(Sex) Appeal

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| name = (Sex) Appeal

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| director = Wang Wei-ming

| producer = Hsu Hsiao-ming

| writer =

| story = Wang Wei-ming

| screenplay = Quentin Kun-hua Hsu

| based_on =

| narrator =

| starring = Vivian Hsu
Alyssa Chia
Amber Kuo
Leon Dai

| music = Annie Lo

| cinematography = Mark Lee

| editing = Man Chi-ming

| studio = Kuli Film Co., Ltd
Stellar Mega Films Limited
Guangdong 21St Century Media Co., Ltd
Le Vision Pictures (Beijing) Co., Ltd
Taiwan Pictures Co., Ltd
Arong Co., Ltd

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|2014|09|12|New Taipei City Film Festival|2014|10|24|Taiwan, China}}

| runtime = 109 minutes

| country = Taiwan
China

| language = Mandarin

| budget =

| gross =

}}

(Sex) Appeal (Taiwan: {{lang|zh-TW|寒蟬效應}}, China: {{lang|zh-CN|不能说的夏天}}) is a 2014 Taiwanese-Chinese youth romance drama film directed by Wang Wei-ming. It was released in Taiwan and China on October 24, 2014.{{cite web |url= http://movie.douban.com/subject/25743833/|script-title=zh:不能说的夏天 寒蟬效應 (2014)|accessdate= October 23, 2014|work= movie.douban.com|publisher= douban.com|language= Chinese}}{{cite web |url= http://www.cbooo.cn/m/628596|script-title=zh:不能说的夏天(2014)|accessdate= October 23, 2014|work= www.cbooo.cn|language= Chinese}}

Cast

Reception

=Critical response=

On Film Business Asia, Derek Elley gave it a 7 out of 10, calling it a "notable, if over-dense, drama centred on a teacher-student "rape" [that] raises the Taiwan bar."{{cite web|url= http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/sex-appeal|title= (Sex) Appeal|author= Derek Elley|date= October 22, 2014|accessdate= October 23, 2014|work= Film Business Asia|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141023220622/http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/sex-appeal|archive-date= October 23, 2014|url-status= dead|df= mdy-all}}

=Accolades=

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! Award

! Date

! Category

! Recipients and
nominees

! Result

rowspan="3"| Golden Horse Awards

| rowspan="3"| November 22, 2014{{cite web|url= http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/black-coal-thin-ice-leads-golden-horse-race|title= Black Coal, Thin Ice leads Golden Horse race|author= Kevin Ma and Stephen Cremin|date= October 1, 2014|accessdate= October 23, 2014|work= Film Business Asia|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141011125448/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/black-coal-thin-ice-leads-golden-horse-race|archive-date= October 11, 2014|url-status= dead|df= mdy-all}}

| Best Supporting Actor

| Leon Dai

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Best Cinematography

| Mark Lee

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Best Original Film Song

| (Sex) Appeal

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References

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