Love (2012 Chinese film)
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| Directed by | Doze Niu |
| Produced by | Jimmy Huang |
| Written by | Doze Niu Tseng Li-ting Wang Qi-nan |
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Zhao Wei Shu Qi Mark Chao Ethan Juan Eddie Peng Amber Kuo Ivy Chen Doze Niu |
| Music by | Chen Chien-chi |
| Cinematography | Mark Lee Ping Bin |
| Edited by | Tseng Li-ting |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. (Taiwan) Huayi Brothers (China) |
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150 minutes |
| Country | Taiwan China |
| Language | Mandarin Taiwanese Min Nan |
| Budget | NT$300 million |
| Box office | US$29.3 million |
| Love : Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | February 10, 2012 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Label | HIM International Music |
Love is a 2012 Taiwanese-Chinese romance film directed and co-written by Doze Niu. It stars Zhao Wei, Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Ethan Juan, Eddie Peng, Amber Kuo, Ivy Chen and Doze Niu.Love premiered in the Panorama section of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. The film features an ensemble cast, with the stories revealed to be interwoven as the plot progresses.
Love showcases the different types of relationships: family, friends, lovers, co-workers, and also those between strangers are shown to express the different types of love people have every day. Through the three sub-plots of eight interwoven characters, the ups and downs of love, what love has to offer and what love has to take, the film shows the relative situations in which love can take hold.
Yi Jia (Ivy Chen) is a simple, ordinary girl that goes along with everybody around her. She is in the Cycling Team of her university, and plays the supportive role called the domestique. Her real life is similar to that of her role on the cycling team: she has no characteristic, no special talents and is not very outstanding in general. When she is with her best friend—Xiao Min—she also assumes a supportive role, just like on the cycling team. Xiao Min (Amber Kuo) is best friends with Yi Jia, and yet is the complete opposite of Yi Jia. Xiao Min is assertive, talented, confident, has a good family background, and has everybody's attention. She also has a boyfriend, Ah Kai. Ah Kai (Eddie Peng) is interested in filming and dreams to be a successful director in the future, but his dream is often tossed around as a joke by people he knows, with the exception of Xiao Min. These three best friends complement each other, forming a strong friendship, but all this comes to a halt when Yi Jia finds herself pregnant.
Mark (Mark Chao) is a young and successful entrepreneur. He is self-indulgent, cool, modern and casual. His motif about woman is, "As long as it is worth it to conquer" and has an attitude represented with the phrase, "If you never have to do it, then you never miss it". On a trip to Beijing, Mark meets Xiao Ye. Xiao Ye (Zhao Wei) is a single mother with a seven-year-old son, Dou Dou, and is Mark's realty estate agent. Their meeting, however, did not go well, as it ended in the police office with Xiao Ye suffering a broken leg and having her son become lost along the way. Eventually, with the help of Mark, Dou Dou is found. Through this experience, and his time with the mother and son, Mark finds himself developing intimate feelings that he never had with people before.
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