The 2025 Taipei Golden Horse Movie Pageant has unveiled its opening and shutting evening choices, with Chen Yu-hsun’s “A Foggy Story” getting its world premiere bow and Mariko Tetsuya’s “Pricey Stranger” starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Gwei Lun-mei closing the fest.
Chen Yu-hsun, the multi-Golden Horse Award winner behind “My Lacking Valentine,” returns with “A Foggy Story,” set in opposition to Taiwan’s White Terror period. The movie follows a woman from Chiayi who travels north to retrieve her brother’s stays. The solid consists of Caitlin Fang (“American Woman”), Will Or (“Drifting”), singer 9m88 and Tseng Jing-hua.
“Once I was a bit boy, I used to be at all times thrilled to see the opening of department shops, the place every thing appeared so brilliant and cheerful. And that turns into a bit want for me,” Chen stated. “Now my desires have come true to have my movie opening the Golden Horse Movie Pageant, I’m deeply blissful and actually honored.”
Govt producer Yeh Jufeng described the story as “their memory and evaluate of that period, in addition to their agency perception in real friendship and human nature.” Govt producer Lee Lieh added that whereas they “wouldn’t dare to boast about being the perfect,” they “rigidly consider on this movie and hope this genuineness and sincerity will likely be delivered to each viewer.”
The closing movie “Pricey Stranger” reunites Japanese director Mariko with the Golden Horse viewers following his earlier fest entries “Destruction Infants” and “Miyamoto.” The thriller stars Nishijima and Gwei as a married couple in New York whose seemingly blissful life unravels after their son is kidnapped, exposing hidden pasts and suppressed feelings.
“I’m actually grateful to take part on this movie. It leads me again to the place to begin of appearing and opens a brand new door to inventive creation for me,” Gwei stated. “I admire Golden Horse for inviting this movie, and I’m honored to share it with you, hoping that it’s going to accompany and resonate with you to maneuver on within the subsequent journey of your life.”
The pageant can be presenting a Nishijima Hidetoshi retrospective that includes three of his key performances: Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s “License to Dwell” (1998), which earned him finest actor on the Japanese Skilled Film Awards; Amir Naderi’s “Lower” (2011); and Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s “Drive My Automobile” (2021), for which he received finest actor on the Nationwide Society of Movie Critics Awards and the Japan Academy Movie Prize.
The pageant runs Nov. 6-23.
