Café. Waiting. Love
{{Infobox film
| name = Café. Waiting. Love
| image = Cafe Waiting Love poster.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| director = Chiang Chin-lin
| screenplay = Giddens Ko
| based_on = {{based on|Café. Waiting. Love|Giddens Ko}}
| producer = Angie Chai
Giddens Ko
| starring = Vivian Sung
Bruce Hung
Megan Lai
Marcus Chang
Pauline Lan
Lee Luo
Vivian Chow
| cinematography = Yang Fong-ming
| editing = Ian Lin
| music = Chris Hou
| studio = K4s Motion Studio
VieVision Pictures
Amazing Film Studio
Star Ritz Productions
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2014|8|15}}
| runtime = 120 minutes
| country = Taiwan
| language = Mandarin
| budget =
| gross = NT$37.1 million (Taipei)
HK$9.3 million (Hong Kong)
}}
Café. Waiting. Love ({{zh|t=等一個人咖啡|p=Děng yīgè rén kāfēi|l=Waiting For Someone, Coffee}}) is a 2014 Taiwanese romantic comedy film directed by Chiang Chin-lin, adapted from Giddens Ko's novel of the same name.{{cite web|url= http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/the-four-finale-tops-china-box-office|title= The Four finale tops China box office|author= Kevin Ma|date= August 26, 2014|accessdate= August 26, 2014|work= Film Business Asia|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140826214311/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/the-four-finale-tops-china-box-office|archivedate= August 26, 2014}} The film marks the first on-screen appearance of Vivian Sung, Bruce Hung, and Marcus Chang.
Plot
Si-ying (Vivian Sung) is a university freshman who works part-time at a café. There, she met A Bu-si (Megan Lai), a professional coffee maker who can make any type of coffee according to a customer's order, the shop's proprietress (Vivian Chow) who is often quiet and alone, seated at a corner of her café most of the time, as well as Ze-Yu (Marcus Chang).
One day, Senior A-Tuo (Bruce Hung), a senior of Si-ying's who's moderately legendary in the university, came to the café with his friends where he met a lesbian who stole his girlfriend - A bu-si, by coincidence. As the friends kept teasing A-Tuo, Si-ying, full of helping and justice heart, helped A-Tuo out of the difficult situation. The two of them eventually became friends after several encounters. Senior A-Tuo is an optimistic person with a happy-go-lucky personality. Besides working part-time at a roadside stall, he also works for Bao Ge (Lee Luo), who was a movie director and now a mediator for gangs, as a cook at his restaurant. There, he got to know Aunt Jin-dao, Bao's wife, (Pauline Lan), and learned to cook a noodle dish from her. After Bao and his wife fell out due to a petty argument, she started up her own dry-cleaning shop which was where Si-ying first met with Aunt Jin-Dao.
Started out as acquaintances, Si-ying and A-Tuo become good friends with each other after hanging out for some time. A-Tuo started having feelings for Si-ying, but Si-ying only treated him as a friend whom she can confess any thinking in her heart openly, as she likes Ze-Yu. Later, Senior A-Tuo went backpacking overseas. It was during this period that Si-Ying realised that A-Tuo is the one whom she has been waiting for all along...
Cast
- Vivian Sung as Si-ying
- Bruce Hung as Senior A-Tuo
- Megan Lai as A Bu-si
- Vivian Chow as Proprietress
- Katie Chen as young proprietress
- Marcus Chang as Ze-yu
- Hong Yan Xiang as young Ze-yu
- Lee Luo as Bao
- Pauline Lan as Aunt Jin-dao
- Yuri Gao as A-zu
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- Emerson Tsai as Liao Ying-hung
- Lin Mei-hsiu as Café patron
- Ma Nien-hsien as customer
- Michelle Chen as customer
Reception
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|3974790}}
{{Giddens Ko}}
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Category:2014 romantic comedy films