#shao yu wei

[stuff-diary]

Hello Ghost!

Movies watched in 2023

Hello Ghost! (2023, Taiwan)

Director: Hsieh Pei Ju

Writer: Chou Ching Wen

Mini-review:

I have to say I expected more from Hello Ghost!, but it's still an okay movie. The cast is great, and the final plot twist did caught me by surprise. On top of that, there are a lot of funny scenes, and the script has a pretty solid sense of humor. However, the story moves at such a hurried pace that it barely takes time to set up the major plot points and the characters' development. I don't know, I feel like it would have been a much richer movie if it had let the story simmer a bit more. Also, the film includes some pretty dark themes that might be triggering, even if they are approached with a somewhat lighthearted, comedic tone. I'd recommend looking up some content warnings.

[feng-huli]

Dance party of the Five Eunuchs! 🍠

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: White Cat Legend (2024)

Gifs of Intro of cdrama "White Cat Legend"

【ENG SUB FULL】 White Cat Legend EP1 Demon Cat in the Present World 大理寺少卿游 iQIYI

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV_Nq-w6M5k

[staydandy]

Candle in the Tomb 3: The Wrath of Time (2019) - 怒晴湘西 - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : Tomb raider and head of the Xieling Clan, Chen Yu Lou joins hands with warlord Luo Lao Wai and heads to Xiangxi to explore tombs of the Yuan dynasty. On his journey, he meets Zhe Gu Shao who is not interested in any treasures but wants to find a magical bead that can put an end to the curse on his clan. Yu Lou and Gu Shao eventually form an alliance to tread the untrodden path to the Yuan tombs. (MDL)

Whumpee : Chen Yu Lou played by Pan Yue Ming (forefront right, with fan) • Zhe Gu Shao played by Gao Wei Guang (forefront left, right next to Yu Lou)

Country : 🇨🇳 China Genres : Adventure, Historical, Mystery, Supernatural, Bromance

Notes : This is a Full Whump List • Adapted from the 7th volume in the novel series "Candle in the Tomb" (鬼吹灯) by Zhang Mu Ye (天下霸唱) • TW : animal cruelty

Related Lists : Candle in the Tomb 1 (2016) - Full List • Candle in the Tomb 2: The Weasel Grave (2017) - Full List • Candle in the Tomb 4: The Lost Caverns (2020) - Full List • Candle in the Tomb 5: The Worm Valley (2021) - Full List • Candle in the Tomb 6: Kunlun Tomb (2022) - Full List

Episodes on List : 9 Total Episodes : 21

*Spoilers below*

02 : (Seriously .. why do these tomb raiding shows use so many bugs?! ech 🤮) ... (TW @ 14:40 animal cruelty) Chen Yu Lou dizzy, collapses; poisoned/paralyzed

04 : Falls off a ladder … thrown to the ground by something, unconscious, wakes briefly, passes out again … carried

05 : Zhe Gu Shao slapped

14 : Yu Lou fights a giant centipede; knocked to the ground, thrown through some doors … Gu Shao fighting the centipede; knocked into a pillar

15 : Falls down a well.. dizzy … eats something; dizzy, collapses, hallucinates/dreams.. found passed out.. wakes suddenly, coughing up blood

16 : Yu Lou in a fight; hand bitten, poisoned into a mindless killing spree, dogpiled on top of to stop him … unconscious, tied up, wakes with no memory of the poison, too weak to stand under his own power

17 : Gu Shao falls down a crevasse … Yu Lou in shock … Gu Shao punched

18 : Knocked out with the butt of a gun.. Gu Shao & Yu Lou captured & tied up

20 : Yu Lou tossed around in a fight; chokehold.. slammed into a pillar, spitting up blood … dizzy, overwhelmed by grief, collapses … collapses

[exhalcyon]

Context for Lu Bu’s beef with Xiahou Dun is here

This is continued here

Yuan Shao has his DW6 look b/c he looks almost unrecognizable in DW5 XD

[peridot-tears]

I got no faith that AC Jade won't be Orientalist. It's another one of those western games that want to imitate Cdramas but will probably fall into the white idea of what ancient China is (stares in mulan 2020).

