Jian Man-shu

Human nature is like aircraft black box. No matter what it has gone through, it looks the same from outside. The secret within can never be known.

“And they lived happily ever after” is an ending we are all too familiar with. On Marriage focuses on portraying all those struggles that couples encounter when they give up themselves to fulfill their marriage. In this anthology series, each individual episode explores varying meanings of marriage from five unique perspectives.

A woman falls for her psychiatrist while an office worker meets a pampered mommy’s boy. Will love cure their woes – or make things worse?

Three women with completely different personalities met together to start a business due to unexpected circumstances. On this unfavorable road to entrepreneurship, they will eventually learn to laugh at the setbacks, not admit defeat, but grow!

While vacationing at a mountain cabin, a group of longtime friends uncovers an old scandal that could have deadly consequences.

A reborn gangster accidentally found himself being able to see ghosts, which led to a life-changing experience. "Guests" came to him for help one after another... Started from death, what did they want him to see?

Fondant Garden is a 2012 Taiwanese drama starring South Korean singer Park Jung Min and Taiwanese actor/actresses Jian Man Shu, Kingone Wang, and Lia Lee. The series was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air China Television from 24 February and on-going for 16 episodes.

Detective Chu Po not only solves the most crimes but is also a serious gourmet. Killer Li Tze-tung sees every meal as the last in his life, and therefore becomes extremely picky on cuisine. Novice police officer Wu Wei seems straightforward but she has a secret. One night when Chu and Li are forced to share a table, their passion for food forms an unusual bond between them. Later when Wu joins in, their fates entwine and the cruel truth is unveiled as the last dinner draws to a close.

10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.

Hsiao-pei carries on her family’s fortune telling tradition, almost exclusively giving young women love advice. She also runs her college’s tarot club through which she meets the playfully cocky Chiung-nan, who uses the cards to ask her out. A rocky romance ensues, replete with a clumsy seduction, an unexpected fire and both figurative and literal ball busting.

This heart-warming romantic comedy takes place at Nanyang Street, the most famous "cram school" street in Taipei City. A young man works at a copy shop where his life is a boring routine of copying test papers for students. One day he finds a drawing of a sheep mixed in on the test papers, which leads him to an unexpected journey.

Through a famous painting "South Street Festival", a Taiwanese college boy unexpectedly travels 100 years back in time, back to the 1920's, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. He is stuck, he panics, he wants to return to 2014 but soon changes his mind, not just because of the prettiest geisha girl in town...

Open! Open! 2015

A very dynamic young lady, Lin, has a thing for Japanese culture while living in Taiwan. Following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Lin got a Facebook message from a Japanese guy, Mogi who has been curious about the Japan-friendly country since then. The two start to interact through Facebook. During the golden week holiday, they finally met in person in Taiwan. Time passes quickly when they're together. After their first date, things seemed to move forward at the speed of light. They spent more time talking about their hopes, dreams, fears and finally came to a decision together to try and make things work, despite the circumstances.

Soon after a young police officer reports for duty, he is confronted with the unspoken rules. There are people who cannot be questioned and cases that cannot be further investigated. Although he has been sidelined, he refuses to give up the old case. However, having spent so much time and effort, will he find out the truth or some long forgotten conscience?

In Taipei, a rehearsal for Kafka’s Metamorphosis is in full swing as the show’s opening night approaches. Lin’s girlfriend, Julie, is visiting him from Paris. After the rehearsal, he picks her up at the airport and they spend the night together. In the morning, Lin is nowhere to be found and leaves Julie waiting at his apartment

A letter from an old friend brings Mo back to the familiar seaside which he would rather forget, a place away from the city. During his high school days, something happened while he was out with friends one night. What happened at the seaside that summer? Let the sea tell you the secret …

Set in the village of a mountain town, a grocery store owner surprises everyone when she decides to learn English from a young missionary who has just arrived. Through her studies, she slowly begins to reveal secrets that she has kept hidden for over 30 years...