The story unfolds with an allegorical inspiration from the well-known fairy tale, The Little Mermaid, in which the mermaid princess falls in love with the prince it saves from drowning, with a surprising twist of the mermaid being a young boy…
Acting
Wu Kang-ren commits to absolute madness with zero vanity.
Costume
The mermaid prosthetics are gloriously unsettling.
Director
Yang Ya-che
Wu Kang-ren
Single Pa, Chen Jian Yuan
Chu-Ping Liu
Lu, Jarrett Zhang
Alisia Liang
Queenie
Will Or Wai-Lam
Wyman Chan
Eleven Yao
Sammy
Alex Kao
Bajingan
Chloe Xiang
Neko
Alex Chou
Matt
Sheng-Wei Huang
Short-haired Boy
Evan Chen
Long-haired Boy
Liza Wai
Pumpkin Girl
Shin Ma
Pumpkin's Mother
Chia-Chen Hsieh
Psychic
Huang Shu-mei
Police Station Supervisor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yang Ya-che developed the mermaid prosthetics over two years, insisting on practical effects over CGI for the 'uncanny' texture.
The film deliberately subverts both Disney's sanitized mermaid and traditional Chinese 'human-fish' legends where transformation is usually punishment, not desire.
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