''Missing Johnny'' is a 2017 Taiwanese
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
written and directed by Huang Xi. The film stars
Lawrence Ko
Lawrence Ko (; born 28 April 1977) is a Taiwanese actor.
Ko made his film debut when he was four years old. He has had roles in the Edward Yang films ''A Brighter Summer Day'' (1991), ''Mahjong'' (1996) and '' Yi Yi'' (2000), as well as the f ...
,
Rima Zeidan
Rima Zeidan (; ar, ريما زيدان; born May 1, 1990) is a Taiwanese-Lebanese presenter, model and actress from Taiwan. In 2017 she appeared in the film '' Missing Johnny'' for which she was voted Best New Talent at the Taipei Film Festival a ...
and Sean Huang. ''Missing Johnny'' is Huang's debut feature. It is executive produced by
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien (; born 8 April 1947) is a Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice ...
.
Premise
Hsu, a young woman who raises parrots and other feathered creatures in her apartment, keeps getting wrong phone calls for someone named Johnny. Lee, the autistic son of Hsu's landlady, seems to live in his own world. Chang is a shy handyman who feels disoriented whenever his beloved car breaks down. The lives of these three lonely individuals are drawn together when one of Hsu's parrots goes missing one day.
Cast
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Lawrence Ko
Lawrence Ko (; born 28 April 1977) is a Taiwanese actor.
Ko made his film debut when he was four years old. He has had roles in the Edward Yang films ''A Brighter Summer Day'' (1991), ''Mahjong'' (1996) and '' Yi Yi'' (2000), as well as the f ...
as Chang Yi-feng
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Rima Zeidan
Rima Zeidan (; ar, ريما زيدان; born May 1, 1990) is a Taiwanese-Lebanese presenter, model and actress from Taiwan. In 2017 she appeared in the film '' Missing Johnny'' for which she was voted Best New Talent at the Taipei Film Festival a ...
as Hsu Zi-qi
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Sean Huang
Sean Huang (; born 19 June 1991) is a Taiwanese actor. The son of actor Michael Huang, Sean Huang made his film debut in 2010. He won the Golden Bell Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film
This is a list of winners and nominee ...
as Lee Li
* Chang Kuo-chu as Chi-yuan
* Kay Huang as Mrs. Lee
* Duan Chun-hao as Hao
* Tang Zhi-ping as Zhi-wei
* Hsueh Ti-ying as Hsueh
* Pao Chen-fang
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Jack Kao
Jack Kao (, born 23 April 1958) is a Taiwanese actor.
Career
He began his career in the late 1980s films of Hou Hsiao-hsien. Kao credits his success to the many real-life gangsters he knew when he was young. He appeared in '' City of Sadness'' ...
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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2017 films
Taiwanese drama films
2017 drama films
2017 directorial debut films
2010s Mandarin-language films