The Abandoned (Chinese: 查無此心) is a 2022 Taiwanese crime film directed and co-written by Tseng Ying-ting.
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Traditional | 查無此心 |
Simplified | 查无此心 |
Mandarin | Chá wú cǐ xīn |
Literally | "No trace of the heart" |
Directed by | Tseng Ying-ting |
Written by | Tseng Ying-ting Yang Yi-chien Lin Pin-jun |
Produced by | David Tang Janine Chang |
Starring | Janine Chang Ethan Juan |
Production company | Renaissance Films et.al |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
Country | Taiwan |
Languages | Mandarin Thai |
On New Year's Eve, a female corpse washed up on the shore stops Wu Jie, the police officer, when she is ready to kill herself. What looks like an accident is proved to be a dead migrant worker without her heart and a finger. It is obviously a murder. However, they can't get any more clues from the dead body. In the meantime, the police get an anonymous call, which complicates the case. Wu Jie concludes that whoever abandoned the body isn't the killer. Lin You-sheng is in trouble because a female dead body has been found in a factory. To avoid the police, he buries the body in the mountains by himself. In the meantime, his girlfriend, Waree, has lost touch. Wu Jie finds Lin and asks him to identify a body that turns out to be Waree. Lin is seen as the prime suspect of the serial murders.
— LEAFF[1]
The film will be screened in the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF)'s Competition section on October 22, 2022,[3] followed by a scheduled general release in December 2022.[4]
Awards | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
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59th Golden Horse Awards | Best New Director | Tseng Ying-ting | Pending | [5] |
Best Art Direction | Yeh Tzu-wei | Pending | ||
Best Makeup & Costume Design | Lore Shih and Chang Fu-chen | Pending | ||
Best Action Choreography | Hung Shih-hao | Pending | ||
Best Sound Effects | R.T Kao, Tsai Doit and Kenny Cheng | Pending | ||