To protect prospective buyers from unwittingly buying properties with stigmas attached, the Happy Real Estate Agency launched the “Happy Stigmatized House App” and created a special investigations team to build a map and database of stigmatized properties across the Greater Taipei region.
Faced with paying off her mother’s debts and selling the stigmatized property her missing father left behind when he disappeared 18 years ago, optimistic and hardworking agent Lu An Chi takes on the Happy Stigmatized House App assignment. Desperate for money and not afraid of ghosts, An Chi partners up with rookie assistant Yo Da Chih, who can see dead people but loses his psychic abilities whenever he sneezes. Together, they begin a series of investigations into properties that have been stigmatized for various reasons. Along the way, they are gradually changed by their profound experiences, realizing that they are not just investigators and detectives but also psychotherapists, life consultants, and even enforcers of justice.(Source: pavilion.taicca.tw)
Tags: Supernatural Being, Ghost-seeing Male Lead, Ghost, Suspense (Vote or add tags)Episodes: 14
Duration: 47 min.
Country: Taiwan
Airs On: Friday
Aired: May 31, 2024 - ?
Content Rating: Not Yet Rated
Ami, a backpacker from Japan who is four years older than high school student Jimmy, shows up at his part-time job. The two end up spending the summer working at the same store, but Jimmy gradually develops a faint crush on Ami. The two of them grew closer as they rode motorcycles together at night and went to the movies, but suddenly, Ami decided to return to Japan. Ami proposes her "one promise" to Jimmy, who can't sort out his feelings.
As time passes, Jimmy visits his parents' house for the first time in a while and finds a postcard that Ami sent him 18 years ago when she returned to Japan. Jimmy's memories of his first love come back to him, and he takes his first solo trip to Japan to confront his past and examine his present. Jimmy rides the train while listening to songs that remind him of his memories with Ami, and he heads to her hometown. Will Jimmy be able to reunite with Ami?
(Source: Japanese = happinet-phantom.com)
Adapted from the travel essay "Qing Chun 18×2: Riben Manche Liulang Ji" (青春18×2 日本慢車流浪記) by Bluefoxing (藍狐) [2014].
Co-production with Taiwan.
Duration: 2 hr. 3 min.
Content Rating: G - All Ages
Ratings: 7.9
Saving Mother Robot tells the story of single mother Cao Yi, whose everyday life consists of her finding ways to make money and raise her young son, Xiao Hu. However, Xiao Hu feels that his mother does not have enough time to spend with him, so he frequently acts out in response. He also fantasizes that his mother will turn into the legendary “Madeleine” robot.
Coincidentally, Cao Yi’s superior sends her to become an assistant to Xiao Tie, an eccentric photographer whose hobby is obsessively searching for UFOs. Because Xiao Tie was also raised in a single-parent home, he interacts with Xiao Hu in interesting ways and ultimately helps the young boy understand his mother’s situation.
18 year-old Ai lives the life of a mischievous teenager. She ignores her studies, putting all her passion into baking cakes that always come out burnt, lopsided, or hard as a rock. Ai cannot imagine a greater happiness than one day making the perfect pastry, until someone new walks into her life and Ai discovers some things in life are sweeter than cake.
This is Miao Miao, a shy exchange student from Japan. Yet behind Miao Miao’s modest exterior hides a master chef. Miao Miao teaches Ai the delicate art of baking and Ai introduces Miao Miao to Taipei’s ugliest snack, chicken feet. Both girls promise to make this year special. The year Miao Miao will do everything she’s not allowed to do at home.
Ai imagines this as a life where they can do whatever they want. Get a tattoo or a belly button ring. A life away from her estranged father. But for Miao Miao, this means finding her first love. The kind of love her grandmother still talks about, even after Alzheimer’s has erased all other memories.
As the year’s big baking competition nears, Miao Miao spends less time by the oven and more time in a second-hand CD shop (once, it was a cake shop where Miao Miao’s grandma first found love as a young girl). Its owner, Chen Fei, shuts out the world, using his headphones like earplugs. Miao Miao makes it her mission to uncover what past sadness has led him to hate music so much. But when Ai realizes Miao Miao is falling in love with Chen Fei, Ai discovers her feelings for Miao Miao may go deeper than she ever expected.
That summer, Miao Miao and Ai learned what it is to love. Their summer together perhaps did not last long. But life’s emotional journey is just beginning.