My Missing Valentine

Yang Hsiao-chi is a young woman who moves through life at high speed, staying a step ahead of everyone around her. Her career is going well, but her romantic life has not kept pace. Then, on the day before Valentine's Day, a handsome man asks her out. She goes to sleep looking forward to her first date with him, only to wake up and find that the holiday has somehow come and gone without her.

The film is a comedy blending fantasy, mystery and romance, written and directed by Chen Yu-hsun. It was his first feature as director, followed years later by A Foggy Tale, and he also wrote the screenplay, with Lee Lieh and Yeh Jufeng producing. Patty Pei-Yu Lee plays Yang Hsiao-chi, and Kuan-Ting Liu plays Ah Tai, with Duncan Chow, Joanne Missingham, Ayugo Huang and Mei Zhao-Lin among a credited cast of 28. The story was shot as a Taiwanese and Philippine co-production.

Released in September 2020, the film runs 119 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.1 from around 2,100 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.9 from a much smaller base of 45 votes. The two scores are reasonably close, suggesting a generally favorable response from those who have seen it, though the far larger IMDb sample carries more weight.