''Missing Johnny'' () is a 2017 Taiwanese

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

written and directed by

Huang Xi Huang Xi (; born 1976) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. She made her directorial debut with ''Missing Johnny'' (2017), for which she won Best Screenplay in the Taipei Film Awards, 19th Taipei Film Awards. In 2024, she won Golden Horse Award for Best Or ...

. The film stars

Lawrence Ko Lawrence Ko (; born 28 April 1977) is a Taiwanese actor. Ko made his film debut when he was four years old. He has had roles in the Edward Yang films ''A Brighter Summer Day'' (1991), ''Mahjong'' (1996) and ''Yi Yi'' (2000), as well as the fi ...

, Rima Zeidan and

Sean Huang Sean Huang (; born 19 June 1991) is a Taiwanese actor. The son of actor Michael Huang, Sean Huang made his film debut in 2010. He won the Golden Bell Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film in 2011. Selected filmography * ''Days W ...

. ''Missing Johnny'' is Huang's debut feature. It is executive produced by

Hou Hsiao-hsien Hou Hsiao-hsien ( zh, t=侯孝賢, poj=Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema mo ...

Premise

Hsu, a young woman who raises parrots and other feathered creatures in her apartment, keeps getting wrong phone calls for someone named Johnny. Lee, the autistic son of Hsu's landlady, seems to live in his own world. Chang is a shy handyman who feels disoriented whenever his beloved car breaks down. The lives of these three lonely individuals are drawn together when one of Hsu's parrots goes missing one day.

Cast

as Chang Yi-feng * Rima Zeidan as Hsu Zi-qi *

as Lee Li * Chang Kuo-chu as Chi-yuan * Kay Huang as Mrs. Lee * Duan Chun-hao as Hao * Tang Zhi-ping as Zhi-wei * Hsueh Ti-ying as Hsueh * Pao Chen-fang *

Jack Kao Jack Kao (, born 23 April 1958) is a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese actor. Career He began his career in the late 1980s films of Hou Hsiao-hsien. Kao credits his success to the many real-life gangsters he knew when he was young. He appeared in '' ...

Awards and nominations

References

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*{{IMDb title, 7010456 2017 films Taiwanese drama films 2017 drama films 2017 directorial debut films 2010s Mandarin-language films Films scored by Lim Giong