Café. Waiting. Love

Café. Waiting. Love
Directed by	Chiang Chin-lin
Screenplay by	Giddens Ko
Based on	Café. Waiting. Love by Giddens Ko
Produced by	Angie Chai Giddens Ko
Starring	Vivian Sung Bruce Hung Megan Lai Marcus Chang Pauline Lan Lee Luo Vivian Chow
Cinematography	Yang Fong-ming
Edited by	Ian Lin
Music by	Chris Hou
Production companies	K4s Motion Studio VieVision Pictures Amazing Film Studio Star Ritz Productions
Release date	August 15, 2014 (2014-08-15)
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: Děng yīgè rén kāfēi; lit. 'Waiting For Someone', 'Coffee') is a 2014 Taiwanese romantic comedy film directed by Chiang Chin-lin, adapted from Giddens Ko's novel of the same name.^[1] The film marks the first on-screen appearance of Vivian Sung.

Plot

Si-ying (Vivian Sung) is a university freshman who works part-time at a café. There, 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 moderately 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

Cameo

• Emerson Tsai as Liao Ying-hung
• Lin Mei-hsiu as Café patron
• Ma Nien-hsien as customer
• Michelle Chen as customer

Reception

It has grossed NT$37.1 million in Taipei and HK$9.3 million in Hong Kong.^[1]

References

1. Kevin Ma (August 26, 2014). "The Four finale tops China box office". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved August 26, 2014.

External links

• Café. Waiting. Love at IMDb