Acting
In a community of farmers living on the Malaysia-Thailand border, Hong Im recently lost her husband under mysterious circumstances. Hong Im uses black magic to address villagers’ everyday issues until she encounters a ghost that reveals a secret about her husband’s death.
A ten-part hour-long series that follows the aftermath of a mass-shooting where all parties involved - the killer, the victims, the victims’ families, the media and the defense teams, whose fates are all intertwined.
Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee Kang-sheng (“Days,” “Goodbye, Dragon Inn”) are attached to “Twisted Strings”, a TV anthology series backed by HBO Asia and streamer Catchplay.The seven-part series is written and directed by Golden Horse-nominated director, Huang Xi (“Missing Johnny”). Hou is attached as the series executive producer. Lee, who has appeared exclusively in films over the past 30 years, notably those of famed Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang, stars.
The series revolves around the journey of music producer Wang Po Han and his assistant An Yi Qi to find the copyright owner of the mysterious song for their artist, A-Lin. They also came across a diary belonging to K who is the producer of the mysterious song and traveled into the life story of K through the diary. The diary tells the story of K and Cream, two orphans who journey through life and share experiences in sadness and joy together. However, K is diagnosed with fatal leukemia cancer. Knowing that Cream's biggest fear is to be left alone, K keeps the fact that he has terminal cancer a secret.
Adapted from the popular short serial series "Canned Fears," it is composed of four short films of different types: "Spiritual, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller".
Based on the speculative short stories of MirrorFiction, this sci-fi thriller anthology plunges headlong into our deepest desires -- and darkest fears.
RD is a middle-aged man who has lived with his fiancée, Xin-jie, for seven happy years. But when Xin-jie suffers a sudden occupational injury, their lives are plunged into an entirely new state, one seemingly more dead than alive. Unexpectedly disconnected from the familiar things in life, RD is forced to face newfound contradictions.
A boy lives with his Grandma and Mr. Lin, the tenant who looks after him and Grandma. But when Grandma passes away, the boy's uncle returns to Taiwan and discovers that ownership of the apartment was transferred to other people.
Yijuan and her mentally ill sister Kaiqi struggle to be happy in the face of misfortune, criminal intrigue, marital strife, an exorcism and a ghost.
Xiaogin transferred to the third school during his fifth year at high school. During the winter vacation, his grandparents tricked him into returning to the hotel which was founded by his parents. Xiaogin’s classmates Little Princess and Lu Qun tagged along uninvited to escape being bullied at school. While the three boys were temporarily staying at Xiaogin’s family hotel, they quickly found out that the hotel was in terrible shape and was also haunted. Xiaogin and his friends have developed an extremely close friendship while they are trying to step closer to the truth. Will they find out the secret that hides underneath the steaming hot springs?
As final exam approach, a shocking “suicide notice” appeared in Enshan high school. It accuses the exam system of crushing students and threatens suicide on the exam day. The school is afraid of triggering more anxiety among students, and worried about its reputation. At the same time, they urgently try to identify the person. As the truth slowly unravels, it turned out to be a scandal in the education system.
Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him.
Ten seasoned professional chefs pair up with celebrity assistants in a high‑stakes cooking competition, where teams vie for a major cash prize.
Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.
Set in 2007, the movie tells of a complicated three-way relationship between a young singer and two people who believe in him.
A 10-year-old boy encounters two teenage bullies with his pet rabbit on his way home from school. He needs to think of an escape plan while the two teens confront him with sinister games and an impossible choice.
The story centers on CHEN Wei and her daughter, seeking refuge from CHEN Wei’s violent husband in the Butterfly Mansion, known for its eerie reputation as a suicide hotspot. Strange events unfold, and warnings from Uncle LIANG, the building’s janitor, and Uncle Shan, the temple caretaker who lives on the top floor, about the unsafe floor are ignored due to financial constraints. Neighbors like Ah Di, who sees spirits, and the forbidden Room No. 613, intensify CHEN’s unease. Substitute manager Xiao Liang cares for CHEN, with her daughter showing joy in his visits. As the Chinese ghost month progresses, supernatural events escalate, revealing a crisis beyond CHEN Wei’s initial struggles.
Energetic, colourful reworking of Shakespeare’s love story played entirely by women, set in the bustling metropolis of Taipei.
Deng Deng (meaning “wait a little”) is born a street kitten. Knowing his siblings be adopted one by one but he was left alone, he decided to find himself a “servant” who would serve him for the rest of his life. Dengdeng then found Lu Chun Hsiang, who has a kind heart. Since then Lu and Deng Deng embarked on a journey with unimaginable human-animal communication skills. Together they solved many pets’ bizarre needs and wild behaviors such as their predatory instinct, how the pets names actually affect their own personalities and the enviness from their owners’ partners. They also jointly looked into the dogs who let down by humans in the shelter, and the pain and sorrow the pets feel when they are parted from their long-loved owners.
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