Bad Education
Director: Kai Ko
Producers: Ko Yao-zong, Lu Wei-chun, Giddens Ko, Midi Z, Molly Fang
Key cast: Berant Zhu, Kent Tsai, Edison Song
Actor Kai Ko’s directorial debut revolves around three young men who decide to bond with each other as sworn brothers as they graduate from high school by sharing dark secrets. The film’s Berant Zhu won the supporting actor prize at the 2022 Golden Horse Awards.
Sales: Harvest 9 Road Entertainment
COO-coo 043
Director: Chan Ching-Lin
Producers: Lin I-ling, Lin Shih-ken
Key cast: Yu An-Shun, Hu Jhih-Ciang, Yang Li-Yin, Rimong Ihwar
Haunting family drama set against the world of pigeon racing in Taiwan. Winner of 59th Golden Horse Awards’ narrative feature in 2022 and the Golden Horse Film Festival’s Fipresci prize.
Sales: Distribution Workshop
In The Morning Of LA Petite Morte
Director: Wang Yu-lin
Producers: Patrick Mao Huang, Jan Yi-ting
Key cast: Fukuchi Yusuke, Wang Yun-zhi, Ivy Yin,...
Director: Kai Ko
Producers: Ko Yao-zong, Lu Wei-chun, Giddens Ko, Midi Z, Molly Fang
Key cast: Berant Zhu, Kent Tsai, Edison Song
Actor Kai Ko’s directorial debut revolves around three young men who decide to bond with each other as sworn brothers as they graduate from high school by sharing dark secrets. The film’s Berant Zhu won the supporting actor prize at the 2022 Golden Horse Awards.
Sales: Harvest 9 Road Entertainment
COO-coo 043
Director: Chan Ching-Lin
Producers: Lin I-ling, Lin Shih-ken
Key cast: Yu An-Shun, Hu Jhih-Ciang, Yang Li-Yin, Rimong Ihwar
Haunting family drama set against the world of pigeon racing in Taiwan. Winner of 59th Golden Horse Awards’ narrative feature in 2022 and the Golden Horse Film Festival’s Fipresci prize.
Sales: Distribution Workshop
In The Morning Of LA Petite Morte
Director: Wang Yu-lin
Producers: Patrick Mao Huang, Jan Yi-ting
Key cast: Fukuchi Yusuke, Wang Yun-zhi, Ivy Yin,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
Taipei-based international sales company Distribution Workshop will be selling Lunar New Year hit Hidden Blade, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Wong Ching-po’s highly-anticipated new film, The Pig, The Snake And The Pigeon, at the upcoming European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin.
Directed by Cheng Er, Hidden Blade is a spy thriller set in Shanghai during the Second World War, and also stars Wang Yibo (Born To Fly) and Zhou Xun (Our Time Will Come).
The 45m production has so far grossed 116.6M since its release over the Lunar New Year holidays on January 22, according to figures from Artisan Gateway.
The film is the third installment in the “China Victory Trilogy” produced by Beijing-based Bona Film Group, following Chinese Doctors and The Battle At Lake Changjin. Cheng Er is known for crime dramas such as Lethal Hostage (2012) and The Wasted Times (2016).
The Pig, The Snake And The Pigeon is produced by Lee Lieh,...
Directed by Cheng Er, Hidden Blade is a spy thriller set in Shanghai during the Second World War, and also stars Wang Yibo (Born To Fly) and Zhou Xun (Our Time Will Come).
The 45m production has so far grossed 116.6M since its release over the Lunar New Year holidays on January 22, according to figures from Artisan Gateway.
The film is the third installment in the “China Victory Trilogy” produced by Beijing-based Bona Film Group, following Chinese Doctors and The Battle At Lake Changjin. Cheng Er is known for crime dramas such as Lethal Hostage (2012) and The Wasted Times (2016).
The Pig, The Snake And The Pigeon is produced by Lee Lieh,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Seven years after his multi awarded “Exit”, Chienn Hsiang returns with another portrait of middle-aged womanhood starring Chen Shiang-chyi, in a recipe he seems to be close to perfecting.
“Increasing Echo” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Mrs Yan is a middle-class wife, whose age crisis has forced her to move towards new paths, hugging trees in parks while blindfolded, chanting sutras and doing yoga in order to maintain a sense of balance in a life that is difficult to realize where it is going. Her husband, Fu-Sheng, on the other hand, is dealing with his own life crisis by bordering on alcoholism, even carrying a flask at the company he works for as a senior manager. The two of them live together and there seems to be nothing particularly wrong with their life, as their financial situation is good, their son is about to get married and...
“Increasing Echo” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Mrs Yan is a middle-class wife, whose age crisis has forced her to move towards new paths, hugging trees in parks while blindfolded, chanting sutras and doing yoga in order to maintain a sense of balance in a life that is difficult to realize where it is going. Her husband, Fu-Sheng, on the other hand, is dealing with his own life crisis by bordering on alcoholism, even carrying a flask at the company he works for as a senior manager. The two of them live together and there seems to be nothing particularly wrong with their life, as their financial situation is good, their son is about to get married and...
- 11/26/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Huan Ming-Chuan's The Man From The Island West carries theme, story and characterisation in a delicate storm that transports viewers into the setting via sensory and spiritual subtleties. The use of minimalism in the aesthetic and script of Huan’s low-budget gem make the philosophical questions at the heart of the story as elusive and mysterious as the inner worlds of the characters and their existential journeys.
