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Hit crime thriller “The Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon” received 13 nominations for the upcoming Taipei Film Festival’s Taipei Film Awards. These include nominations for best feature, best director, best screenplay, best actor, best supporting actress, and best supporting actor. It was followed by “Old Fox” with ten nominations and “Big,” with eight.
The film tells the story of a gangster who discovers that he is only the country’s third most wanted criminal and, before he dies, sets out to eliminate those ranking above him.
The best film contenders are “Salli,” “Trouble Girl,” “Big,” “Old Fox” and “The Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon.”
The best actor nominees include Frederick Lee for “Fish Memories,” Bai Run-yin for “Old Fox,” Vic Chou for “Be With Me,” Ethan Juan for “The Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon” and King Jieh-wen for “A Journey in Spring.” The best actress...
Hit crime thriller “The Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon” received 13 nominations for the upcoming Taipei Film Festival’s Taipei Film Awards. These include nominations for best feature, best director, best screenplay, best actor, best supporting actress, and best supporting actor. It was followed by “Old Fox” with ten nominations and “Big,” with eight.
The film tells the story of a gangster who discovers that he is only the country’s third most wanted criminal and, before he dies, sets out to eliminate those ranking above him.
The best film contenders are “Salli,” “Trouble Girl,” “Big,” “Old Fox” and “The Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon.”
The best actor nominees include Frederick Lee for “Fish Memories,” Bai Run-yin for “Old Fox,” Vic Chou for “Be With Me,” Ethan Juan for “The Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon” and King Jieh-wen for “A Journey in Spring.” The best actress...
- 5/17/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The concept of the art-house erotic film is quite new, in Asian cinema at least, as in the moment there are very few entries in the category, if one could even call it that. Titles like “It Feels so Good” by Haruhiko Arai and “White River” by Ma Xue are the first that come to mind, with “In the Morning of La Petite Mort” also moving towards the same, quite unusual direction.
“In the Morning of La Petite Mort” will premiere on VOD & Digital on January 19, 2024, courtesy of Film Movement
Ching is a beautiful young prostitute who lives in a stylish apartment where she “services” mostly elderly men, essentially just for the money since she seems not to enjoy herself at all. Matsui is a homeless food delivery driver, who spends his days from destination to destination to deliver goods and his nights to find a place to stay. Eventually,...
“In the Morning of La Petite Mort” will premiere on VOD & Digital on January 19, 2024, courtesy of Film Movement
Ching is a beautiful young prostitute who lives in a stylish apartment where she “services” mostly elderly men, essentially just for the money since she seems not to enjoy herself at all. Matsui is a homeless food delivery driver, who spends his days from destination to destination to deliver goods and his nights to find a place to stay. Eventually,...
- 1/19/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The “road movie of the sea” will be a Taiwan-Indonesia-Czech Republic co-production.
Veteran Taiwanese actor King Jieh-Wen, Taiwanese rapper-turned-actor Hsueh Shih-Ling and Indonesian singer-actor Angga Yunanda will head the cast of Lim Lung-Yin’s Malice, it was announced at the Acfm in Busan today (October 9).
The film is a Taiwan-Indonesia-Czech Republic co-production. Principal photography is scheduled for April 2024 in Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The story centres on a sea captain, his younger son and a nameless boy who set sail to look for the giant swordfish that killed the captain’s elder son four years ago. While on stage at...
Veteran Taiwanese actor King Jieh-Wen, Taiwanese rapper-turned-actor Hsueh Shih-Ling and Indonesian singer-actor Angga Yunanda will head the cast of Lim Lung-Yin’s Malice, it was announced at the Acfm in Busan today (October 9).
The film is a Taiwan-Indonesia-Czech Republic co-production. Principal photography is scheduled for April 2024 in Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The story centres on a sea captain, his younger son and a nameless boy who set sail to look for the giant swordfish that killed the captain’s elder son four years ago. While on stage at...
- 10/9/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Taiwanese actors King Jieh-wen and Hsueh Shih-ling and Indonesia’s Angga Yunanda are set to star in “Malice,” a multinational Asian thriller that will shoot next year.
The film’s producers, actors and government backers presented the fully-assembled package to press and industry on Monday at the Busan International Film Festival.
The film, pitched as “a road movie at sea,” is a dark tale of three men who put out to sea in search of a particular, large swordfish that had been rumored to have died out.
The three – a deep sea fishing veteran, his son and a mysterious youngster – each have different and clashing motivations for embark on what appears to be a dangerous, possibly hopeless, mission. While the father is a proud mariner, the son has no interest in the sea and would prefer to sell the boat. The youngster is reputed to be an excellent harpoon fisherman,...
The film’s producers, actors and government backers presented the fully-assembled package to press and industry on Monday at the Busan International Film Festival.
The film, pitched as “a road movie at sea,” is a dark tale of three men who put out to sea in search of a particular, large swordfish that had been rumored to have died out.
The three – a deep sea fishing veteran, his son and a mysterious youngster – each have different and clashing motivations for embark on what appears to be a dangerous, possibly hopeless, mission. While the father is a proud mariner, the son has no interest in the sea and would prefer to sell the boat. The youngster is reputed to be an excellent harpoon fisherman,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Taiwanese actors Jieh-Wen King and Hsueh Shih-Ling and Indonesian actor Angga Yunanda have been cast in Lim Lungyin’s action adventure Malice, an amitious co-production between Taiwan, Czech Republic and Indonesia.
Hsueh has credits including Workers, Twisted Strings and last night he won Best Supporting Actor at Busan’s Asian Contents Awards for Disney+ series Taiwan Crime Stories. King is a veteran actor in Taiwan whose credits include Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Goodbye South, Goodbye, Lim’s Ohong Village and The Great Buddha+.
Yunanda is an Indonesian actor, model and singer who made his acting debut and rose to fame with Malu-Malu Kucing and Mermaid In Love. His recent credits include Stealing Raden Saleh (2022) and 12 Cerita Glen Anggara (2022).
The casting news was announced today at an event at the on-going Busan International Film Festival. Production companies on the film include Taiwan’s Tydal Productions and Aview Images, Czech Republic’s...
Hsueh has credits including Workers, Twisted Strings and last night he won Best Supporting Actor at Busan’s Asian Contents Awards for Disney+ series Taiwan Crime Stories. King is a veteran actor in Taiwan whose credits include Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Goodbye South, Goodbye, Lim’s Ohong Village and The Great Buddha+.
Yunanda is an Indonesian actor, model and singer who made his acting debut and rose to fame with Malu-Malu Kucing and Mermaid In Love. His recent credits include Stealing Raden Saleh (2022) and 12 Cerita Glen Anggara (2022).
The casting news was announced today at an event at the on-going Busan International Film Festival. Production companies on the film include Taiwan’s Tydal Productions and Aview Images, Czech Republic’s...
- 10/9/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
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