Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee Kang-sheng (“Days,” “Goodbye, Dragon Inn”) are attached to “Twisted Strings”, a TV anthology series backed by HBO Asia and streamer Catchplay.The seven-part series is written and directed by Golden Horse-nominated director, Huang Xi (“Missing Johnny”). Hou is attached as the series executive producer. Lee, who has appeared exclusively in films over the past 30 years, notably those of famed Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang, stars.
Grigory Mikhailovich Yushkov, who was killed in the passage yard, was considered dead during the Great Patriotic War. In those same years, under strange circumstances, the partisan detachment and the entire city underground were destroyed. They were betrayed by a man nicknamed "Centaur", who was never found. What are the motives for the murder of Yushkov and is he a “Centaur”? An investigator from Moscow will have to find out...
An omnibus work that captures the strange and eerie real-life horror that happens while webtoon writer Ji Woo reports on the abandoned apartment Gwanglim Mansion.
A typical haunted house story turns into so much more when two friends come face-to-face with an entity known as Gorr'Rylaehotep and the mysterious cult that worships it.
Getting from Junior High School to High School could be a whole different world. This short, simple nine-episode miniseries is about the transition, witnessed from the eyes of three new high schoolers.
After a fire on an abandoned farm near a small provincial town, several female bodies are found buried. All the women have been killed in the past two years, their hands are tied behind their backs with fishing line and their mouths are filled with sand. One of the victims is the wife of a local influential businessman, Eduard Kalashnikov, who disappeared five years ago. His daughter Alina, who came to see her father and introduce him to her fiancé Denis, gets entangled in a web of fears and suspicions. For the first time in her life, Alina herself makes a serious decision: she remains in the city and tries to figure out what is happening, despite the danger, risking her life and love. She will have to grow up, understand how cruel this world is, and make a choice between the two most dear people.