Taiwanese cinema has been producing a series of crime movies lately, and quite diverse for matter, as titles like “Godspeed” and the “Gatao” franchise highlight. Chan Chun-hao attempts his own hand in the category, adapting Feng Shi’s novel, through an approach, though, that lingers somewhere between the pulp and the soap opera.
“You Have to Kill Me” is screening at Asian Pop-up Cinema
Police officer Chou is about to propose to his girlfriend, Chen, when he receives a homicide case report and follows it to the mountains. He even manages to catch the perpetrator, Li, but to his shock, he finds out that the victim was actually Chen. Despite being devastated and overly violent, he manages to exact an interrogation from Li, who insists, however, that the girl actually asked him to kill. Furthermore, it turns out that Li is the son of a very powerful man, Chairman Cheng-Wen Li,...
“You Have to Kill Me” is screening at Asian Pop-up Cinema
Police officer Chou is about to propose to his girlfriend, Chen, when he receives a homicide case report and follows it to the mountains. He even manages to catch the perpetrator, Li, but to his shock, he finds out that the victim was actually Chen. Despite being devastated and overly violent, he manages to exact an interrogation from Li, who insists, however, that the girl actually asked him to kill. Furthermore, it turns out that Li is the son of a very powerful man, Chairman Cheng-Wen Li,...
- 4/5/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Taiwan’s Studio76 is joining hands with Singapore’s MediaCorp launch a new script competition to be launched in 2021. The mission is to boost Chinese-language storytelling in the pan-Asia region.
Unveiled at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest, “Rising Stories” will begin accepting applications from Feb. 1, 2021 to April 15, 2021. Five winners will be selected, and results are expected to be announced in July. The script competition also has backing of Tencent’s WeTV and X Media Asia.
The competition aims to strengthen Taiwan as an incubation hub for Chinese language stories for talent from all over the world, and to create projects with global appeal that can attract investment from international financiers, Studio76 said.
Entries will be judged by a panel of adjudicators including actor Janel Tsai, director Chieh Hsueh-Bin, director Lester Shih (“The Bridge Curse”), scriptwriter-producer Maya Huang and Wang Li-Wen (“The Magnificent Bobita”).
Speaking Thursday at Tccf, judges said they were excited with the competition,...
Unveiled at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest, “Rising Stories” will begin accepting applications from Feb. 1, 2021 to April 15, 2021. Five winners will be selected, and results are expected to be announced in July. The script competition also has backing of Tencent’s WeTV and X Media Asia.
The competition aims to strengthen Taiwan as an incubation hub for Chinese language stories for talent from all over the world, and to create projects with global appeal that can attract investment from international financiers, Studio76 said.
Entries will be judged by a panel of adjudicators including actor Janel Tsai, director Chieh Hsueh-Bin, director Lester Shih (“The Bridge Curse”), scriptwriter-producer Maya Huang and Wang Li-Wen (“The Magnificent Bobita”).
Speaking Thursday at Tccf, judges said they were excited with the competition,...
- 11/19/2020
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
Starry Starry Night Trailer, Poster, Photo. Tom Lin‘s Starry Starry Night (2011) movie trailer, movie poster, movie photo stars Rene Liu, Harlem Yu, Kenneth Tsang, Kenneth Tsang, Hui Ming Lin, and Janel Tsai. Starry Starry Night‘s plot synopsis: “Starry Starry Night is the slightly fantastical tale of Mei, a 13-years old girl trying to deal with growing [...]
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- 5/22/2012
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Director: Rico Chung.
Writer: Lan Yang.
Cast: Jordan Chan, Yang Mi, Hayama Hiro, Janel Tsai, Maggie Lee, Mini Yang, Shaun Tam, Wong Yau Nam, Tsui Tin Yau, Jessica Xu and Anya.
Not to be confused with other similarly titled products, this latest incarnation of Mysterious Island comes from China and involves the paranormal. Game contestants, as reported by the fictional TV show "Search Planet," are taken to a remote piece of rock on the Binlusai Island chain for a final round of "Survivor." But no one in the group knows about the land’s dark past; it was once the home to a leper colony.
But after the transport gets damaged as they approach land, everyone, including the show hostess Stanley (Jessica Xu) and cameraman Ken (Shaun Tam), have to do more than to fend for themselves.
Greed overcomes the eight people, show creators excluded, who think nothing of their plight.
Writer: Lan Yang.
Cast: Jordan Chan, Yang Mi, Hayama Hiro, Janel Tsai, Maggie Lee, Mini Yang, Shaun Tam, Wong Yau Nam, Tsui Tin Yau, Jessica Xu and Anya.
Not to be confused with other similarly titled products, this latest incarnation of Mysterious Island comes from China and involves the paranormal. Game contestants, as reported by the fictional TV show "Search Planet," are taken to a remote piece of rock on the Binlusai Island chain for a final round of "Survivor." But no one in the group knows about the land’s dark past; it was once the home to a leper colony.
But after the transport gets damaged as they approach land, everyone, including the show hostess Stanley (Jessica Xu) and cameraman Ken (Shaun Tam), have to do more than to fend for themselves.
Greed overcomes the eight people, show creators excluded, who think nothing of their plight.
- 1/4/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
“Mysterious Island” from director Chung Kai Cheung (who worked on “A-1 Headline” with Gordon Chan) is probably best described as a supernaturally themed thriller, though this may be pushing things a bit due to some of the film’s more bewildering elements. Headlined by Hong Kong star Jordan Chan and rising Chinese idol Mini Yang, the film has a supporting cast that includes Hayama Hiro (recently in the awesome “Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy”), Shaun Tam, and Wong Yau Nam and Tsui Tin Yau of Shine fame, with impressive eye candy in the form of Janel Tsai, Maggie Lee, Jessica Xu, and Anya. Perhaps due to films of its type being increasingly rare in Chinese cinema, the film was a huge hit at the Mainland box office, managing to stand proudly alongside high profile summer blockbuster releases like “Wu Xia” and other big budget epics. The flimsy plot follows a...
- 9/4/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
I have no idea what in the hell is going on in this clip, but truth be told, that’s exactly why I want to see Kai Cheung Chung’s “Mysterious Island”. If nothing else, at least the marketing campaign stays true to the picture’s title. I’m sure we’ll see a full trailer before long, as the film, which stars Jordan Chan, Mi Yang, Tien You Tsui, Hayama Go, Janel Tsai, and Anya, opens on July 8th, 2011. You can feast your eyes on the strangeness below. To prevent further confusion, here’s a synopsis: A group of young people from different countries head to a deserted island for a survivor competition. The winner who lives through the hardships will be awarded with a big cash prize. However this journey turns out to be much harder than they could stand. First, their maps are gone. Then the competitors are being murdered,...
- 6/3/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
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