The film opens with an ethereal sequence of a man, Ah-Ming (Wu Hong-ming), limping through tunnels that give an underworldly feel to the mood and tone. We see him exit to the coastline where a car is burning, and it is revealed that he has been rescued from a suicide attempt, witnessed by another man, Ah-Chuan (Chen Yi-wen). The relationship between the two men quickly becomes strained when Hsiu Mei (Shaw Tswe-fen), Ah-Chuan’s former girlfriend, returns from Taipei.
The Man from the Island West.
The film opens with an ethereal sequence of a man, Ah-Ming (Wu Hong-ming), limping through tunnels that give an underworldly feel to the mood and tone. We see him exit to the coastline where a car is burning, and it is revealed that he has been rescued from a suicide attempt, witnessed by another man, Ah-Chuan (Chen Yi-wen). The relationship between the two men quickly becomes strained when Hsiu Mei (Shaw Tswe-fen), Ah-Chuan’s former girlfriend, returns from Taipei.
The Man from the Island West.
- 10/28/2022
- by Stephanie Brown
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Based on a true story inspired by Lin Po-yu’s past, who wrote, directed and edited the movie, “Growing Pains” is a film that could be described as a tribute to fatherhood.
“Growing Pains” is screening at Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh
Fourteen-year-old Yao is growing up just with his father, Huang Reng-shiung, a small diner restaurant, whose gambling addiction has left the two in ruin. Yao, who is a member of the track team of his school, cannot afford to buy new shoes, with his father trying to repair them almost every night, but with no particular success. The bullying has already started in the school, and one day the young man finds himself injured due to his ruined shoes. At the same time, Reng-shiung is being hunted by loan-sharks, who even call at home and curse at his son, but to no avail, as he does not seem able to stop gambling.
“Growing Pains” is screening at Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh
Fourteen-year-old Yao is growing up just with his father, Huang Reng-shiung, a small diner restaurant, whose gambling addiction has left the two in ruin. Yao, who is a member of the track team of his school, cannot afford to buy new shoes, with his father trying to repair them almost every night, but with no particular success. The bullying has already started in the school, and one day the young man finds himself injured due to his ruined shoes. At the same time, Reng-shiung is being hunted by loan-sharks, who even call at home and curse at his son, but to no avail, as he does not seem able to stop gambling.
- 10/17/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
When The Dawn Comes Photo: Courtesy of Edinburgh Taiwan Film Festival The 3rd edition of Edinburgh's Tawian Film Festival kicks off this weekend, with screenings until October 20 at Summerhall and the Everyman.
This year's theme is the (un)Usuals, with six features and a clutch of shorts that aim to shine a light on people, events and relationships that fall outside mainstream experience.
Highlights include When The Dawn Comes, a documentary on gay rights activist Chia Chie Wei, who was the first person in Taiwan to publicly come out as gay and a retrospective of the eclectic career of Chen Yi-Wen, the long-time collaborator of Edward Yang who went on to become a celebrated writer/director in his own right.
Liu Kuan-Ping, chief Curator at the festival, said: “Although streaming at home is a comfortable and convenient way to enjoy cinema, I still prefer sitting in the dark with other people,...
This year's theme is the (un)Usuals, with six features and a clutch of shorts that aim to shine a light on people, events and relationships that fall outside mainstream experience.
Highlights include When The Dawn Comes, a documentary on gay rights activist Chia Chie Wei, who was the first person in Taiwan to publicly come out as gay and a retrospective of the eclectic career of Chen Yi-Wen, the long-time collaborator of Edward Yang who went on to become a celebrated writer/director in his own right.
Liu Kuan-Ping, chief Curator at the festival, said: “Although streaming at home is a comfortable and convenient way to enjoy cinema, I still prefer sitting in the dark with other people,...
- 10/14/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Having won a number of awards in Deauville, Golden Horse and Taipei Film Festival, “The Cabbie” is Chen Yi-wen’s most successful movie to date, and was also Taiwan’s submission to the 74th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, although it was not accepted as a nominee.
“The Cabbie” is screening at Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh
The film is split in two parts essentially, which intermingle on a number of occasions. The main arc revolves around Su Daquan, a taxi driver, and his family, starting with the way his parents, a coroner and a taxi driver met and married, and continuing with his personal history. In adolescence, when his peers were driving scooters, he was driving a car without license, and his performance in school was of no importance, since the only thing that mattered was for him getting his license, something he eventually achieved,...
“The Cabbie” is screening at Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh
The film is split in two parts essentially, which intermingle on a number of occasions. The main arc revolves around Su Daquan, a taxi driver, and his family, starting with the way his parents, a coroner and a taxi driver met and married, and continuing with his personal history. In adolescence, when his peers were driving scooters, he was driving a car without license, and his performance in school was of no importance, since the only thing that mattered was for him getting his license, something he eventually achieved,...
- 10/5/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh is proud to announce the full programme for its third edition, featuring a packed line-up of Taiwanese films that will be screening between 15 and 20 October in both Summerhall and Everyman Edinburgh cinemas. This year’s programme offers a unique glimpse into Taiwan’s rich film heritage: from short films to documentaries as well as classics both old and new, many of which will be having their UK premiere as part of this year’s festival. This year’s 6 features and 5 shorts are united under the theme of the (un)Usuals, seeking to shine a light on the people, events, relationships that usually fall outside of the mainstream experience.
Tickets are now available to book on taiwanfilmfestival.org.uk. All screenings are priced at £8 and £6 concession.
In recent years, there has been a tangible upsurge in attention towards Taiwanese cinema throughout global film communities. This growing but...
Tickets are now available to book on taiwanfilmfestival.org.uk. All screenings are priced at £8 and £6 concession.
In recent years, there has been a tangible upsurge in attention towards Taiwanese cinema throughout global film communities. This growing but...
- 9/28/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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