Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) is hosting a showcase of Taiwanese talent and projects at Filmart today, just as local productions are heading for a record-breaking first quarter at the Taiwanese box office.
The stars of two upcoming Taiwanese productions will attend the TAICCA showcase in Hong Kong – Ivy Yi-han Chen, star of TV series Addicted, who also recently starred in record-breaking hit Sunshine Women’s Choir, and Liu Kuan-Ting, who stars in upcoming feature film Haru And Tae and also has credits including recent hits A Foggy Tale and Double Happiness.
Addicted, directed by Cheng Fen-fen and also starring Joseph Chang (The Victim’s Game) and Tien Hsin (Women In Taipei), follows two women with unresolved life issues who sink into addiction together, while an anti-narcotics officer struggles with a relationship that he realises is akin to substance abuse. The series is produced by Taiwan’s Strong Productions for broadcaster PTS.
Haru And Tae, directed by Akira Ikeda and also starring Yo Kimiko, Joe Ikeda and Sun Ke-Fang (Little Big Women), is the story of an elderly woman who alarms the local villagers when she adopts a strange creature she finds in the mountains. Currently in post-production, the film is a co-production between Taiwan’s Oxygen Films and Japan’s Shimensoka Co with Hope Content Marketing handling international sales.
The two projects are among 243 Taiwanese film and TV titles being offered to international buyers at Filmart this week. The market is currently on a high with a string of local films lighting up the box office over the past six months.
Sunshine Women’s Choir, a heart-warming prison drama released at the end of last year, has become the highest-grossing local film of all time in Taiwan with more than $22M (TWD700M). Other local hits have included historical drama A Foggy Tale, action thriller 96 Minutes, horror film Mudborn and gangster film Gatao: Big Brothers.
According to Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, local productions grossed a cumulative $30M (TWD971M) in the first quarter of 2026, surpassing box office for Taiwanese films for the whole of 2025, and marking the highest first quarter receipts for local films on record. As a result, Taiwanese films currently have a more than 58% share of overall box office this quarter, compared to just 4% during the same period last year.
Other upcoming Taiwanese productions being promoted at Filmart include family drama I Blew Out The Candles Before Making A Wish, starring Kai Ko; Suffocation, Taiwan’s first single-shot horror feature, directed by Louis Chan and Stone Chang; biographical documentary I Dream Of The Ocean, about renowned Taiwanese ocean literature writer Syaman Raponan; and restored classic Connection By Fate, previously selected for Venice film festival.
Several Taiwanese projects have also 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 with 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.
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