The 2020 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival will kick off from November 5th with double opening films: Classmates Minus by Golden Horse Awards winner Huang Hsin-yao and the dark romantic comedy A Leg by Chang Yao-sheng, the first-time director who co-wrote A Sun. Both films are produced by acclaimed veteran director Chung Mong-hong, who also served as director of photography for them. Classmates Minus features last year’s Best Supporting Actor winner Liu Kuan-ting, Cheng Jen-shuo, Nadow Lin and Shi Ming-shuai, while A Leg stars Golden Horse Awards winners Gwei Lun-mei and Yo Yang as husband and wife.

Huang Hsin-yao began his film career from documentary; in 2017, his debut feature The Great Buddha+, based on his own short film, won him the Golden Horse Awards for Best New Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Classmates Minus is inspired by his 2005 documentary Bluffing about his high school buddies. The film features Liu Kuan-ting (A Sun), Cheng Jen-shuo  (Thanatos, Drunk), Nadow Lin (Godspeed) and Shih Ming-shuai. It follows a group of former high school friends and their struggles of love, marriage and career, which not only put their friendship to the test by accident but satirically examine the society and human nature.

Last year, Chang Yao-sheng was nominated for Best Original Screenplay for A Sun.  In his debut feature A Leg as a writer-director, he paired Gwei Lun-mei and Yo Yang as a couple who fell for each other over ballroom dancing. The husband dies of a leg amputation and the wife suffers from bureaucracy of the hospital simply because of her wish to keep her husband’s body intact. As the twisted and absurd journey of retrieving the leg unfolds, their past of love and regrets also surfaces. Gwei and Yang dance over the score composed by Lu Luming (Detention, the 2019 winner of Best Original Film Song), and brilliantly deliver the various bittersweet aspects of love.

The 2020 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival will be held between November 5th and November 22nd. More line-ups and news will be announced on the official website, Facebook fan page and Instagram.

Classmates Minus will be released in Taiwan on November 20th. A Leg will be released in Taiwan on December 24th.

MandarinVision is launching sales on A Sun, Taiwanese veteran auteur CHUNG Mong-Hong’s new film since his last critical acclaimed drama Godspeed.

Starring veteran actors CHEN Yi-Wen, Samantha KE and rising star WU Chien-Ho, A Sun is about an ordinary family of four who goes through a series of unexpected events that lead to a change of fate.

CHUNG Mong-Hong’s previous film Godspeed traveled around the world in multiple film festivals, including Toronto, Tokyo, Santa Barbara, Edinburgh, Seattle, Melbourne and Sarajevo. It opened the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and received 8 nominations for Golden Horse Awards.

CHUNG has also actively produced films, including Xiao Mei, last year’s Berlinale Panorama selection, and The Great Buddha+, Taiwan’s entry for Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film, both of which he worked as director of cinematography.

In Hong Kong Filmart, MandarinVision debuted supernatural thriller The 9th Precinct whose first teaser will be revealed in Cannes. Other titles for sale include period drama , starring pop singer Rainie YANG and Jay SHIH, and comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Show starring O.D. and LIM Min Chen.

The Movie “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Show!” which is adapted from the same-name popular stage drama has been shooting for one month. Today(12/8),the movie crew holds a media visit to reveal the billion on-site setting for the movie version only. The exclusive movie plot “The Best Show’ is designed with the HOT  online live broadcast and view  hits competition, reaching the climax of this film.  “Movies can make all the impossibility what the dramas can’t do come true !” says the director Nien Tsu, Hsieh.

The Movie “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Show!” talks about a failed TV station how to save the view rate with only 2 staff ? All the crazy and ridiculous ideas comes up! Many famous TV stars and actors are also invited to play in this film, paying respect to Taiwanese TV industry.