The Resurrected stars hope show can be a global hit

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.

- Alison de Souza

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).