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Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) is hosting a showcase of Taiwanese talent and projects astatine Filmart today, conscionable arsenic section productions are heading for a record-breaking first 4th astatine nan Taiwanese container office.
The stars of 2 upcoming Taiwanese productions will be nan TAICCA showcase successful Hong Kong – Ivy Yi-han Chen, prima of TV bid Addicted, who besides precocious starred successful record-breaking deed Sunshine Women’s Choir, and Liu Kuan-Ting, who stars successful upcoming characteristic movie Haru And Tae and besides has credits including caller hits A Foggy Tale and Double Happiness.
Addicted, directed by Cheng Fen-fen and besides starring Joseph Chang (The Victim’s Game) and Tien Hsin (Women In Taipei), follows 2 women pinch unresolved life issues who descend into addiction together, while an anti-narcotics serviceman struggles pinch a narration that he realises is akin to constituent abuse. The bid is produced by Taiwan’s Strong Productions for broadcaster PTS.
Haru And Tae, directed by Akira Ikeda and besides starring Yo Kimiko, Joe Ikeda and Sun Ke-Fang (Little Big Women), is nan communicative of an aged female who alarms nan section villagers erstwhile she adopts a unusual animal she finds successful nan mountains. Currently successful post-production, nan movie is simply a co-production betwixt Taiwan’s Oxygen Films and Japan’s Shimensoka Co pinch Hope Content Marketing handling world sales.
The 2 projects are among 243 Taiwanese movie and TV titles being offered to world buyers astatine Filmart this week. The marketplace is presently connected a precocious pinch a drawstring of section films lighting up nan container agency complete nan past six months.
Sunshine Women’s Choir, a heart-warming situation play released astatine nan extremity of past year, has go nan highest-grossing section movie of each clip successful Taiwan pinch much than $22M (TWD700M). Other section hits person included humanities play A Foggy Tale, action thriller 96 Minutes, scary movie Mudborn and gangster movie Gatao: Big Brothers.
According to Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, section productions grossed a cumulative $30M (TWD971M) successful nan first 4th of 2026, surpassing container agency for Taiwanese films for nan full of 2025, and marking nan highest first 4th receipts for section films connected record. As a result, Taiwanese films presently person a much than 58% stock of wide container agency this quarter, compared to conscionable 4% during nan aforesaid play past year.
Other upcoming Taiwanese productions being promoted astatine Filmart see family play I Blew Out The Candles Before Making A Wish, starring Kai Ko; Suffocation, Taiwan’s first single-shot scary feature, directed by Louis Chan and Stone Chang; biographical documentary I Dream Of The Ocean, astir renowned Taiwanese water lit writer Syaman Raponan; and restored classical Connection By Fate, antecedently selected for Venice movie festival.
Several Taiwanese projects person besides been selected for this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) including Cheung Wai-yu’s Mama Mia Let Me Go!, a co-production pinch Hong Kong and Korea; Chin Chia-hua’s A Ghost In The Market; Ken Yang’s A Vampire, Probably, and Lu Po-Shun’s Taiwan-Singapore co-production Will You Still Be My Friend.
