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When Hong Kong travel agent Acacia (Sammi Cheng) learns of her estranged father, Ha Leung’s (Kenny Bee) sudden death, she has no choice but to make the trip to Chongqing to arrange his funeral and settle his affairs. Soon after her arrival, Acacia gets the surprise of a lifetime when she learns that she is not her father’s only child. Having harbored deep resentment towards the woman who took her father away from her, Acacia is more than a little conflicted, now that she’s come face to face with not one, but two grown sisters.&nbsp;

A professional pool player who grew up in Taiwan, the androgynous Branch (Megan Lai), has spent her entire life incessantly hounded by her status-conscious mother. Disappointed in her daughter’s choices, both personally and professionally, Branch’s relationship with her mother is nothing short of toxic. Cherry (Li Xiao Feng), on the other hand, is a digital fashionista from China who was raised by her adoring grandmother. Brought together by their father’s death, the three sisters connect through their grief and together begin the arduous task of settling their father’s affairs.

Leaving behind a hot pot restaurant and a mountain of debt, the sisters agree that keeping their father’s restaurant open is the best way to satisfy his creditors. Running the restaurant together, the sisters slowly begin to open up to each other. Sharing their respective dreams and the struggles they face as they deal with the ever-mounting pressures of work, family, and relationships, the sisters begin to bond, not just as friends, but as family.&nbsp;

Adapted from the novel, “My Spicy Love” by Amy Cheung, “Fagara” is a 2019 family drama film directed by Heiward Mak.

Fagara

Sisters💖United Team

Chu Sang Woo (Park Jae Chan), a principled and punctual computer science junior, finds himself stuck with a group project. When his lazy teammates leave him to do all the work, he presents it under his name only, sparking chaos. Enter Jang Jae Young (Park Seo Ham), a stylish and popular senior whose dreams of studying abroad are now in jeopardy. Determined to get revenge, Jae Young discovers that he and Sang Woo are complete opposites. But as they are forced to collaborate, sparks fly, and an unexpected attraction blossoms. Will their differences tear them apart or bring them closer together? This 2022 BL movie is an adaptation of the 2022 South Korean drama of the same name, directed by Kim Soo Jung.

Semantic Error: The Movie

The Wacko & Psycho Team

What could be more natural than four handsome men running a bakery?

Kim Jin Hyuk (Joo Ji Hoon) is a wealthy young man who has everything going for him. With money, good looks and an irresistible charm, the only thing that Jin Hyuk lacks is a special woman to share his life with. He decides to open up a bakery, called Antique, with the idea that it would be a gathering place for young, single women.

Jin Hyuk hires Min Sun Woo (Kim Jae Wook), a talented pastry chef who used to have a crush on Jin Hyuk in high school. Yang Ki Bum (Yoo Ah In) is a former boxing champion who becomes a pastry apprentice, and Soo Young (Choi Ji Ho) is Jin Hyuk’s bumbling bodyguard.

As the four men try to run a bakery together, each of their pasts catches up with them at Antique.

“Antique” is a 2008 South Korean film directed by Min Kyu Dong. It is based on the manga “Antique Bakery” by Fumi Yoshinaga.

Antique

Nau Van (Lanh Thanh) and his long-term boyfriend Ian (Vo Dien Gia Huy) live in America. They decide to travel back to their native Vietnam on the anniversary of Nau Van’s father’s death on a special mission: They will come out about their sexuality and tell them about the nature of their relationship.

But that proves to be easier said than done. Nau Van is the first-born grandson of the family, and is expected to continue the family line. He initially introduces Ian as a “friend,” and the family quickly moves on to its favorite topic – trying to pressure Nau Van into a heterosexual marriage. Matters are complicated when a female cousin starts to take a shine to Ian, and Nau Van’s elderly grandmother, whose mind has begun to fail her, starts to insist that Ian is her grandson. Ian, meanwhile, is keen for Nau Van to come clean about their real reason for coming to Vietnam.

Will Nau Van and Ian be able to tell the family about their love? And will they ever find true acceptance in their eyes?

“Goodbye Mother” is a 2019 Vietnamese movie that was directed by Trinh Dinh Le Minh.

Goodbye Mother

✨ The Marvellous ✨ Team 

Despite her amazing voice, Kang Hanna (Kim Ah Joong) has never been able to make her dreams of becoming a pop star come true, as she is too overweight to survive in the image-obsessed celebrity world. Instead, she secretly provides the voice for Ammy (Ji Seo Yun), who – despite her beauty – has no musical talent whatsoever. Hanna has a crush on Sang Jun (Joo Jin Mo), Ammy’s producer, but never considered confessing her feelings to him. However, Ammy has noticed the way Hanna looks at Sang Jun, and decides to make Hanna the butt of a joke at Sang Jun’s birthday party in a fit of jealousy. Devastated, Hanna decides to undergo extensive cosmetic surgery, returning under the stage name Jenny after a year of recovery. But will this physical transformation really bring Hanna happiness – and love? This award-winning 2006 South Korean movie, based on the hit manga “Kanna’s Big Success” by Yumiko Suzuki, was directed by Kim Yong Hwa.

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