Directed by:
Adam TsueiScreenplay:
Giddens KoCast:
Simon Yam, Ivy Shao, Phil Hou, Kang-Sheng Lee, Toyoharu Kitamura, Kaiser Chuang, Kai Feng, Vera Chen, Chun Sen, Alex Ko, Sophia Lu, Ryan Kuo, Sean Lin, An-Shun YuPlots(1)
The most hotly anticipated Taiwanese film of the year is a lurid fantasy of wounded flesh and accursed lives that entwine and separate in a building run by a landlord (Simon Yam), who seeks to find a particular type of tenant for the property he inherits from his relatives. Driven by his desire of peeping into the darkest aspects of human nature, what he sees through the eyes of the omnipresent cameras ain't pretty... but it gives him the wry, abject satisfaction of a dark god lording over and leering at the souls of the damned, his imagination hungering toward them. A devil-like figure, he patiently tends to the needs of a barbecue pit of deranged tenants: a gymnastics teacher with a record of domestic abuse; a shut-in college student who spends his days and nights in front of his computer screen; a sexually frustrated single father and his innocent young daughter; a mysterious ghostly girl in white; a gay couple trying to hide their relationship; and a sexy office worker who loses herself in an endless spiral of seedy love affairs. Violence and perverse desires come together in a writhing narrative based on a controversial book by writer Giddens Ko, recalling the golden age of Category III in the sweaty confines of a Taiwanese cinematic form. (Hawaii International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Simon Yam
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Ip Man (2008)
Ip Man 2 (2010)
Night and Fog (2009)
Ivy Shao
Taiwan
Best movies:
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
The 9th Precinct (2019)
Phil Hou
Taiwan
Best movies:
You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011)
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
Destiny Love (2008) (series)
Kang-Sheng Lee
Taiwan
Best movies:
Vive L'Amour (1994)
The Hole (1998)
Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Toyoharu Kitamura
Japan
Best movies:
It Started with a Kiss (2005) (series)
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
Miao Miao (2008)
Kaiser Chuang
Taiwan
Best movies:
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
Who Killed Cock Robin? (2017)
Tears (2009)
Kai Feng
Taiwan
Best movies:
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
Vera Chen
Taiwan
Best movies:
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
The Rope Curse 3 (2023)
Chun Sen
Malaysia
Best movies:
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
Alex Ko
Taiwan
Best movies:
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
The Treasure Hunter (2009)
Sophia Lu
Taiwan
Best movies:
Campus Confidential (2013)
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
Black & White Episode 2: The Dawn of Justice (2014)
Ryan Kuo
Taiwan
Best movies:
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
Sean Lin
Taiwan
Best movies:
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
Incantation (2022)
An-Shun Yu
Taiwan
Best movies:
The Terrorizers (1986)
The Great Buddha + (2017)
A Time to Live, a Time to Die (1985)