Netflix acquires Taiwan thriller Green Door
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 18 March 2019

Netflix has boosted its Mandarin language content for global subscribers with the acquisition of Taiwanese drama Green Door.

Staring Melody Awards winner Jam Hsiao, the six-part horror series made its debut last month on Taiwan’s Public Television Service.

Adapted from Joseph Chen’s novel of the same name, Green Door is directed by Lingo Hsieh, known for her fantasy-horror movie The Bride, which she co-created with Japanese master of thriller Takashige Ichise.

Green Door tells the story of Sung-Yen Wei (played by Jam Hsiao), a troubled psychologist who returns from the US to set up his own practice in Taiwan, where mysterious patients and uncanny events shed light on his murky past.

The series co-stars Ying-Hsuan Hsieh, Golden Horse Best Actress for her role in Dear Ex, and Wei-Hua Lan, 2018 Golden Bell Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film. The cast is joined by promising young actresses Haden Kuo from Tiny Times and Ruby Zhan from The Tag-Along 2.

It is the latest of a growing number of Netflix’ Mandarin acquisitions, after it picked up the global rights to Chinese sci-fi movie The Wandering Earth, teen drama Animal World, romance Us and Them and Taiwanese hit Dear Ex. The US streaming giant has also acquired the Chinese remake of psychological thriller Chosen by entertainment platform iQIYI, from the Sony Pictures Television original.

Although prevented from streaming in mainland China, Netflix is available in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and by the Chinese diaspora around the world.