Director: George Huang
Old flames rarely stay buried, and in Weekend in Taipei they resurface at the worst possible moment, dragging a former DEA agent back into a world he thought he'd left behind.
What is Weekend in Taipei about?
Years after a case that should have ended cleanly, a former DEA agent runs into the woman who once worked undercover alongside him, and their reunion in Taipei is anything but simple nostalgia. What begins as two people revisiting a shared past quickly tangles with unfinished business neither of them fully walked away from. The city becomes a pressure cooker: old contacts resurface, favors come due, and the line between romance and danger blurs fast. Rather than a straightforward thriller plot, the film leans on the tension of history catching up with people who assumed they'd outrun it, building toward a weekend that neither character controls.
Cast & crew
Luke Evans anchors the film opposite Gwei Lun-mei, with Sung Kang and newcomer Wyatt Yang rounding out a cast that also includes Pernell Walker, Zach Ireland, Patrick Lee, and Virginia Chien. Director George Huang splits the film's energy between the two leads' charged history and the street-level action that erupts around them in Taipei.
Context & significance
A France-Taiwan co-production released in 2024, Weekend in Taipei uses its setting as more than backdrop, folding the city's night markets and traffic-choked streets into its chase sequences. Running 100 minutes, it moves at a brisk pace typical of the action-thriller genre. Its IMDb rating of 5.7 places it among mid-tier genre entries — serviceable action with a romantic core rather than a critical standout.
Where & how to watch
Weekend in Taipei streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles available, giving viewers a choice of how they want to watch. Reading this page requires no account, but streaming the film does call for logging into K-Time, a platform built around a Farsi-friendly experience for Persian-speaking viewers everywhere.