The Tenants Downstairs
| The Tenants Downstairs | |
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Hong Kong film poster
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| Traditional | 樓下的房客 |
| Simplified | 楼下的房客 |
| Mandarin | Lóu Xià De Fáng Kè |
| Cantonese | Lau4 Haa6 Dik1 Fong4 Haak3 |
| Directed by | Adam Tsuei |
| Produced by | Angie Chai Liao Chin-feng |
| Written by | Giddens Ko |
| Based on |
The Tenants Downstairs by Giddens Ko |
| Starring |
Simon Yam Lee Kang-sheng Kaiser Chuang Ivy Shao Sophia Li Yu An-shun Hou Yan-xi Bernard Angel Ho |
| Music by | Chris Hou Ivan Linn |
| Cinematography | Jimmy Yu |
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Production
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Amazing Film Studio
Star Ritz International Entertainment Edko Films CMC Entertainment Vie Vision Pictures Mm2 Entertainment |
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Running time
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120 minutes |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Language | Mandarin |
| Budget | NT$150 million |
The Tenants Downstairs is a 2016 Taiwanese black comedy-fantasy-mystery-drama film based on Taiwanese writer Giddens Ko's novel of the same name. The film is written by Ko and also presented, produced and directed by Adam Tsuei and stars Simon Yam, Lee Kang-sheng, Kaiser Chuang, Ivy Shao and Sophia Li Filming for The Tenants Downstairs began in October 2015 and ended in November 2015 and was released on 12 August 2016.
A police interrogator questions a man inside an interrogation room. The man claims he inherited a building with studio apartments from a distant relative, so he became the landlord of the building, renting the apartments out to tenants. The Landlord's penthouse apartment is equipped with screens that allow the Landlord to see inside each apartment, which all have hidden cameras. His tenants include divorcee Mr. Wang Ming-kai and his fourth-grade daughter; Ms. Chen Min-hui, an office worker who uses her body for financial gain and advantages in the workplace; Mr. Chang Kuo-sheng, a physical education teacher who enjoys peeping on his neighbors and is infatuated with Ms. Chen; Bo-yan, a geeky college student obsessed with the idea of having superpowers; and a gay couple, Kuo Li and Ling Hu. The Landlord also claims that a mysterious woman named Ying-ru lives in the apartment directly under his penthouse; however, the police interrogator states that there is no record of anyone named Ying-ru having lived there.
The Landlord spies on his tenants closely, and figures out everyone's routine. However, he finds that Ying-ru has no discernible routine. He lets himself into Ying-ru's apartment to investigate while she is out, but Ying-ru returns unexpectedly, with a man. The Landlord hides, and watches as Ying-ru drugs the man with poisoned tea, then ties him up in the bathtub. However, the Landlord does not alert the authorities, and over the course of several days, Ying-ru tortures the man to death. A few days later, Ying-ru drags a bound woman back to her apartment in a suitcase, and also tortures her to death in her bathtub. The Landlord confronts Ying-ru, who says that she cannot accept a life without change or possibility. Therefore, she is determined to avoid a mundane life, and will shatter whatever boundaries are in her way. The Landlord takes her words to heart, and decides to shatter his tenants' routine lives.
The Landlord tricks Bo-yan into thinking he has teleportation powers, manipulates Kuo Li and Ling Hu into believing the other is being unfaithful, allows Mr. Chang to break into Ms. Chen's room and have sex with her, and adds an aphrodisiac to Mr. Wang's mosquito coil to give him lustful feelings towards his daughter. The Landlord's antics eventually result in the deaths of Mr. Wang and Ling Hu.
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