to a lonely elderly millionaire.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dangerous-youth-39259/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/dangerous-youth/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34ef5186cfa6da6bd79b3cec71e213a4313e8dae768b73f6814ee03700e90f42-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "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": "2026-11-07T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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": "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": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "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"}, {"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, "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": "Hill of No Return", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Hill of No Return 18 is a screening of Wang Toon's 1992 Taiwanese film at an independent cinema. The final chapter of Wang Toon's 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy', written by Wu Nien-jen, follows two brothers who leave home in 1927 to work at a Japanese-controlled gold mine, where one marries Ah-Jou (Kuei-Mei Yang) and the other falls for prostitute Fumiko (Mayko Chen). As the Japanese army keeps searching workers for stolen gold, tensions rise. The screening on 13 November will be introduced by Tom Cunliffe (UCL) and shows a new restoration; the film won Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the Golden Horse Awards.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hill-of-no-return-39250/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/hill-of-no-return/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e3b6ac90b10538ca2cdadc7873c0688be69b2b1069fa89fc9343c4868958b0e-600.webp"}, {"title": "What Time Is It There?", "start": "2026-11-15T15:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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": "En Route To", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "society/korea"], "description": "En Route To is a screening of a film by Yoo Jaein, made in Korea in 2025 and running 105 minutes, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts as part of the London Korean Film Festival 2026. It follows Yun-ji, a student whose secret is revealed at the start: after her homeroom teacher, with whom she had been having an affair, disappears when she tells him of her pregnancy, she steals savings from her dorm roommate Kyung-sun to buy illegal abortion pills. Kyung-sun sets out to find Yun-ji and recover her money, but her chase ends with her uncovering Yun-ji's secret.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/en-route-to-74136/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/en-route-to", "image": "https://noky.io/images/162b1c3363c38dc393be0be6d6ef3adcb5b7689b24ee000c2ef9c5010104fa3d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Flight of the Red Balloon", "start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "\"Flight of the Red Balloon\" is a screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2007 film from Taiwan and France, his first feature shot outside Asia. Commissioned by Paris's Musée d'Orsay and inspired by Albert Lamorisse's 1956 short \"The Red Balloon\", it stars Juliette Binoche as Suzanne, a busy puppeteer raising her son Simon in Paris. When Song, a Taiwanese film student, becomes Simon's babysitter, she joins his daily routines while a mysterious red balloon drifts above the city, quietly shadowing their lives. The film is shown in French dialogues with English subtitles and marks cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing's first feature shot in France.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/flight-of-the-red-balloon-39256/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/flight-of-the-red-balloon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/770e2f08c280a2714fc46e5e6685381f1feaf86f119d56d71ee1f9a4be689ca5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Resurrection", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction/dystopian"], "description": "Chester Film Society presents a screening of the feature film Resurrection, made up with Picturehouse as part of a diverse programme of world cinema. In a future where humanity has traded its ability to dream for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day's Journey Into Night), it conjures vast, ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires. The cast also includes Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huang Jue and Chen Yongzhong.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/resurrection-37898/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018203/cfs-resurrection", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f0c814ca4adf71d9c1bbb8a00795a309d4e1b0530e9ddfd45c2bbb9d95baee6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Raise the Red Lantern", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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": "The World of Love", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/coming-of-age-drama"], "description": "The World of Love is a film about Joo-in, a seventeen-year-old high school girl who keeps her thoughts and feelings to herself. She receives mysterious notes after refusing to participate in a school-wide petition signed by all of her fellow students. The title is a word play, as 'Joo-in' sounds like 'owner' in Korean, suggesting both a personal agency and the reclaiming of her story. Director Yoon Ga-eun, known for The World of Us and The House of Us, turns her attention to adolescence with a cast of young actors, many with little or no previous film experience, in a story about courage, resilience and finding the strength to shape one's own life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-world-of-love-80691/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lkff-26-the-world-of-love", "image": "https://noky.io/images/39db9b93b61c7953b016828fed0404665789e006b4323fd6371170124309b3ef-1200.webp"}, {"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": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "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": "Love Exposure", "start": "2026-11-16T19:05:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "A screening of the Japanese comedy Love Exposure, directed by Sion Sono and starring Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima and Sakura Andô. It tells of a teenage boy, Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he meets while working as an \"up-skirt\" photographer in a porn industry offshoot. His courtship is complicated by cross-dressing that convinces Yoko she is lesbian, kung-fu and crime, and the guilt left by his Catholic upbringing. It runs 237 minutes and carries an 18 certificate for very strong bloody violence and sex references.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/love-exposure-64081/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617033/love-exposure", "image": "https://noky.io/images/77c4bf0ea11cb8e7f67231237755d440d25bdc937688db68550eb370d1dcf542-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Chungking Express", "start": "2026-11-07T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "Chungking Express is a 1994 romance-drama directed by Wong Kar Wai, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong, Valerie Chow and Tony Leung. Cop 223 buys a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1, symbolizing the day he'll get over his lost love, while eyeing a mysterious woman in a blond wig who is secretly a drug dealer. Cop 663 is distraught over a breakup, but when his ex drops a spare set of his keys at a local cafe, a waitress lets herself into his apartment and spruces up his life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/chungking-express-64037/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/19529908/chungking-express", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7accc7b9b7daf98280a62bb6965143ae3b730bb91dfeebfdcacdb093bda75051-1200.webp"}]}