Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Natural High follows Shen Teng, Bai Jingting, Gina Jin, and Jia Bing as they trade city life for natural landscapes and local cultures across countries. The "Zero Frame Group" format keeps things spontaneous — there's no script, just games, simple living, and genuine curiosity about unfamiliar places. If that unhurried, unguarded energy appeals to you, you'll likely connect with stories where slowing down is itself the point, and where discovery matters more than drama.
Natural High is a Chinese outdoor reality show started in 2023. The shows regular members are Shen Teng, Bai Jingting, Gina Jin and Jia Bing. The show highlights natural landscapes and culture to promote tourism, as celebrities travel across countries, play games, and experience a simple lifestyle in a 'Zero Frame Group' format that prioritizes spontaneity. Each episode is released in two parts, broadcast over successive days. The show's success led to subsequent seasons.
From the Wikipedia article Natural_High_(TV_series), available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Rising High
Three corrupt real estate agents accumulate absurd wealth fast, then spiral into fraud, greed, and drugs.
Film
Sky High
Young petty criminals navigate Spanish society's collapse after the real estate crash.
Film
Sky High
A serial killer removes the hearts of victims who turn out to be anything but random targets.
Film
Born Wild
A man digs into his twin brother's shadowy past, uncovering a dangerous underground boxing world.
Film
The Wild
A former boxer tries to build a quiet honest life after prison, pulled back by loyalty and circumstance.
Film
Gorgeous
A girl from a small Taiwanese fishing town travels to Hong Kong chasing a message found in a bottle.
Game
High on Life
Absurdist humour and an alien-invasion premise deliver a wildly energetic escape from the mundane.
Game
中国式家长 / Chinese Parents
A life-sim rooted in Chinese family culture captures the quiet pressures of growing up.
Game
Eureka Seven Vol. 2: The New Vision
A disillusioned athlete is pulled out of aimlessness when someone from his past reappears needing help.
Book
Crazy Rich Asians
A New Yorker visits her boyfriend's wealthy Singapore family and finds far more than she bargained for.
Book
フルーツバスケット 20
Trust and family bonds are tested when a mysterious figure from Kyo's past suddenly reappears.
Book
The High 5 Habit
A self-help book about turning inward and cheering for yourself instead of always for others.
Series
Extreme Forest
A slow, immersive one-month journey through Taiwan's nature, exploring how humans and the wild coexist.
Series
The Miracles
Ordinary people in Shenzhen find meaning and dignity in everyday work and human connection.
Series
American Born Chinese
A teenager navigates colliding worlds — immigrant family life and high school social pressure — simultaneously.
Series
Back to Field
Celebrities stripped of city comforts live simply in rural China, season by season, across the country.
Series
Wild Rose
Two women on opposite sides of a war test the bonds of loyalty and ideology under pressure.
Series
Sunny Mood
Friends escape the grind together for a brief, breezy reprieve from everyday stress.
Back to Field is the most direct match — it puts celebrities in rural China with only basic necessities, season after season. Extreme Forest takes a slower, more ecological angle across a one-month immersive journey through Taiwan.
Sunny Mood captures the same friend-group escape energy, while Back to Field strips things back further, documenting simple living away from city centres across different parts of China each season.
The show uses a "Zero Frame Group" format that puts spontaneity first — the cast plays games, absorbs local culture, and lives simply without a fixed script, which gives it an unguarded, genuine quality not found in more produced travel formats.