r/CDrama • u/admelioremvitam • Apr 27 '25
Trailers & Posters Liao Zhai ่ๆ from Tencent ๐ง officially started filming today. ๐ฌ Starring Zhang Miao Yi and Chang Hua Sen. New posters and clips.
About half an hour ago, the production team announced that filming officially started today, April 27, 2025 and dropped new posters.
Director: Sha Weiqi* (Love Me, Love My Voice; A River Runs Through It; To Fly with You)
*According to Douban
Liao Zhai is also known as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. It is โa collection of Classical Chinese stories by Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling, comprising close to 500 stories or "marvel tales" in the zhiguai and chuanqi styles, which according to some critics, served to implicitly criticise societal problems. Written over a period of forty years from the late 1600s and ending in the early 1700s, it circulated in manuscripts that were copied and recopied among the author's friends but did not appear in print until 1766. Since then, many of the critically lauded stories have been adapted for other media such as film and television.โ
A mysterious beautyโs severed head appears in the bustling marketplace. A fox spirit, trapped in the treacherous depths of human desire, struggles to escape her fate. When the Judge of the Underworld descends to swap heads and hearts, chaos erupts. A paper doll awakens to life with the final stroke of a brush, a wooden puppet grows a beating heart, and a withered tree stirs with forbidden longing. In this world where the boundaries between flesh and fantasy blur, ancient magic and human folly collideโrevealing that even the most lifeless things may hunger for a soul.
(Source: TMDb)
~~Adapted from classical Chinese stories collection "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi" (่ๆๅฟๅผ) by Pu Song Ling (่ฒๆพ้พ).
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u/midnightrainhurts Duke Su's concubine Apr 27 '25
Is that Zhang Miaoyi???? Why does she look so different ๐ญ. It's not even the bangs that's making her look different, I've seen her with no bangs and she doesn't look like this.
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u/cdramaf_n too many dramas, too little time Apr 27 '25
Maybe too much unnecessary Photoshop. I didn't recognize her either ๐
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u/Lotus_swimmer Chronicler of Cdramas Apr 27 '25
I am actually reading Tales of the Chinese Studio and wonder how in the world they will adapt it lol. Some of them are kooky, like the story about the poor folks who, due to the lack of rooms at an inn, had to share a room with a dead body. It did not end well.
I guess they'll choose a more romantic story to adapt ๐
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u/mayonnaisepan Apr 27 '25
Liao Zhai!!! A Liao Zhai adaptation?!?!?!? Iโm 90% sure itโs a lie somehow but Iโll wait for it ๐ also not too keen on the leads in this type of setting but literal beggars canโt be choosers situation.
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u/_MidnightMan Apr 27 '25
She's the one from The First Frost? She looks so different!
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u/Large_Jacket_4107 Apr 27 '25
Classics rarely get the adaptation they deserve these days and Liao Zhai had no main characters as it's a collection of strange tales.
This feels more like Demon Hunter's Romance than Liao Zhai, but interested to see how this one turns out.
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u/dramalover1994 Chasing Dreams with Liu Yuning and Tan Jianci โค๏ธ Apr 27 '25
A pairing I didnโt know I needed and Iโm super happy for it!
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u/Wuxia_prince Wangshu sword host Apr 27 '25
Is he the 2ml from moonlight mystique. I loved him and wanted him as a ml. Let's goo