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The Mad King of Taipei

Xichéng tónghuà (2017)

Drama | Taiwan
Director: Tien-Lun Yeh

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Rating: 4.1/10

SYNOPSIS

In Taipei, there is a place called: XIMEN. There, tons of people come to visit, but most of them forget to see and feel the craziness, the loneliness, the love, and the color within that area. Tigger, a smart-but-lonely girl, whose mother is away, comes to XIMEN to start her own business. She quickly comes to the realization that there are 3 unique things in Ximending: movie, money, and madness. One day, she meets the maddest of them all: a homeless man called: XimenKing, aka, the mad king of Taipei town. He is so mad because: A.he likes to give out money that no one knows where they come from B.he never stays inside of a building, and he even sleeps in a tent at night C.rumor has it that he used to have a family, but the 921 earthquake back in 1999 turned his world upside down - Day in and day out, Tigger and XimenKing get to know each other, and Tigger starts to find out those crazy stories about him. Will those stories teach Tigger and her mother a lesson about life and family? ...

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