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The Resurrected stars hope show can be a global hit
The Straits Times
|October 16, 2025
In the Netflix revenge drama The Resurrected, Taiwanese actress Shu Qi and Malaysian actress Lee Sinje play grieving mothers whose young daughters are kidnapped and tortured.
But after culprit Chang Shi Kai (Fu Meng-po) is executed for murder and assault, Wang Hui Jun (Shu Qi) and Zhao Jing (Lee) feel like he has not been punished sufficiently.
So they perform a ritual to bring him back from the dead for seven days, to make him suffer like their girls did.
The two stars hope that this Mandarin series, a tentpole title in streaming platform's expanding Asian TV slate, can become a global hit in the same way K-dramas such as Squid Game (2021 to 2025) have.
In a recent Zoom interview from Taoyuan, Taiwan, where the cast were doing press for The Resurrected, Shu Qi tells The Straits Times in Mandarin through an interpreter: "This is definitely our goal. We will hopefully make this series a global phenomenon, especially as everyone - our directors and the entire crew - put everything we could into making it a success."
"Maybe it cannot be as successful as Squid Game, but we do hope we can create a global phenomenon close to that," adds the 49-year-old, known for films such as the Chinese martial arts drama The Assassin (2015) and action flick The Transporter (2002).
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