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PRODUCTION YEAR：2007~2008

RELEASE：2008

In Sung dynasty, a Japanese man named Yagi... couldn't take the badgering from the male black tea tribe and ridiculed that the male black tea was not the best tea in the world; causing the two tribes to challenge each other in a "tea fight." The male black tea tribe massacred the female black tea tribe and burned down the tea farm. A child escaped from the fire and turned into a fire dragon and flew away after drinking a mixture of both male and female black tea. It wasn't until then that the male black tea tribe realized that they had made a big mistake, thus begins the long journey in search of the female black tea.
In 2007, the descendant Yagi stayed away from tea after his wife died in an accident years ago which he believed is the deed of a curse by the black tea. Yagi's daughter, Mikiko couldn't take anymore of her father's dwindling behavior, so she decided to head to Taiwan to look for the legendary black tea after finding a cure for the curse in an ancient book.
There's an "underground tea market" somewhere in Taiwan that sells rare expensive tea from around the world. The owner of the market is Yang who is the heir of the ancient "male black tea tribe." Mikiko started to fall in love with Yang after being saved by him, what she didn't know is that she is slowly falling into Yang's trap. Yagi who came after Mikiko to Taiwan, met Rufa, who is the heir of the 'female black tea tribe," during his journey of finding his daughter; like Mikiko, Yagi is also falling into a trap.
Each for their own cause, Yagi, Mikiko, Yang, and Rufa are tangled up in a web of love and hate; their quest for the black tea can only take them deeper into the web...

CREW & CAST：

[ CREW ]

Executive Producers: KAZUHIKO TADASHIKI, NAOFUMI MAEDA, TAKEO HISAMATSU, CHEN HUI-LING

Co-Executive Producers: TADAATSU SHUNDO, SEIKI KASAI, CHEN CHIN-FU

Producers: YEH JUFENG, YUMIKO TAKEBE, KOUSUKE ONO, HIDEKO SAITO, NORIKO KAWAKAMI

Co-Producer: YURI NISHIMOTO

Line Producers: CHO LI, MASAYUKI MOTOMOCHI

Original Story: WANG YE-MING

Screenwriter: AKANE YAMADA

Director of Photography: CHAN CHI YING

Gaffer: CHEN KUAN-TING

Production Designer: TANG WEI-HSUAN

Art Designers: CHANG KENG-HAO, CHANG KENG-HUA

Costume Designer: YUKO SUGIYAMA

Editor: KU XIAO-YUN, TAKASHIGE KIKUI

Sound: YANG CHING-AN, TU DUU-CHIH

Music: SEAN LENNON, ZAK

Animation: STUDIO 4℃

VFX: MASAHIRO ONDA

[ CAST ]

VIC CHOU as Yang

NING CHANG as Rufa

TERUYUKI KAGAWA as Yagi

ERIKA TODA as Mikiko

ERIC TSANG as Lu Yu

CHIN SHIH-JIE as Tea Master

HUANG CHIEN-WEI as Pao

WANG CHING-KUAN as Huo

YOSHIHIKO HOSODA as Tsukihiko

[ DIRECTOR ]

WANG YE-MING

Nicknamed Birdy by his close friends; graduated from the Department of Theatre of Taipei National University of The Arts and studied under Edward Yang; he had shown great talent already as a student, and acted in Edward Yang's films: "A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY" and "A CONFUCIAN'S CONFUSION," his own brand of comedy shook the grounds of the usual acting techniques. Other than films, Wang also directed many experimental stage plays. "TEA FIGHT" is Wang's first film as both the director and scriptwriter. He hopes for a highly entertaining commercial film that will bring the audience back to the theatre.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT：

COMING SOON...

AWARDS：

*Closing film of Taipei Film Festival, 2008.