On a related note -- I love Shao Jun as a character, but you can hear that she's voiced by a white woman with a caricaturist's accent a million miles away.

[binging-asian-dramas]

Fall In Love. 9/10

Story: 10

Acting: 10

Chemistry: 10

Comparable to: Maids Revenge (cdrama) ; Cruel Romance (cdrama)

One of my favorite historical cdrama’s. It takes place in the 1920s (republican era) which is an unique era of a cdrama you don’t see many of. The storyline is executed excellently with just enough mystery, action, melodrama, and romance. The chemistry between the two main leads are brilliantly casted and oofing are they oozing with smexyness together. It does take a few episodes for the momentum to get into, but it’s overall an outstanding drama where you won’t want to stop watching. Warning there also is sensitive subjects of attempted rape and suicide.

[sesiondemadrugada]

Deep Evil (Mark Lu, 2019).

[ttoca]

Context Is Overrated

[moviereviews101web]

Lost in Perfection (2023) Movie Review

Lost in Perfection – Movie Review Director: Hsin Yin Sung (On Happiness Road) Cast Yu-Wei Shao (Hello Ghost) Mei-Hsiu Lin (Forever Young) Rhydian Vaughn (Concubine of Shanghai) Figaro Tseng (More than Blue) Tien-Chu Lee (The Golden Years) Chia-Kuei Chen (Ro Sun) Plot: TV anchor life unravels when she discovers her dad become the victim of a romance scam. Making matters worse, the scammer…

[stuff-diary]

The On1y One

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

The On1y One (2024, Taiwan)

Director: Liu Kuang Hui

Writers: Wang Yu Chen & Liu Kuang Hui (based on the novel by Mu Su Li)

Mini-review:

Okay, why did nobody tell me the director of Your Name Engraved Herein had made a whole-ass gay drama? Just from that fact, I already knew I would love this. It certainly has more of a BL vibe compared to the movie, probably due to the source material, but it still manages to avoid basically all the toxic tropes and stereotypes. I really appreciate when these type of dramas take as much time as necessary to properly flesh out the characters and their bond, which is what you get here. People looking for constant romance will be disappointed, but the leads have fantastic chemistry, and seeing their development is exactly what makes it special. But truly, the characters are so relatable; the show uses them to make some beautiful reflections on life and youth. My biggest complaint is that the pace does get a bit too slow from time to time. Still, The On1y One is a gorgeously made drama and I definitely hope that second season happens.

[feng-huli]

Unofficial attire, past and present

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Decline (2023)

#Cdrama #BL "i would wait until you come back." #Shorts #webdrama #江湖少年诀

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fXjf16fDpvI

[quotablefanfiction]

“Ohh. Do they still have that thing?” “If by ‘thing’ you mean a decades-long blood feud,” Jiang Cheng says. “So Sect Leader Shao is fighting with both the Yu and Jia sects?” Wei Wuxian says, “If you have more than one blood feud, you might want to consider that you’re the problem, here.”

cultivation world seating plans are very complicated (chp. 1)

the only way out by cafecliche (AO3) Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed – Teen – Lan Zhan/Wei Wuxian #Post-Canon #Event planning #One part character study #One part comedy of errors #and one part fix-it #Wei Wuxian is a people pleaser

“Just do what you can, Senior Wei!” Sizhui whispers. “We’ll be right here!”

“Yeah!” Jingyi says. “And just remember: it’s going to be a disaster either way, so it’s not like there’s much you can do about it!”

(Or: Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng plan a discussion conference together. It goes about as well as Wei Wuxian expects.)

Part 3 of the yungmeng accords series (AO3)

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

A Definitive (See: Extremely Subjective) Ranking of (Not All) Yu Zheng Dramas

With the Double airing, it has occurred to me that despite all of my critiques of Yu Zheng, I have watched quite a number of Yu Zheng dramas. Two reasons: (1) I do love a palace makjang, and Yu Zheng wrote a lot of them before harem dramas got banned, and (2) Yu Zheng is a prolific producer.

