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This anthology series set during the pandemic follows 10 unique love stories of passion and heartache.
Two best friends, who live under the same roof, share their daily little things about their relationships with each other. As long as you had fallen in love, you must have known these ten love signals.
Shan, an art assistant, juggles responsibilities on the film set and at the hospital, where she cares for her father, Kueng, who has cancer. During her time at the hospital, Shan is tasked by the crew to collect a big bowl from the prop-studio. At her father's request, they discreetly leave the hospital together, embarking on an unexpected journey from the studio to Macau, and subsequently to Okinawa, allowing Kueng to address his unfulfilled wishes. Following his peaceful passing, Shan inherits not only memories but also a lasting sense of courage, optimism, and imaginative spirit that sustains her throughout life.
A heartfelt piece that tells the stories of Taipei streets, people and communities. From ten directors across the globe, creating ten unique stories of Taipei, through various backgrounds, delivering the same heartfelt message.
Chef Aaron's claypot rice is excellent, but unpopular among customers. Feeling very depressed, he drowned his sorrows in alcohol every day, which eventually led to the loss of his sense of taste. Desolated, he continued to cook without putting his heart in it. Ironically, the “heartless” food cooked by Aaron won high acclaim from customers and the comments in the Internet were overwhelmingly positive. People raved about his dishes, and the restaurant gradually became famous, turning into a “check-in” hot spot in the Central and Western District. Chef Aaron’s career took off with flying colours and he became a first-class celebrity chef in the city. He was invited to attend the legendary food program “Taste Kitchen” and suddenly recovered his taste. He then realised that his cooking tasted awful…..
Gay partners Chan Yui and Ka Wing are happily in love, until Chan Yui enters a marriage of convenience with his lesbian friend Fung Ming to appease his parents. Under great pressure, Ka Wing is forced to accept this sham marriage but can things ever go back to normal?
A group of documentary filmmakers began to shoot the civil social movement in Hong Kong, which became part of the city's common landscape. Spanning over two years, the filmmakers attempt to reveal the visible and invisible control behind. They trace a mysterious organization which is suspected to secretly control the weather which dampens the mood and suppresses the intention of the public to participate in social movements. On the surface, the question on inclement weather could be answered by climate changes around the world. The underlying sordid discussion, however, is really about intervention, pervasive suppression and control instead of any conspiracy theory.
Believing that writing Cantopop is her God-given talent, Law Wing-sze decides to make it her lifelong career. But as hard as Sze tries to polish her lyric-writing skills and expand her social circle, nothing seems to go her way. What if there’s a will, but there’s no way?
Making a living from selling cheap wedding supplies doesn't free Fong from pressure to marry. She's been pushed beyond limits by unaffordable housing, archaic customs, and intrusive in-laws since engagement. More worrying is the comeback of a mainlander she's supposed to divorce out of a sham marriage.
After ten years, Jae and Him reconnect at a wedding, rekindling old feelings during a long drive home. But is the distance between them enough to heal their past?
Love intertwines at the wrong time. Sei and Ling, former masseuses in Macau, in retrospect, had the best time together. Decades after, Sei learns that her late best friend has kept a secret she never knew...
The swimming team is deflated after its captain, Tin Heng, passed away tragically. However, a reserve of the team, Gei Yun, works his way up in hope to represent his captain in competitions and to boost the team's morale. His mind may be focused on Tin Heng whom he idolises, but he cast his watchful and silent infatuated glances on Tsz Suen, Tin Heng's girlfriend and member of the girls' swimming team, who remains aloof and even apparently nonchalant about her boyfriend's death. Gei Yun originally thinks Tsz Suen is dismissing her emotions to mask her sadness. However, he finds out that she is harbouring a secret.
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Obsessed with ballroom dancing, Summer tries to achieve her best with her coach Tony. They build a complex, passionate but finally transient relationship throughout the pas de deux dancing steps.
Professor J announces a casting for his new work. Fiona, a student from Hong Kong, is unexpectedly chosen as the female lead. During a staged family dinner, an abrupt performance, an uncooperative co-actor, and unaware spectators blur fiction and reality, leading her to uncover the script’s hidden subtext.
Lost in grief, news anchor Lo Hsin-lan unexpectedly reconnects with a high school friend, unearthing memories of a love that was once taboo.
12-year-old Anthony’s secondary school place allocation result is a grave disappointment. Determined to overturn this less-than-perfect destiny, his mother takes him “door-knocking” at her top choice of secondary school. Unfortunately, Anthony forgets to bring a crucial document and fails to complete the entrance exam paper. During a bathroom break, he obtains the answers to the problem by chance. Driven by desperation, he seeks an opportunity to retrieve and complete his exam paper.
This anthology film features a triplet of horror stories starring up-and-coming actors and popular local Youtubers. When a film crew is haunted by paranormal activities, the director decides to cast her to play a ghost; When a taxi driver takes his girlfriend to a party room to get it on, a horny ghost adds spice to the proceedings; When a wandering ghost refuses to leave a soon-to-be-gentrified mall, the tenants concoct a plan to send her off.
Shenyang, in deep winter snow. Two promising 12-year-old Beijing opera students, Dong (‘winter’ in Chinese) and Nuannuan (literally meaning ‘warmth’) are practising their stage moves diligently and fervently in order to secure their place in an upcoming performance in the capital. Nuannuan has a crush on Dong but Dong is lost in a daze – of a muted longing for his dead mother and a nameless affection for the girl’s young aunt – which unfolds in the juxtaposing scenes of a lone balloon drifting away and a colourful kite soaring into the sky. The train is soon to leave for Beijing, a fond farewell has been bided. Dong has to make his journey, with or without Nuannuan.
