Chen-Ling Wen

Leave Me Alone

For a sleepless city like Taipei, the lives of the rich and poor occasionally cross. These people flit in and out of one another lives, in a seemingly endless food chain of love.

The Gift of All

Ko-Ching, an innocent-wannabe girl suddenly went viral due to the help of her BFF Jia-Ling. The over night sensation pushed Ko-Ching closer to the top streamer Hsiao-Hsuan. The fame Ko-Ching got from streaming grew her vanity, but the price to pay is her bound with Jia-Ling, which causes Ko- Ching gradually loses her life and identity.

On Marriage: Book of Bayes

Jie and Xuan are a happy same-sex couple but Jie is having an affair; she is torn between her recent love-at-first-sight “true love”, and her lifelong partner whom she’d sworn to grow old with. So, the real question is: who is her meant-to-be Ms. Right – predicted by the almighty algorithms?

Love Punch

Xu Chia-yang, a 30-year-old woman who ran into a brick wall in her life, chose to run away from her dream of being a professional boxer. Chen Li-yue, a strict coach with rigid discipline, chose to give up her professional coaching after an accident brought a coma to a student. Can they fight their inner devils and turn their fates around?

Partners in Crime

An ordinary day in an ordinary campus, a girl who was loved by everyone killed herself. Everyone is asking why, but no one knows the truth, except these three: a good student, a bad student, and a weird student. For they know the truth of this incident, they decide to do something unordinary for her, as a revenge. They are the partners in crime. However, with the discovery of the girl’s secret diary, we are about to journey back to our high school lives. As an old saying goes, “High school never ends!”

The Kids

Pao-li is in 8th grade. When Pao-li comes to Jia-jia's rescue, they fall in love. Soon they move in together and have a daughter. However, Jia-jia gradually gets tired of the tedious life and begins an affair with a married man. When Pao-li's mother squanders his savings on gambling, Jia-jia decides to leave Pao-li. In order to win Jia-jia back, Pao-li takes a big risk.

Love in Vain

A-Yan and Xiao-Yu are strangers, but they look just like twins. A-Yan is a country boy who comes to the big city for a better future. However, the girl whom he falls for cheats him out of the insurance payout he has got from his grandmother’s illness. Xiao-Yu who owns a talent agency betrays his business partner. As a result of an attempted kidnap, their lives are entwined with each other.

Exit

After losing her job as a garment worker, Ling sees her prospects dim dramatically: in her mid forties, she lives in a small, dilapidated apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung and spends much of her time locked in arguments with her testy daughter. Her elderly mother is ailing in hospital. On one of her many visits to the ward she notices an injured man and tentatively starts to care for him.

The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful

Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a gruesome murder. Ambition, desire and lust eventually change Tang's relationships with her own family forever.

The Last Verse

The millennium summer was the best days in Ren-jie's life. He met Xiao-ping, walked hand in hand with her through their youth and wrote the opening sentence of his life poem. But a visit by his father in the military changed his life forever. He fell into the uneasy atmosphere of 2006. When he was discharged from the air force, the cruel reality wore away their romantic love. Ren-jie had to leave Xiao-ping. They fell in love under the sun and out of it at sunset. The days tortured them and blurred they clear eyes. When they finally got back together, would they recite again the poem on how beautify life is?

Father to Son

On his 60th birthday, Van is told that he is seriously ill. But instead of going to Taipei for treatment, his illness leads him to Japan. Together with his son, he goes in search of the father who abandoned him 50 years ago. At the same time, a young man with a mysterious connection to Van's past is travelling from Hong Kong to Taiwan.

The 9th Precinct

An idealistic cop joins an underground police unit and battles ghoulish forces threatening the balance between the human and the supernatural realms.

A Sun

A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.

Hotel Blackcat

The Hotel Blackcat's owner, Mang, never leaves the counter. Guests include the immigrant worker, whore, losing-job Japanese, sex-abused man, little Lolita.... The police forces the Hotel to shut down and all guests must leave. What should they do? It's not necessary to lock each room anymore. Keep the door open, you'll find out traces imprinted with figures as well as times.

Faithball

Based on a true story, "Faithball" is a funny, inspiring and heartwarming tale surrounding a group of misfit kids who - along with their well-meaning but flawed baseball coach - start out trying to save their baseball team, but in the end overcome insurmountable obstacles and achieve enormous success for themselves and their community.

Upstairs, Downstairs

The intercom of the apartment is broken. ZhenZhen goes to the neighbors to collect money for the repair. Some neighbors paid forthrightly, while others thought Zhen Zhen is nosy. Zhen Zhen presses Mr Tsai’s doorbell many times but there is no response, except for some weird dog barking…

A Ghost in the Market

The relationship between the gambler A-hai and his wife Jia-yun is tumultuous. Jia-yun runs a stall in the market and often meets Mei and other housewives at a nearby shrine, where they make desserts and discuss Taoism’s promise of eternal life for women. However, Jia-yun cannot stay away for too long, fearing A-hai’s anger. One day, A-hai accidentally beats Jia-yun to death. To A-hai’s surprise, Jia-yun comes back to life soon after and resumes her daily routine. However, her body begins to decay rapidly, causing A-hai to spiral into a state of panic.