The Abandoned () is a 2022 Taiwanese mystery crime thriller film directed and co-written by Tseng Ying-ting.
Premise On New Year's Eve, a corpse washed up on the shore stops Wu Jie, the police officer, when she is ready to kill herself. The victim was a migrant worker without her heart and a finger. It is obviously a murder. Police get no more clues from the body. In the meantime, they get an anonymous call, which complicates the case. Wu Jie concludes that whoever abandoned the body is not the killer. Lin You-sheng is in trouble because a female dead body has been found in a factory. To avoid the police, he buries the body in the mountains by himself. In the meantime, his girlfriend, Waree, has lost touch. Wu Jie finds Lin and asks him to identify a body that turns out to be Waree's. Lin is seen as the prime suspect of the serial murders.
Cast Janine Chang as Wu Jie Ethan Juan as Lin You-sheng Chloe Xiang as Wilson Sajee Apiwong Hsueh Shih-ling as Huang Dong-qi Chen Wei-min as Sheriff
Release The film was screened in the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF)'s Competition section on October 22, 2022, followed by its Taiwanese premiere at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival on November 5.
Awards and nominations AwardsCategoryRecipientResultRef.59th Golden Horse Awards Best New Director Tseng Ying-ting Best Art Direction Yeh Tzu-wei Best Makeup & Costume Design Lore Shih and Chang Fu-chen Best Action Choreography Hung Shih-hao Best Sound Effects R.T Kao, Tsai Doit and Kenny Cheng FIPRESCI Prize The Abandoned Taipei Film Awards 2023Best Feature FilmThe AbandonedBest DirectorTseng Ying-tingBest ScreenplayYang Yi-Chien, Lin Pin-jun, Xu Shihui, Tseng Ying-tingBest ActressNing ChangBest Supporting ActorChen Wei-minBest CinematographyLiu Zhihuan, Liu ChenweiBest EditingLiao Ching-Sung, Li JunhongBest Original ScoreYang WanqianBest Art DesignYeh Tzu-weiBest DesignLore Shih, Victor ChangBest Sound Design R.T Kao, Tsai Doit and Kenny ChengBest Visual EffectsJonah West, Wang Baixin
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