Miniseries · LINE TV
Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Jed Chung
He Xiang-yong / Zhong Xiao-you
12 eps
Chu Meng-hsuan
Chen Hao-wei
12 eps
JN Yu
Li Wan-zhe
12 eps
Kota Kagami
Aomi Hamaguchi / Xiao Hai
12 eps
Max Kuo
Teenage Chen Hao-wei
12 eps
Chen Yan-syu
Teenage He Xiang-yong
12 eps
Darren Chiu
Uncle Hua
12 eps
Lee Lee-zen
Old He
12 eps
Tsao Lan
Angela
12 eps
Andy Wu
Brother Hong
7 eps
Aiko Fang
Xi-xi
4 eps
Sam Lin
Publishing House President
1 eps
Simon Lien
David
1 eps
Po Yen-hua
Bai Mei-lin
1 eps
Snoopy Yu
Celestial Officer
1 eps
Chiang Jui-chih
Brother Zhong
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
After wishing to disappear, a man wakes with a new identity, only to face a painful choice when his secret crush starts to recognize him.
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Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Chiang Jui-chihDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- Rakuten VikiStreaming
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