Missing Johnny

INTERNATIONAL INVITATION

HUANG Xi | 2017 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 105 min (KN)

SYNOPSIS

Hsu moved to Taipei alone. Recently, she starts to receive phone calls looking for a guy named Johnny. These wrong calls stir up her emotions and prompt her curiosity to put together Johnny’s life piece by piece. Lee is the son of Hsu’s landlord living downstairs. Everyday, Lee listens to his own recordings that repeatedly play his reading of books, newspaper columns or radio contents. Ever since he finds out Hsu’s got a new bird, he can’t concentrate on his daily routines but to pursue her and her birds. Feng is a wandering foreman hired by Lee’s mother and starts a renovation site nearby Lee’s apartment. His beloved old car breaks down on the way to the Lee’s. He’s bewildered by paranoia. Upon the commencement of the construction site, Feng, Lee and Hsu come together because of a lost bird. Their lives merge and cross. Transient beauty from the crisscross of people blooms hereafter.

DIRECTING INTENTION

Memories are carved into city landscapes by people. To tell urban stories, one needs to unravel the doldrums of everyday life. Steering away from solitude of urban individuals, we capture and confront the very face of flashing emotions.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

2017 상하이국제영화제
2017 타이베이영화제
2017 타이베이영화상 각본상, 조연상, 신인상
2017 시닝FIRST국제영화제
2017 중국청년영화포럼 신인여우상, 신인제작자상
2017 금마장영화제 신인배우상
2017 부산국제영화제

DIRECTOR
HUANG Xi

HUANG Xi

2022 Twisted Strings

STAFF

Director HUANG Xi
Executive Producer HOU Hsiao-hsien
Producers CHANG Chu-ti, Sam T.H. YUAN, SHAW Dong-hsu, KUO Chang Long
Production Company 3H Productions Ltd.
Screenwriter HUANG Xi
Director of Editing LIAO Ching-song
Editors HUANG Xi, TSAI Meng-hsin
Cinematographer YAO Hung-i
Lighting HSIAO Hung-yi
Production Design LIANG Shuo-lin
Costume Design Shirley KAO
Music LIM Giong, Point HSU
Cast Rima ZEIDAN, KO Yu-luen, HUANG Yuan