Silk

Silk(2006)

Su Chao Pin's "Silk", a horror film set in Taiwan about an energy researcher who captures the first human ghost, will also be screened out of competition.

Silk, (literal title: Eerie Silk), by Taiwanese screenwriter and second time director Su Chao-Bin, will receive the treatment of screening at midnight during the Cannes Film Festival next month. In the horror drama, a scientist (Yosuke Eguchi), who attempts to achieve immortality through the research of the dead, finds the spirit of a 13 year old boy. His new discovery soon draws the attention of many people, including a police officer (Chang Chen), the police officer's girlfriend (Lin Chia-Hsin), and scientist's three assistants (Barbie Hsu, Chen Bo-Lin and Chang Chun-Ning). After the police officer discovers a thread of silk, things begin to get out of control. Claimed to be the most expensive film ever made in Taiwan, Silk cost about 200 million Taiwanese dollars (US$6.2 millions), a big Taiwan's CMC Movie Corporation covered much of the expense and the Taiwan government donated 13 million Taiwanese dollars (US$0.4 millions) to the project.

The cast is filled with first-class local talents and popular Japanese actor Yosuke Eguch. The crew consists many veterans from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and the US, including cinematographer Arthur Wong (Ultraviolet, Iron Monkey, Once Upon a Time in China series), production designer Yohei Taneda (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Kill Bill: Vol. 1), editor Cheung Ka-Fai (SPL, One Nite in Mongkok, God of Cookery), recent Silver Berlin Bear winner composer Peter Kam (Isabella, Perhaps Love, One Nite in Mongkok), as well as makeup effects artists Paul Katte and Nick Nicolaou (The Matrix trilogy).

Ye Chi-Tung Chen CHANG
Su Yuan Barbie HSU
Shou Ren Berlin CHEN
Hashimoto Yosuke EGUCHI
Du Jia Wei Karen LAM
Mei CHIN NING CHANG