#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

[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…

[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)

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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]

Hands of the Five Eunuchs

[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

[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.

[dtriad]

I came across this bilibili video with commentary on a lot of the actors in Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1994). Adding my own scatter-brained thoughts on some of the featured characters, with timestamps:

Bi Yanjun as Yang Xiu / Li Ru (6:31) - omg TIL they were played by the same actor? I see it now... the power of facial hair & acting lmao. I like Yang Xiu a lot :3 though here he's not overtly obnoxious (affectionate) like Zhai Tianlin's Yang Xiu in TAA

Li Jianyi / Xiu Zongdi as Chen Gong (7:00) - XZD's Chen Gong is /chef's kiss/ I love the final Cao Cao/Chen Gong breakup scene at 白门楼, Cao Cao gazing at his white moonlight who refuses any possibility of surrender/reconciliation (Cao Cao: you'd rather be with Lü Bu than be with me??? HIM??? and now you'd rather die than be with me???)

Cao Li as Lu Su (9:17) - babyface mengmeng!!!!!! way too cute & honest compared to historical Lu Su haha

Gao Lancun as Sima Zhao (10:17) - confession, I still haven't watched the whole thing in order b/c I keep jumping around & picking out scenes/arcs instead, sooooo I have mostly skipped Sima Zhao content... but I love OP's description of Sima Zhao "who seems like he's looking at [others as] trash" lmaooo

An Yaping as Ma Chao (10:53) - 锦马超! Luo Guanzhong: /sweating I gotta spruce up this guy dammit! well good job LGZ I love watching him go after Cao Cao

Chen Hong as Diaochan (11:35) - MY DARLING!!!!!!! I really enjoy all the moments when she darts a glance at Dong Zhuo or Lü Bu to gauge her next move. & LOVE her character song—

Yang Fan / Zhang Shan / Hou Yongsheng as Zhao Yun (12:28) - ZILONG! ZILONG! too many A+ character songs... Zhang Shan's horsemanship was crazy good

Wu Xiaodong as Sun Quan (13:20) - he successfully captures that bearing/air as a ruling lord, but I'm sorry Sun Quan every time I look at you I think 孙十万... pls, let your generals do the fighting 😂 also I am weirded out by the fact he's got a luxurious beard while Zhou Yu goes around w/o one because then he would blow his identity as young Yuan Shao (speaking of facial hair, they dropped the ball with Sun Ce, why didn't he get a beard as nice as Sun Quan's!!)

Zhang Tianshu / Fan Zhiqi as Jiang Wei (14:14) - my young bb 甜姜! my old bb 苦姜! ;_______; ok tbh the thing that bugs me most about the 2010 drama is that they end the final ep with Sima Yi's death and toss in a voiceover "yadda yadda a decade+ later, Shu surrendered, yadda yadda" and THAT'S IT???? BUT WHERE IS THE CULMINATION OF THE TRAGEDY OF JI HAN???? JIANG WEI???? if you don't wanna adapt that part then ok just own it and wrap up the show with a thematically appropriate ending, why even bother to shove the idea of 分久必合 into the voiceover during the last half-minute as;dlkfja;sdlk. anyway wahhhh @ OP's commentary: "姜维是承载着蜀汉的所有美好与激情的存在，但是最后终会化为壮烈与凄凉 [...] 我们会在樊志起的身上看到诸葛亮，看到关羽，看到赵云，看到刘备的影子" ;______;

Zhang Guangbei as Lü Bu (17:15) - hahaha omg he originally intended to audition for Zhou Yu???? ok, especially after reading 《早安！三国打工人》I can't help but admit he's become my poor little muddle-headed meow meow... and ZGB is A+ in this role

Hong Yuzhou as Zhou Yu (18:35) - 美周郎 absolutely deserves that BGM cut at 19:28 /swishes cloak

Wei Zongwan as Sima Yi (20:37) - SO. MUCH. happening beneath the stillness of Sima Yi. he also deserves that BGM cut at 21:24. the ultimate 猫头鹰!!

Sun Yanjun as Liu Bei (23:27) - I like the historical Liu Bei more than ROTK Liu Bei, but major major major props to SYJ for, frankly, elevating ROTK Liu Bei with his portrayal, so 央三 Liu Bei > novel ROTK Liu Bei \o/

Tang Guoqiang as Zhuge Liang (24:31) - YES

Bao Guo'an as Cao Cao (26:46) - HELL YES

this got so much longer than I expected /facepalm

[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/

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