Zhi-Ping Tang

Four individuals, each dealing with personal challenges, team up to create a dating company that helps people find love after hardship.

Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee Kang-sheng (“Days,” “Goodbye, Dragon Inn”) are attached to “Twisted Strings”, a TV anthology series backed by HBO Asia and streamer Catchplay.The seven-part series is written and directed by Golden Horse-nominated director, Huang Xi (“Missing Johnny”). Hou is attached as the series executive producer. Lee, who has appeared exclusively in films over the past 30 years, notably those of famed Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang, stars.

After losing a project bid, locomotive designer Lin Zhenyi faces failure when her leadership role is taken over by Tan Qingchuan, an overseas returnee. As they work together, Lin Zhenyi learns from Tan and his assistant Jian Aixing’s approach, gaining insight into her own shortcomings. She uses this newfound knowledge to succeed in her next project while navigating romantic pursuits from both Tan Qingchuan and her new neighbor, Li Yanfeng, a research test pilot.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Chih-Ju Lin, Go Go Sister! is an inspiring series that fills one with positive energy. Amanda returns to the garment factory her father used to manage before he passed away. The factory is heavily in debt, but Amanda is determined to revive it. With the aid of her friend Feng, Amanda forms a softball team with the workers in a bid to save the factory.

During the period of martial law in 1960s Taiwan, some teachers and students from Cui Hua High School were arrested for possessing banned books. A female student fell to her death and rumors spread of a ghost haunting the campus. Thirty years later, the draconian culture of the school remains unchanged as a new transfer student uncovers the dark secrets behind the school’s haunting.

When Gao Fei, the third son of a rich business man, first meets Qi Mei, a girl with a completely different lifestyle, he's struck by their similarities. Coincidence after coincidence leads them to meet several times, and Gao Fei begins to fall in love with Qi Mei. Unknown to him, his older brother, Gao Qun, has fallen for the same girl, but their parents disapprove of either son being in a relationship with Qi Mei. Things get even more complicated when Gao Qun dies in a car crash right after Qi Mei accepts Gao Fei, causing a guilt in Gao Fei that drives him and Qi Mei apart. Faced with opposition from Gao Fei's parents and interference from Qi Mei's best friend, Tian Li, and Gao Fei's older brother Gao Jie, Gao Fei and Qi Mei seem destined to never be together. Little do they know that the fate that connects them started much earlier...

After watching a high jump competition on TV, Lu Rui Xi was so inspired by a jumper named Zuo Yi Quan that she decides to transfer to his school, which happened to be an all-boys school; therefore, she disguises herself as a boy to get accepted. At the school, Rui Xi befriends Jin Xiu Yi. One day during a friendly soccer match, Rui Xi is knocked unconscious by Xiu Yi. Quan carries her to the infirmary and realizes that Rui Xi is in fact a girl! However, Quan keeps her identity a secret. At the same time, Xiu Yi starts to question his own sexual orientation when he finds himself having feelings towards Rui Xi.

"Xiaoyanglou", in the context of Tianjin, tells the story of the sorrowful joys and sorrows of the Tianjin business giant Sima Zuyin living in Xiaoyanglou from the late period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the four-year civil war, the establishment of the new China until the reform. The side shows the history of the Chinese nation's changing past half century. Through the depiction of the fate of the characters in the play, it outlines a period of ups and downs, outlines the life of the Chinese people connected with the blood in this era, and outlines the history and reality that both sides of the strait belong to the same China.

Filmmaker Zhou Pin-yu interviews a serial killer in prison — an encounter that triggers a string of mysterious events tied to a buried past.