Director: Wang Ding-Lin
New Year's Eve in Taiwan turns into a billion-yuan collision course when two rival crews aim for the same score in Breaking and Re-entering.
What is Breaking and Re-entering about?
Chang Bojun runs a crew that has never missed, and their latest target is a heist worth a billion yuan, timed for the noise and confusion of New Year's Eve. The plan looks airtight until another team of thieves shows up chasing the exact same prize, turning a clean job into a scramble neither side planned for. Complicating things further, Chang's ex-girlfriend gets pulled into the middle of the standoff, forcing personal history and professional discipline to collide at the worst possible moment. Director Wang Ding-Lin keeps the action moving through action-comedy set pieces, letting the rival crews outmaneuver, double-cross, and occasionally save each other as alliances shift scene to scene. Chen Bolin and Cecilia Choi lead an ensemble built for quick banter and quicker escapes, while the film balances big-money stakes with the kind of comic timing that keeps a heist story from taking itself too seriously. What starts as a straightforward score spirals into overlapping schemes, unexpected loyalties, and a finale where getting away with the money matters less than getting out in one piece.
Cast & crew
Chen Bolin plays Chang Bojun with the calm of a planner used to being the smartest person in the room, while Cecilia Choi's role as the ex-girlfriend adds tension the crew never accounted for. Kent Tsai, JC Lin, Frederick Lee, Kang-Ren Wu, Ven Kao, and McFly Wu fill out both crews, giving the rival gangs distinct personalities rather than interchangeable muscle.
Context & significance
Produced in Taiwan and released in 2024, the film sits in the action-comedy heist tradition, using a New Year's Eve setting to raise the stakes of a job that was already high-risk. It carries a 5.9 rating on IMDb, positioning it as a lighter, faster genre entry rather than a prestige thriller.
Where & how to watch
Breaking and Re-entering is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, keeping the rapid-fire dialogue and double-crosses easy to follow for Farsi-speaking audiences. This page can be read without an account, but streaming the film requires logging into K-Time, whose interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora.