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When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep (2012) – Taiwan

January 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Year: 2012
Country: Taiwan
Directed by: Hou Chi-Jan
Duration: 1 hr, 25 min
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English, Chinese (embedded)

Cast:
Ko Chen-Tung
Jian Man-Shu
Guo Shu-Yao
Nikki Hsieh
Bryan Chang Shu-Hao

Plot:
This is a cute romantic love story which takes place in a neighbourhood where there are many “cram schools”. A young man works at a copy shop and is stuck in the daily boring routine of making copies for test papers. On one of these monotonous days, he finds a drawing of a sheep on the back of a piece of test paper, which leads him to an unexpected journey.

Filed Under: Drama, Taiwanese Movies

Silent Code (2012) – Taiwan

January 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Movie: Silent Code
Also Known As: BBS?????, BBS Xiang Min de Zheng Yi
Year: 2012
Country: Taiwan
Film Genre: Drama, Thriller, Animation
Runtime: 105 minutes
Release Date: 17 August 2012
Language: Mandarin
Director: Lin Shiyong
Writer: Lin Shiyong

Cast:
Wilson Chen
Ivy Chen
Hsiu Chieh-Kai
Liao Yiqiao
Ken Lin
Hu Xiaofang
Cai Huangru
Puff Guo

Plot:
Reporter Lan (“Blue”) Puff Kuo XueFu) feels a special sense of calling for her work. She seeks the truth; to find and report the truth of the matter is the standard she’s set for herself. She thought that entering the news and reporting world would be the perfect space for her, but her boss has her looking for news on the Internet instead. By accident, Blue stumbles across a popular BBS forum with over 100,000 members. She watches as the forum’s members rise up together to attack the owner of the Dream Board, ? Xiang Ivy Chen YiHan). She originally created the Dream Board website as a space for netizens to share their own dreams and ideas. However, because of a private video that was leaked to the public,Xiang became the subject of a heated debate. Netizens attacked Xiang viciously on the Internet, and she even received countless harassing phone calls. In the midst of these attacks, only one person stood up for her, a computer engineer named Huang GuanJun Hsiu ChiehKai/Xiu JieKai); however, the relentless attacks were still too much for Xiang to bear.

Filed Under: Drama, Taiwanese Movies, Thriller

Heartbeat Love (2012) – Taiwan

January 10, 2013 by 1 Comment

Title: Heartbeat Love
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Directed: Leste Chen
Country: Taiwan
Filmed: Australia (Sydney, Melbourne and Tasmania)
Runtime: It started 12 April 2012, and aired every Thursday midnight Taiwan time (i.e. early Thursday morning).
strongLanguage: Mandarin

Synopsis: 
Heartbeat Love is a miniseries that chronicles the love story between two travelers named Lee Wei Chen and Yang Xiao Yu (played by Show Luo and Rainie Yang respectively) who, due to a gender misunderstanding on Xiao Yu’s part, share a hotel room in Australia. Xiao Yu initially mistakes Lee as being gay, and therefore agrees to share a room and sleep on the same bed as him. (This misunderstanding happened because Lee accidentally exchanged his bag with a gay named GayGay.) The night when they share the room Lee manages to get Gaygay’s phone number and arranges to meet up the next day and switch back the suitcases.

Filed Under: Drama, Taiwanese Movies

The Ghost Tales (2012) – Taiwan

December 4, 2012 by 7 Comments

Year: 2012
Country: Taiwan
Film Genre: horror, Thriller, Drama
Runtime: 102 minutes
Release Date: September 7, 2012
IMDB: None
Language: Mandarin, Minan
Director: Tso Shih-Chiang
Writer: Tso Shih-Chiang
Cast:
Wong Hiu
Kirsten Jen Jung-Hsuan
Li Yi-Jie
Wu Peng-Fong
Tsai Chen-Nan
James Wen Sheng-Hao

