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Night Market Life

2009–2025 · 2 seasons

A long-running, gentle family saga that unfolds slowly, inviting you to drift in and out of the lives of its many characters.

Genres
Drama, Family
Overview
Night Market Life is a Taiwanese-language television drama that began airing on Formosa TV in Taiwan on 22 December 2009. This is also known as the first HD drama ever broadcast on Formosa TV. It stars Chen Meifeng, Morning Chang, Peng Chia-chia, Jimmy Ni, Wang Shixian, Daisy Fong, Mike Lee and Chiang Tsu-ping among others. Very little of the show is actually set in a night market. Rather, the show is centered on several vendors at a night market whose children befriend each other and go their separate paths upon reaching adulthood. As the series' popularity grew, the story was expanded to span two generations of characters; the children of the first part are grown up in the second part, which began on 7 April 2010 and the theme song was changed to dialect version.
How it feels
Warm, earnest and melancholic. Slow-burning and fine in the background.
About
Family, coming-of-age, friendship, class
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
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How it feels

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Full breakdown
Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour4
Realism7
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

Cast

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Details

Genres
drama, family
Starring
Wang Shih-sian, Chen Meifeng, Morning Chang, Mike Lee, Daisy Fong, Amigo Chiang, Chu Xuan
Length
2 seasons, 425 episodes, 140 min each
Network
MediaCorp Channel 8
Country
Taiwan
Languages
Mandarin

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