An amnesiac sashimi chef learns he was once the star surgeon of an organ-trafficking syndicate in “Hannibal Inside,” a crime thriller series from Studio76 adapted from “The Monster Community,” a novel the producers picked up from Kadokawa Taiwan.
\n\nThe project is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei.
\n\nTwo years after a car crash erased his memory, Owen works the knife at a fishing port in Keelung, Taiwan. The only person he remembers is his girlfriend Xi-xi. When he steps in to save a stranger’s life on the street, footage of the rescue spreads online and his old associates spot him. Owen, it turns out, was the chief surgeon of Undercurrent, a syndicate that sells organs to the global rich. He was second in command only to its shadowy leader, known as The Professor.
\n\nUndercurrent assassin Jiang Xu sets out to force Owen’s memories back to the surface. Meanwhile Detective Lin, whose son needs a heart transplant, pegs Owen as the prime suspect in a string of murders in which the victims’ organs are removed. After Xi-xi is killed, Owen heads to his hometown of Songkhla, Thailand, to take revenge. There he crosses paths with local police captain…
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