Café. Waiting. Love
| Café. Waiting. Love | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Chiang Chin-lin |
| Starring |
Megan Lai Vivian Sung Bruce Hung Marcus Chang Pauline Lan Lee Luo Vivian Chow |
Release dates |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Language | Mandarin |
| Box office |
NT$37.1 million (Taipei) HK$9.3 million (Hong Kong) |
Café. Waiting. Love (Chinese: 等一個人咖啡; pinyin: deng yi ge ren ka fei; literally: "waiting for someone, coffee" is a 2014 Taiwanese romantic comedy film directed by Chiang Chin-lin.[1]
Promo slogan
| “ | 每一個人，都在等一個人。 | ” |
(English translation: Everyone is waiting for a certain someone.)
Plot
Si-ying (Vivian Sung) is a university freshman who works part-time at a café. Here, she met A Bu-si (Megan Lai), a professional coffee maker who can make any type of coffee according to a customer's order, the shop's proprietress (Vivian Chow) who is often quiet and alone, seated at a corner of her café most of the time, as well as Ze-Yu (Marcus Chang).
One day, Senior A-Tuo (Bruce Hung), a senior of Si-ying's who's pretty legendary in the university, came to the café with his friends where he met a lesbian who stole his girlfriend - A bu-si, by coincidence. As the friends kept teasing A-Tuo, Si-ying, full of helping and justice heart, helped A-Tuo out of the difficult situation. The two of them eventually became friends after several encounters. Senior A-Tuo is an optimistic person with a happy-go-lucky personality. Besides working part-time at a roadside stall, he also works for Bao Ge (Lee Luo), who was a movie director and now a mediator for gangs, as a cook at his restaurant. There, he got to know Aunt Jin-dao, Bao's wife, (Pauline Lan), and learned to cook a noodle dish from her. After Bao and his wife fell out due to a petty argument, she started up her own dry-cleaning shop which was where Si-ying first met with Aunt Jin-Dao.
Started out as acquaintances, Si-ying and A-Tuo become good friends with each other after hanging out for some time. A-Tuo started having feelings for Si-ying, but Si-ying only treated him as a friend whom she can confess any thinking in her heart openly, as she likes Ze-Yu. Later, Senior A-Tuo went backpacking overseas. It was during this period that Si-Ying realised that A-Tuo is the one whom she has been waiting for all along...
Cast
- Vivian Sung as Si-ying
- Bruce Hung as Senior A-Tuo
- Megan Lai as A Bu-si
- Vivian Chow as Proprietress
- Katie Chen as young proprietress
- Marcus Chang as Ze-yu
- Hong Yan Xiang as young Ze-yu
- Lee Luo as Bao
- Pauline Lan as Aunt Jin-dao
- Yuri Gao as A-zu
Reception
It has grossed NT$37.1 million in Taipei and HK$9.3 million in Hong Kong.[1]
Production crew
- Executive Producer: Giddens Ko, Angie Chai
- Director: Chiang Chin-lin
- Original Screenplay: Giddens Ko
- Productions: K4s Motion Studio, VieVision Pictures, Amazing Film Studio, Star Ritz Productions Co., LTD.
References
- 1 2 Kevin Ma (August 26, 2014). "The Four finale tops China box office". Film Business Asia. Retrieved August 26, 2014.