Indigenous Project

Taiwan crisis, 1990s. The undead are wreaking havoc on the shore. A paranoia-infused, zombie-filled military thriller. Smells like… soldier brains?

In Chinese folklore, the corpse-herding rituals of Xiangxi gave birth to the myth of the jiangshi, or hopping vampire. In 1985, Mr. Vampire brought the jiangshi to the big screen, making it a cultural icon. Over thirty years later, as the genre fades into memory, The Last Jiangshi (original title: China’s Last Vampire) finds the only known jiangshi still existing in the modern world—Old Li.

On a decaying Taiwanese coast, a stubborn young artist refuses to give up his grand vision, transforming a wave of absurd failures into a raw, hilarious messy truth.

In the future, people can generate any image through AI art programs. Simply by inputting keywords, one can produce intricate pictures. Impressed by the finished works of others, Jieliang entered keywords related to his current project and was pleased with the generated image. He suddenly had a spark of curiosity and entered... 'What would my death scene look like?'