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Love Studio

2016 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ23044940
Source-derived summary

Love Studio (Chinese: 同城邂逅) is a 2016 Chinese romance comedy film directed by Cheng Zhonghao and Wang Kai. It was released in China by Shanghai Kaiyi Entertainment on 11 March 2016.

Plot

Yun Fan ( by Jiang Chao), who has had a lot of relationship experience, and a few friends who are also very good at love and have a lot of relationship experience set up a love agency that specializes in helping single customers with their relationship problems. Their main job description is to provide help to men and women who can't fall in love and don't know how to pursue love. They help customers to change their image, tell them how to communicate with their beloved and create a good atmosphere when they confess their love, etc. They also help customers to change their image, tell them how to communicate with their beloved and create a good atmosphere when they confess their love. In addition, they help single customers enter the “love base camp” by customizing solutions based on their knowledge of the person they are pursuing.

In the process of advising customers on love, Yunfan met a customer who could significantly influence the development of the company. He discovers that the girl the client is pursuing is his ex-girlfriend Wang Yan (Cica Zhou), whom he has never been able to forget.

Cast

Jiang Chao

Cica Zhou

Li Meng

Yu Menglong

Mandy Lee

Zhang Lei

Qi Em

Hei Ge

Reception

The film has grossed CN¥1 million at the Chinese box office.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Love Studio” as 2016 film. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Love, Studio and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2016 film. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23044940. The first chronological checks are 2016.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Love Studio”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Love Studio primary sources, Love Studio archive and Love research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Love Studio”?
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This entry incorporates text from Love Studio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.