We Are Born Good: Nine Golden Horse Nominations and a November 20 Taiwan Release

Hong Kong film We Are Born Good has nine nominations at the 63rd Golden Horse Awards and is scheduled to open in Taiwan on November 20, 2026. Written and directed by Yeung Leung-chuen, it stars Yeung Wai-lun, Chung Suet-ying and Pang Sau-har. A misdelivered takeaway meal sets off an escalating conflict between a tea restaurant owner and a working woman. For readers interested in Hong Kong cinema and urban stories, the black comedy begins with an everyday incident and gradually opens onto the pressures of survival.

How does a takeaway meal start the story?

Yeung Wai-lun plays tea restaurant owner Wing-kat, while Chung Suet-ying plays Yeuk-lui. Neither yields in a dispute over a meal, retaliation grows, and private difficulties begin to emerge. The interest is not that the food itself is exceptional, but how an apparently solvable incident gains weight through the characters’ emotions and circumstances.

Three questions can guide a viewing: could the conflict have been stopped at the beginning, who drives each escalation, and why is neither person willing to step back first? Following accumulated choices makes the comedy more than a sequence of exaggerated scenes, allowing small but hard-to-process frustrations of city life to come into view.

Which creative fields do the nine nominations cover?

The official list confirms nominations for Narrative Feature, Leading Actor, Leading Actress, Supporting Actress, New Director, Original Screenplay, Makeup and Costume Design, Original Film Song and Film Editing. Yeung Wai-lun, Chung Suet-ying and Pang Sau-har are nominated in the three acting categories, while Yeung Leung-chuen competes for New Director with his first narrative feature.

The categories suggest another viewing list: how actors respond to one another, how the screenplay arranges conflict, and how editing controls pauses and escalation. Costume and song also show that a black comedy’s world is not built through dialogue alone. What people wear and when sound enters can affect the distance between the city and its characters.

Know the premise while leaving room for a first cinema viewing

Chung Suet-ying previously won the Golden Horse lead actress award for The Way We Talk and is nominated again. Yeung Wai-lun and Pang Sau-har bring different performance backgrounds to the same story. Previous awards and current nominations cannot replace an audience’s own response. Readers avoiding spoilers can begin with the relationships and genre, leaving the extent of the conflict to unfold in the cinema.

As of October 21, the film has nine nominations, not nine wins. November 20 is the scheduled Taiwan theatrical release, with local screenings to be confirmed by cinemas and the distributor. The Golden Horse nominations can be checked against the festival’s official list. For readers following new Chinese-language directors, the shortlist offers a way to discover a work beyond the eventual awards result.