Foolish Bride, Naive Bridegroom
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Address
Origin
Taiwan
Original name
San ba xin niáng zhuàng zi xù
Movie genre
Entry
CZK 120
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Length
101 min
Director
Hsin Chi
Release
1967
Takes place during
Rating
58 %
Cast
Chin Mei, Shi Jung, Chin Tu
Bun-tik is a handsome but not too bright young man who is chased by all the girls in the neighborhood. His father closely guards his chastity, but he sneaks off with his girlfriend, Kui-ki, who is determined that they should get married. However, they run into new opposition when Bun-tik’s father meets Kui-ki’s mother and they discover they were lovers 30 years before. Xin Qi’s lively gender-reversal comedy stands with the younger generation. A swinging sixties farce, it pokes fun at the Confucian moral conventions that were the bedrock of melodramatic angst just a few years earlier. – Chris Berry