Disclaimer: despite everything, I have not seen Female Prime Minister.

So a definitively, extremely subjective, rank of Yu Zheng dramas.

Gong 1 aka Jade Palace Lock Heart. A plot that is banned these days. Modern girl time travels back to Qing dynasty, specifically during the Kangxi era, and gets mixed up in the dynastic battle between the 4th prince and the 8th prince. Starring Yang Mi and Feng Shao Feng. Copious plagiarism from Hana Yori Dango/Meteor Shower, FL advises a Kangxi concubine to rollerblade her way into seduction, and the start of Yu Zeng's neon era. Does it have the cerebral gut punch that Bu Bu Jin Xin gave? Nope. But it remains an extremely fun watch. Only 35 episodes.

Scheme of Beauty/Beauties Rival in the Palace (the first one, I have not seen subsequent ones). An extremely fictional story about Empress Dou of Han, played by Ruby Lin, also featuring Yang Mi, Feng Shao Feng, and Luo Jin, back when he was still playing the second ML. There is some plagiarism scandal attached to it, but I will say that plot wise it's probably the most tightly written of all Yu Zheng works.

Yanxi Palace. I admit, I am a Legend of Ruyi girl through and through, but upon re-watch, honestly Yanxi Palace is so fun. It is a later era Yu Zheng, when he's no longer as restrained by thing like "put less plot armor on your main characters," but it is probably the drama that plays best into Yu Zheng's strength, aka a fun makjang.

Gong 2. Was Yu Zheng trying to rip off Zhen Huan? Yes. BUT it's a fun watch with albeit VERY NEON outfits.

Legend of Haolan. The story about Qin Shi Huang's mother. Wu Jinyan playing a very Wei Yingluo character, so enjoyable watch, but also it felt very ... Yu Zheng madlibs.

Ban Shu Legend. The costumes were fugly. But I actually enjoyed the chemistry between Zhang Zhehan and Jing Tian. The plot is a mess though, I can't even describe it.

Untouchable Lovers. It was a mess! but! it's like a whose who of Yu Zheng's current talent roster.

Swordsman. Yes, I'm putting it below Untouchable Lovers because that drama was at least aesthestically pleasing. Swordsman was Yu Zheng's peak neon era and if there is one thing Yu Zheng should have no business touching, it is a classic wuxia.

[the-monkey-ruler]

Bajie (2022) 八戒

Director: Qiu Liwei Starring: Xu Guanghan / Liu Guanting / Harlem Yu / Shao Yuwei / Tuo Zonghua / Zhong Xinling / Wei Ruxuan / Xu Zhanrong / Xu Zhanrui Genre: Comedy / Animation / Adventure Country/Region of Production: Taiwan, China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2022-09-25 (Taiwan, China) / 2023-11-18 (Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival) Duration: 96 minutes Also known as: Pigsy: Battle for the Future / Pigsy / 八戒：决战未来 IMDb: tt27851949 Type: Reimagining

Summary:

In the future world, technology and data dominate everything. When the old city becomes old and crowded, the new world built with the latest technology becomes a place that everyone yearns for. However, only the elites with the highest contribution value are eligible to move in. Bajie (voiced by Xu Guanghan) is lazy and selfish, so he is of course disqualified. However, in order to let his grandmother (voiced by Zhong Xinling) live a good life, he decides to go against his conscience and make a private deal with the president of the construction company, Niu Mowang (voiced by Tuo Zonghua)... The film moves "Journey to the West" to a science fiction scene. Bajie transforms into a cyber fat man, and together with the science and engineering man Sanzang (voiced by Liu Guanting), the hot guard Wukong (voiced by Harlem Yu), and the female robot Xiaojing (voiced by Shao Yuwei), they shuttle through the mixed old and new city scenes and explore the true meaning of happiness.

Source: https://movie.douban.com/subject/36588177/

Link: N/A