Starring top talents Greg Hsu, Austin Lin, and Gingle Wang, and directed by blockbuster filmmaker Cheng Wei-Hao, Marry My Dead Body grossed NT$360 million to become the highest-grossing Mandarin-language Taiwanese film of the year. It received eight nominations at the Golden Horse Awards, including Best Narrative Feature, with both Greg Hsu and Austin Lin nominated for Best Leading Actor. The film also won Best Adapted Screenplay and was selected as Taiwan’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. In addition to inspiring the popular spin-off series GG Precinct, the film also caught the attention of Thailand, where the rights were purchased for a remake, resulting in another box office success with The Red Envelope.
The story unfolds as homophobic police officer Wu Ming-Han accidentally picks up a red envelope from the ground, only to find that the intended “match" inside is a man! Forced into a ghost marriage with another man, Ming-Han’s bad luck spirals out of control. Not only can he not shake off his ghostly husband Mao Mao, but he even manages to ruin Officer Lin Tzu-Ching’s long-running undercover drug investigation. With no other options, the ghost-fearing, homophobic Ming-Han must team up with Mao Mao across the boundaries of life and death to hunt down a murderer, setting off on an absurd, tearful, and laugh-out-loud journey.