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The One

2017 · 116 min

A silly, fast-moving farce where oddball characters chase the same prize and collide in escalating comic chaos.

Directed by
Lu Zhengyu
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Lu Zhengyu, Amber Kuo Tsai-chieh, Fan Wei
Overview
Funny scramble of an esoteric book of cooking between a guy without feeling, a tough girl, a master out of date, a dark-minded rich man, a emotion-manipulating woman and a OCD-suffering samurai.

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Directed by
Lu Zhengyu
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Lu Zhengyu, Amber Kuo Tsai-chieh, Fan Wei
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Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • identity
  • greed
  • madness
  • love
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour8
Realism5
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Lu Zhengyu, Amber Kuo Tsai-chieh, Fan Wei, Joan Chen, Cai Guoqing, Kong Lianshun, Isabelle Huang, Yasuaki Kurata
Runtime
116 min
Country
China
Languages
Japanese, Mandarin

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