Plot:
After being discharged from the army, Chuan brings a lost goat home as no one claims it. On his way to the station, the goat starts talking and tells him an ancient Chinese ghost story… Yet, Chuan finds himself on a train. He tells the young girl beside him about this bizarre dream. The girl seems uninterested in his accosting. But when she sees that Chuan has a goat with him on the platform, she laughs. Because of this incident, they become a couple. One day, Chuan’s younger sister, Qi, is playing around with little stones near unidentified urns. Qi starts hearing strange sounds, asking her to give the stones back. However, the siblings don’t take this seriously. On a routine workday, Chuan accidentally discovers an invaluable bonsai being treated like trash at a millionaire’s mansion. To possess the bonsai, he undergoes several challenges. Yet, trimming is needed before the bonsai can be sold at a high price. He is hence entangled deeply in the intricate mysteries and eventually causes him a deadly setback. Meanwhile, Qi is scared by the calls for the stones so she puts some other stones near the urns. At night, the ghost calls out in anger. Qi is terrified and clears out all items from the house to avoid the sounds. In the nearly empty apartment, when the siblings are making tea, Chuan teases, “if this ghost can turn the sound of boiling water into “Give me back my stone”, I will fight the ghost myself for you”. After a brief pause, it’s Qi who suddenly starts to mumbles “Give me back my stone …” Chuan, understanding what is going on, goes finding a baseball bat and walks toward Qi. Yet, the most unexpected twist is about to be revealed by the goat which Chuan has brought back home, because it starts talking again.

Filed Under: Drama, Horror, Taiwanese Movies, Thriller

Girlfriend Boyfriend (2012) – Taiwan

November 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Title: Gf*Bf / Girlfriend Boyfriend
Chinese: ???????
Director: Ya-che Yang
Writer: Ya-che Yang
Producer: Weijan Liu
Cinematographer: Jake Pollock
World Premiere: June 29, 2012 (Taipei Film Festival)
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Runtime: 105 min.
Language: Mandarin / Min Nan
Country: Taiwan

Synopsis: 
Mabel, Liam and Aaron were born in the same small town, deep in the far south of Taiwan. In this final, hotbed year, new feelings arise that will alter the childhood bonds between them forever: Aaron loves Mabel, but Mabel only has eyes for Liam, who is really in love with Aaron. While Liam remains impervious to all Mabel’s displays of affection, Aaron steps up his pursuit until, eventually, Mabel gives in to his attentions. Move on to the 1980s where the Taiwanese people are locked in a social revolution to have the Martial Law lifted. Mabel, Liam, and Aaron throw themselves into taking part. Later, as students in Taipei, they fight even harder for their ideals such as joining the Wild Lily Movement. In the course of this, long held secrets are revealed. Coming almost full-circle, the old friends who are there for one another through times of emotional hardship and extreme tragedy come to realize the true value of their lifelong friendship.

Filed Under: Comedy, Romance, Taiwanese Movies

When Yesterday Comes (2012) – Taiwan

August 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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AKA : When Yesterday Comes
Year : 2012
Country: Taiwan
Language : Mandarin
Director : Chen Sin-Ging, Shen Ko-Shang, Chiang Hsiu-Chiung, He Wei-Ting
Film Genre : Drama
Cast : Chang Chen, Sonia Sui Tang, Tam Ngaai-Jan, Gu Bao-Ming, Christine Ke Huan-Ju, Ding Keung, Ma Chi-Chun, Li Lieh, Amber Kuo Cai-Jie, Kuo Shang-Jie

Plot/Synopsis :  Following the success of The Long Goodbye, the Taiwan Catholic Foundation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia has embarked on a second documentary film dealing with the plight of elderly people suffering from conditions like Alzheimer’s and other degenerative disorders resulting in memory loss. When Yesterday Comes takes the route of a compendium of four shorts by different directors.

Filed Under: Drama, Taiwanese Movies