Taiwanese

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About this archive
Taiwan brought queer themed film and television into the mainstream earlier than most of the region, with a feature film tradition that reached international festivals well before BL existed as a marketing category, and it became the first place in Asia to recognise same sex marriage, in 2019. That history shows in the output, which tends to treat the material as general drama rather than as a separate genre.
Production runs through television channels, film companies and streaming services, with a number of series made specifically for platform distribution and licensed internationally. Adaptation from Taiwanese novels is common, though original screenplays are more usual here than in some neighbouring industries, and the feature film route remains an active option rather than a rarity.
Performers typically work across film, television, theatre and music without specialising, and agencies represent them for all of it. Many have long careers in mainstream drama before or after a BL or GL role, and the crossover with the Mandarin language music industry is substantial. For a reader, this means a Taiwanese profile on this site will often list only one or two genre credits inside a much larger body of work.

TAIWANESE ACROSS THE SITE

There are 51 profiles filed under Taiwanese.

47 of them are credited on at least one title record on this site, and 2 on more than one, 49 credits in total.

Those credits divide into 20 leading roles, 17 supporting roles and 12 credits behind the camera.

The roles they are filed under are most often Actor (36), Singer (9) and Producer (7).

The records that draw on them most are Connecting to You (13), Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars (10) and Fragrance of the First Flower (6).

Every figure above is counted from this site’s own records and changes as records are added.

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