★ Winner of the Lion of the Future Luigi De Laurentiis award for a Debut Film at the 80th Venice International Film Festival

★ Nominated for the Best New Director award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards

★ The first film directed, written, and performed by Lee Hong-Chi (starring in “Thanatos, Drunk”)

Released from prison recently, Sweet Potato wants to restart his life but encounters obstacles and makes no progress. He can only run an unprofitable small business by the sea in the summer. Besides, people and things in his past haunt him like ghosts: a trouble-making fellow gang member, a lingering ex-lover, his debt-ridden mother, the classmate No. 7 who mysteriously appears, and the "boss" he has never met. They are like invisible hands pulling him back to the bottomless whirlpool of the past. Humid and oppressive sea breeze blows. How can Sweet Potato, who longs for a new start, get rid of the past? Until the moment, when a gunfire suddenly breaks by the gloomy coast: is this the end or the beginning?

"Love Is a Gun" is the first feature film directed, written, and performed by the brilliant actor Lee Hong-Chi (Golden Horse award-winning actor with “Thanatos, Drunk”). For this film, he won the Lion of the Future Luigi De Laurentiis award for a Debut Film at the 80th Venice International Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Best New Director award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards. He depicts the impetuous social ambience in the post-pandemic era with a powerful cinematic vocabulary and a unique aesthetics of framing, composing an elegy of melancholy for young people at a point of no return.