‘A Dance With Rainbows’ Director Lee Yi-shan Developing Supernatural Thriller ‘Ghostbusters Club’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Written by admin on February 14, 2026
Following the breakout success of her debut feature, “A Dance With Rainbows,” director Lee Yi-shan is developing supernatural crime thriller “Ghostbusters Club” (working title), Taiwan’s Flash Forward Entertainment revealed at Berlin’s European Film Market.
The announcement comes as Flash Forward hosts the market premiere of “A Dance With Rainbows” at EFM. The coming-of-age boxing drama opened to strong box office results in Taiwan in January and stars Golden Horse best new performer nominee Lin Yi-ting alongside veterans Tsai Chen-nan and You An-shun. Golden Scene acquired Hong Kong rights to the film.
The project represents a significant stylistic departure for Lee, who won the Golden Horse Award for best action choreography with her gritty boxing drama. The new film combines elements of Taiwanese folk religion with a police procedural format.
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“Ghostbusters Club” centers on Shu-Miao, a spirit calmer who operates a vegetarian noodle shop while performing exorcisms; she’s guided by a statue of Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, whose voice only she can hear. The narrative pairs her with Sister Ying, a detective investigating a series of infant corpse cases where bodies are discovered sealed in luxury apartment walls.
The antagonist, a drug lord known as “Screw,” employs Thai dark arts to conceal structural defects in construction projects, creating what Flash Forward describes as both a social commentary on corruption and a mystical thriller.
“The ritual of ‘spirit calming’ sits in the liminal space between faith and daily reality in Taiwan,” Lee said. “It defies rational explanation, making it the perfect challenge for cinematic storytelling.”
Flash Forward founder Patrick Mao Huang added: “This is not just a ghost story. Lee Yi-shan has a unique ability to ground the supernatural in the emotional reality of her characters. ‘Ghostbusters Club’ explores justice — both human and divine — through the lens of two powerful women from completely different worlds forced to collaborate.”
Flash Forward’s EFM slate also includes Japan-Taiwan-Poland co-production “Good Death,” currently in production with a cast featuring Yo Yang, Chen Shu-fang and Eliza Rycembel; “Lotus Feet,” the second feature from Cannes Grand Prix winner Amanda Nell Eu, which was selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market; and animated sci-fi anthology “Bliss: Beyond the Edge of Time,” which brings together six directors for a genre-spanning exploration of time, technology and alternate realities.
