The Tag-Along

The Tag-Along
Theatrical release poster
紅衣小女孩
Directed by	Cheng Wei-hao
Produced by	Hank Tseng
Written by	Chien Shih-keng
Starring	Hsu Wei-ning River Huang Liu Yin-shang
Music by	Rockid Lee
Cinematography	Chen Ko-chin
Edited by	Kao Ming-sheng
Production company	Greener Grass Production
Distributed by	Vie Vision Pictures
Release date	November 19, 2015 (2015-11-19) (Golden Horse Film Festival) November 27, 2015 (2015-11-27) (Taiwan)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Taiwan
Language	Mandarin
Box office	US$1.8 million[1]

The Tag-Along (紅衣小女孩) is a 2015 Taiwanese horror film directed by Cheng Wei-hao and adapted from a well-known Taiwanese urban legend, "The Little Girl in Red". The film received funding from Taiwan's Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development and stars Hsu Wei-ning, River Huang and Liu Yin-shang. The film was released in Taiwan on November 27, 2015, and was screened at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and the 2015 Golden Horse Film Festival as the closing film. It received four nominations at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards.

Plot

Property agent Wei (River Huang) lives with his grandmother (Liu Yin-shang), but one day she suddenly disappears without a reason, and yet the routines of the house still continues as usual - the laundry is done, the house is well-cleaned as usual and even Wei's breakfast remains prepared every morning. A clueless Wei then starts to search for his grandmother until he finds an uncanny video in his neighbour's camera, where a little girl in red was tagging behind his grandmother while she was hiking. Oddly enough, after Wei's grandmother finally returned, Wei went missing instead. Wei's radio DJ girlfriend, Yi-chun (Hsu Wei-ning) gradually discovers that all these mysteries might be connected to the urban legend "The Little Girl in Red" and that the worst is yet to come.

Cast

• Hsu Wei-ning as Shen Yi-chun, a radio DJ and Wei's girlfriend
• River Huang as Ho Chih-wei, a property agent who lives with his grandmother. Yi-chun's boyfriend of five years.
• Liu Yin-shang as Ho Wen Shu-fang, Wei's grandmother
• Chang Po-Chou as Uncle Kun, security officer of the apartment building
• Lin Yi-zhen, Yang Jia-yun, Chen Liang-tong and Chen Ling-fan as "The Little Girl in Red"
• Yumi Wong as Bei-bei's mother
• Mario Pu as Property agent manager, Wei's manager
• Pai Ming-hua as Aunty A-shui
• Jin Mei-an as Aunty A-li
• Basang Yawei as Captain of Search and Rescue Team

Production

Filming locations include the Fuzhoushan Park in Da'an District, Taipei.

Soundtrack

Reception

The Tag-Along premiered on a Friday and within the first weekend, earned a Taipei box office of NT$8,670,000, and a Taiwan box office of more than NT$30 million. It overtook Hollywood film The Conjuring and local film Silk's opening weekend box office gross, and also broke the ten year record of the best-selling horror film in Taiwan.^[2]

Sequel

The sequel was released on August 25, 2017. Hsu Wei-ning and River Huang reprised their roles, with Rainie Yang, Francesca Kao and Lung Shao-hua joining the cast.^[3]

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• The Tag-Along at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• The Tag-Along on IMDb
• The Tag-Along at the Mtime.com (in simplified Chinese)
• The Tag-Along at Douban (in simplified Chinese)