Director: Giddens Ko
A blow-dry gone spectacularly wrong turns into an unlikely career boost in Miss Shampoo, Giddens Ko's 2023 comedy-crime hybrid out of Taiwan.
What is Miss Shampoo about?
An apprentice at a modest hair salon finds herself in the wrong place at exactly the right time when she inadvertently saves the life of a gangster who has just been shot. Word spreads, curiosity follows, and suddenly her chair is booked solid with an entirely new kind of clientele — one that comes with debts, rivalries, and favors owed. What starts as good luck for her struggling shop spirals into something much messier as she gets pulled deeper into the underworld connections of the man she rescued. Vivian Sung leads as the apprentice navigating this sudden shift in fortune, with Kai Ko and Hong Yu Hong filling out a cast that keeps the tone bouncing between romantic comedy and crime caper without settling too heavily into either.
Cast & crew
Vivian Sung carries the film as the salon apprentice thrust into gangland chaos, playing opposite Kai Ko and Hong Yu Hong. Director Giddens Ko, known for blending youthful comedy with sharper genre elements, rounds out the ensemble with Tsai Chang-Hsien, Wei-min Ying, and Bai Jing Yi in supporting roles that keep the crime-world side of the story grounded.
Context & significance
Released in 2023, Miss Shampoo comes from Taiwanese filmmaker Giddens Ko, whose work often mixes lighthearted romance with more chaotic, crime-adjacent plotting. At two hours and one minute, the film has room to build out both the salon-world comedy and the gangster subplot, letting the two threads collide gradually rather than all at once.
Where & how to watch
Miss Shampoo streams on K-Time with a free account login, and this page can be read without signing in first. The title includes a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers the option to watch fully dubbed or follow the original dialogue with subtitles, part of K-Time's push to bring East Asian comedies and dramas to the Persian-speaking diaspora.