KAO Ta-Hao, a fugitive going into hiding, meets teenage runaway Hsiao-Shan at a train station. To cover for each other, they disguise themselves as a father and daughter and head up to Mt. Ali. Scholar HO Chih-Ping and wife Chun-Li, after working in Mt. Ali Weather Station for years, are bored by the monotony of their life. The arrival of Ta-Hao and Hsiao-Shan sets something off in Chun-Li. Hsiao-Shan treats Chun-Li like a mother, and Chun-Li grows fond of Ta-Hao. After Ta-Hao meets an innocent girl, Ah-Hung, he begins to re-evaluate his life. A storm inside each of them brews on the mountain.

Typhoon (1962) is adapted from director PAN Lei's novella. He sees the weather station cabin as a confined space where people are both close and alienated; everyone has something on their mind as desires pump through their veins. The extraordinary mise en scène successfully brings a literariness into moving images. With its aesthetic achievement highly praised by Run Run SHAW, the modernistic Typhoon became a turning point for PAN that opened up opportunities for him within the SHAW Brothers Studio.