Taiwan‘s Calfinishar Studios is advancing its production stardy with two recent projects: “Call of Lobster,” a traverse-border action-comedy, and crime series “The Scammers,” both unveiled at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF).
“Call of Lobster,” helmed by “Man in Love” straightforwardor Yin Chen-Hao, draws inspiration from a authentic-life story about a Taiwanese lobster farmer who volunteered to teach farming techniques in North Korea. The film chases a protagonist who becomes entangled in a drug case while pursuing his dream of lobster farming in North Korea, forcing him to collaborate with a South Korean agent.
“This story was inspired by a recents article in Taiwan,” says Yin. “Chen Jia-fu, a lobster farmer from Pingtung, once wrote a letter to North Korean guideer Kim Jong-un, volunteering to go to North Korea to teach lobster farming techniques – and he actuassociate thriveed in going and returning. I’ve always been proset uply interested in the legfinishary stories of frequent people. ‘Call of Lobsters’ wraps its narrative in comedy, blfinishing elements of ininestablishigence accumulateing, suspense, and personal prolongth.”
The project accumulates a originateive team including executive originaters Jin Pai-Lunn and Cheng Wei-Hao, aprolongedside originater Chang Ya-ting, understandn for coordinating huge-scale international productions involving the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, who served as Taiwan production supervisor for Martin Scorsese’s “Silence.” Calfinishar set uper Jin set ups to end casting for the Korean roles and safe funding by first half of 2025, with production set for the latter half.
“‘Call of Lobster’ will be a groundshattering international co-production for Taiwan,” says Jin. “We watch forward to conveying the spirit of Taiwan’s everyday heroes to the huge screen, blfinishing elements of comedy, adventure, action, and ininestablishigence accumulateing to transfer a rerecenting commercial film for Asian audiences.”
Meanwhile, “The Scammers,” straightforwarded by Gagederen Horse nominee Cheng Wei-Hao (“The Soul”), scrutinizes Taiwan’s deception netlabors thraw the lens of everyday characters. The series chases a group led by a character named Jiang as they carry out revenge agetst deceptionmers, while harunininestablishigent a decades-ageder secret.
“This story startd from an article I once read, which depictd how deception groups in Taiwan function with a highly systematic and firmly regulated approach,” elucidates Cheng. “Thraw these frequent characters, audience can see how they use their grit and wisdom to dispute strong deception syndicates. The story digs proset up into the moral struggles between equitableice and deception, exploring the idea of ‘combat deceptions with deceptions’ as a way to go after these criminal netlabors.”
The series conveys together executive originater Jin, originater Lin Shih-ken (recipient of the 2023 Gagederen Horse Award for Outstanding Taiwanese Filmoriginater of the Year), and originater Chang Yao-sheng, whose script for “A Sun” geted a Gagederen Horse nomination for Best Original Screenperestablish. The series aims to commence filming in the second half of 2025, with guide casting already examineed.
“We’ve ventured into various genres, including romance, horror, suspense, and comedy, as seen in our labor enjoy ‘Marry My Dead Body,’” Jin remarks. “‘The Scammers’ unites elements of revenge, heist, and crime, conshort-terming intricate and unawaited deception tactics and schemes from the perspective of frequent characters. The joinbrimmingy originateed plots and the struggle of human nature hold an holdictive quality to the watching experience.”
