Goddamned Asura

Goddamned Asura
Promotional poster
Traditional Chinese該死阿修羅
Simplified Chinese该死的阿修罗
Literal meaningdamned Asura
Hanyu PinyinGāisǐ de Āxiūluó
Directed byLou Yi-an
Written by
Produced by
  • Gao Junting
  • Xu Guolun
  • Wang Xinhong
Starring
Music byHu Xusong
Production
companies
  • Content Digital Film Co., Ltd
  • SEASHORE IMAGE PRODUCTIONS CO., LTD.
Distributed by
  • Hope Marketing Entertainment
  • Content Digital Film Co., Ltd.
Release dates
  • November 2021 (2021-11) (Golden Horse Film Festival)
  • 3 November 2022 (2022-11-03) (Taiwan)
Running time
114 minutes
CountryTaiwan
LanguageMandarin Chinese

Goddamned Asura (Chinese: 該死的阿修羅) is a 2021 Taiwanese crime drama film directed by Lou Yi-an and written by Lou Yi-an and Singing Chen. The film features an ensemble cast of six actors Joseph Huang [zh], Mo Tzu-yi, Peijia Huang, Devin Pan [zh], Wong Yu-xuan [zh] and Hoa-zhe Lai. It was inspired by real life events from newspaper reports on random killings. The film is selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.[1] In November 2021, the film premiered at Taipei's Golden Horse film Festival where it was nominated for Best New Performer (Pan), Best Original Screenplay and won the Best Supporting Actress Award (Wang).

In July 2022, Goddammed Asura participated in Taipei Film Festival, among the nine nominations it won Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Wang) and Best Soundtrack (for Qin Xuzhang, Xu Jiawei, Chan Liu and Cai Jiaying). The film also participated the Judicial Film Festival[2] in November 2021, Singapore Chinese Film Festival in December 2021, Taiwan Film Festival in Australia in July 2022, Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival[3] and the Hong Kong Film Festival in August 2022. It will also participate the Paris Filmosa Festival in September 2022.

  1. ^ "《該死的阿修羅》去年抱走金馬最佳女配角 將代表台角逐第95屆奥斯卡". Mirror Media. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  2. ^ "2021 Justice x Golden Horse Film Festival". Judicial Yuan. 26 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival returns to VIFF Centre with several award-winning features and documentaries". The Georgia Straight. 28 July 2022.