Esther Liu

타이완의 한 시골 마을에서 닭 농장을 하는 휘준은 곧 결혼을 앞둔 남동생, 십대 조카 신루와 함께 살고 있다. 미혼의 손위 누이는 동생의 결혼 피로연에 앉을 수 없다는 친척들의 어깃장에 휘준은 어쩐지 죄책감을 느낀다. 신루가 깔아준 데이팅 앱에서 만난 프랑스인 마르탱과 ‘샐리’라는 가명으로 연애를 시작한 휘준은 마르탱이 갑자기 사라지자 그를 찾아 파리로 떠난다. 휘준이 처음 혼자 경험하는 작은 마을 밖의 세상은 낯설지만 찬란하다. 휘준을 걱정거리로 인식하는 듯한 가족을 떠나, 휘준은 좌충우돌하며 자신의 세계를 증명하고자 한다.

세상 종말이 와도 먹는 것을 멈출 수 없는 귀요미 먹방 요정, 웨이신 좋아하는 친구에게 1년 동안 아침 조공을 하는 댕댕이 조공 소년, 요우췐 “나는 1년 동안 절친 앞으로 온 아침 조공을 먹었다” 절친에게 아침 조공을 바친 친구와 사랑에 빠질 확률은? 러블리 먹요정 + 댕댕이 조공 소년 = 첫사랑 먹방 로맨스♥

Specialized in abstract art, Hsu Pao-Ching is a middle-aged painter who struggles in his career. By chance, he begins giving at art lessons in a prison, where he discovers that Chou Chang-Ting, one of the inmates, has great talent for painting. He holds am exhibition of Chou’s works, however as Chou committed random attacks and killed several people, a protest is staged against it. In the end, Hsu gets hurt and the exhibition is withdrawn. Hsu cannot understand why the public cannot appreciate art without prejudice and decides to approach the victims’ family. Moreover, Hsu goes to Chou’s old family home in search of the inspiration for Chou’s paintings.

A-Tai (Alan Ko) narrates that he is the son of Uncle Da (Chen Po-cheng) and Aunt Da (Samantha Ko), who run a troupe in Taichung. Uncle Da's troupe does traditional performance in front of religious processions. The religion requires performers to "initiate the faces and pose as gods"—to put on a special face painting, or to put on a heavy body puppet costume, both of these represent gods' persona. The performance demands training of martial art, acrobatics and endurance, and the performers are negatively associated with gangsters by the society. Uncle Da has been competing with Wu-cheng (Liao Jun), who studied with Uncle Da under the same master. A-Tai grew estranged with his father and the troupe, and went to Taipei to study Rock music, until a mysterious old man in blue coat bids him home.

Follows a group of food vendors who have made their living in the bustling 888 Night Market for over a decade. Their livelihood is threatened when some real estate developer acquires the land where the night market is situated.

Lin Shu-Yu's semi auto-biographical debut takes us back to 1996, during the time of the tragic Taiwan baseball scandal, an event that devastated many teenage boys. The story follows Yen and Tang and their gang through the last year of their high school life. From chasing girls to midnight skinny dipping to rooting for their favorite baseball team, they do everything together. When an accident throws Yen into a coma, their world starts falling apart.