As a part of <Flying Fighters of Taiwan> Taiwan Films at HOME Manchester, it presented the wuxia epic A Touch of Zen (1971). Widely regarded as the greatest martial arts epic of all time, A Touch of Zen won awards worldwide, smashed box-office records and had an incalculable influence on the genre as a whole.

Presented under the umbrella title ‘A Glimpse of Taiwan’, this year’s roster of carefully-chosen productions runs a gamut from full-on contemporary dance (See You) and thoughtfully stylised dance-theatre (The Whisper of the Waves) to cross-art form experimentation (TOMATO) and circus-style, multi-media spectacle (Light of Life).