The Tag-Along: The Devil Fish

The Tag-Along: The Devil Fish
The Tag-Along: The Devil Fish
	Film poster
Chinese	人面魚: 紅衣小女孩外傳
Hanyu Pinyin	rén mìan yú: hóng yī xǐao nǔhái wàizhùan
Directed by	David Chuang
Starring	Vivian Hsu; Cheng Jen-shuo
Edited by	Shieh Meng-ju
Production; companies	Ambassador Theatres; CMC Entertainment Holding Corporation; Damou Entertainment; HIM International Music; Lots Home Entertainment; Once Upon A Story Company; Showtime International; Sky Films Entertainment
Distributed by	Vie Vision Pictures (Taiwan); ABS-CBN Film Productions (Philippines); Access-A (Japan) ; China Lion Film Distribution (Canada/USA); Clover Films (Singapore); Golden Screen Cinemas (Malaysia); Golden Village Pictures (Singapore) ; BayView Entertainment (USA)
Release dates	12 November 2018 (55th Golden Horse Awards); 23 November 2018 (Taiwan);
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Taiwan
Languages	Mandarin; Taiwanese
Box office	NT$73,070,000

fThe Tag-Along: The Devil Fish (Mandarin: 人面魚: 紅衣小女孩外傳) is a 2018 Taiwanese horror film directed by David Chuang. It is a prequel to The Tag-Along (2015) and The Tag-Along 2 (2017). The film stars Vivian Hsu, Cheng Jen-shuo. The film had its world premiere at the 55th Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards.^[3]^[4]^[5] It was released on 3 2November 2018.^[6]

Plot

The movie is based on another famous Taiwanese urban legend, a ghost story that involved three men catching and grilling a fish in central Taiwan only to notice a face appear as they began to eat it. They then heard a voice ask them, in Taiwanese, 「魚肉好吃嗎？」 ("Is the fish meat tasty?").

The story of 人面魚 (fish with a person's face) is a well known folktale in Taiwan. Tales of a fish-like creature with a human face, similar in a way to Japanese yokai, has existed in Taiwan for decades. The film introduces the same folktale of the three men catching the fish and hearing the famous sentence at the start, then the plot then follows the efforts of a group of people, involving a temple priest, a young boy and the boy's mother as they are harassed by malicious spirits brought on by the caught fish.

After completing the Tag Along story, the creators of the film wanted to make a movie about another Taiwanese folk tale, choosing the Devil Fish, potentially starting a series in which they could cover more Taiwanese urban legends in the future. The film is also set before the events of 紅衣小女孩2 (The Tag Along 2), including the young son of the Tiger Temple priest and his grandfather who both appear in The Tag Along 2 working at the Tiger Temple, with the son being the boyfriend of a missing girl in the story.

The plot of prequel explores Lin Chun-Kai past and the origin of the demon that possessed Mei-Hua's daughter that made her the girl in red in the first place. It is turned out that the demon is born from the vengeful spirit of a disfigured son of a wealthy man, Mr Chung. Mr Chong's son was born with a rare skin disease that gives him the skin that looked like the scale of a fish. Mr Chung heavily abuses his son due to his disfigurement and accumulating in him, killing his son. His son's vengeful spirit is then harnessed by a malevolent demon to wreak havoc on the people. Lin Chun-Kai's father, a master shaman successfully fights off the demon with the help of the Tiger Lord's spirit but at the cost of his life. In the end, Lin Chun-Kai is adopted by grandfather who is also the master shaman and trains him to be his father's successor, leading to the event of Tag-Along 2.

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Cast

Main-starring

Vivian Hsu as Huang Ya-Hui
Cheng Jen-shuo as Lin Chi-Cheng
Wu Zhi-xuan as Chia-Hao (Juvenile)
Joe Chang as Chung
Francesca Kao as Lin Mei-Hua
Lung Shao-hua as Aron
Tsai Wu-hsiung as Hung Wen-Hsiung
Wu Hung-hsiu as Hei-Gou
Kuan Ming-tso as Fatty
Chen Shao-Hui as Lin Chun-Kai
Belle Hsin as Mei Ling
Chou Ming-yu as Chia-Hao's father
Hsu Li-Yun as old grandma
Wang Hsin-Jue as Ah-Di
Mitsue Kagota as Chia-Hao's Father's girlfriend

Guest-starring

References

^ "全國票房2018年1210-1216統計資訊.pdf" (PDF). .com.
^ "全國電影票房2019年03/18-03/24統計資訊" (PDF). 國家電影中心. 28 March 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2019.
^ 周毓洵 (9 October 2018). "《人面魚紅衣小女孩外傳》、《夢的背後》金馬影展世界首映" (in Traditional Chinese). 青年日報. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
^ 黃保慧 (9 October 2018). "徐若瑄產後新片世界首映！台灣時間出爐" (in Traditional Chinese). 聯合報. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
^ 徐桐炘 (9 October 2018). "《人面魚》世界首映獻金馬徐若瑄、鄭人碩預告現身會場" (in Traditional Chinese). 中國時報. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
^ "《人面魚紅衣小女孩外傳》，魚肉好吃嗎？". Movie Money. 23 November 2018.
^ 豆瓣. "人面鱼：红衣小女孩外传 (豆瓣)". .com.
^ "The Tag-Along: Devil Fish - Taiwan, 2018 - HORRORPEDIA". HORRORPEDIA. 19 September 2018.
^ 人面鱼. "Movie Details - The Devil Fish 人面鱼 - Golden Village".

External links

The Tag-Along: The Devil Fish at IMDb
The Tag-Along: The Devil Fish at Douban (in Chinese)

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[1] "全國票房2018年1210-1216統計資訊.pdf" (PDF). .com.

[2] "全國電影票房2019年03/18-03/24統計資訊" (PDF). 國家電影中心. 28 March 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2019.

[3] 周毓洵 (9 October 2018). "《人面魚紅衣小女孩外傳》、《夢的背後》金馬影展世界首映" (in Traditional Chinese). 青年日報. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.

[4] 黃保慧 (9 October 2018). "徐若瑄產後新片世界首映！台灣時間出爐" (in Traditional Chinese). 聯合報. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.

[5] 徐桐炘 (9 October 2018). "《人面魚》世界首映獻金馬徐若瑄、鄭人碩預告現身會場" (in Traditional Chinese). 中國時報. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.

[6] "《人面魚紅衣小女孩外傳》，魚肉好吃嗎？". Movie Money. 23 November 2018.

[7] 豆瓣. "人面鱼：红衣小女孩外传 (豆瓣)". .com.

[8] "The Tag-Along: Devil Fish - Taiwan, 2018 - HORRORPEDIA". HORRORPEDIA. 19 September 2018.

[9] 人面鱼. "Movie Details - The Devil Fish 人面鱼 - Golden Village".

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