The Wonderful Wedding is a 2015 Taiwanese comedy film starring Chu Ke-liang, Ruby Lin, Li Dongxue, Kou Hsi-shun and Lin Mei-hsiu.[2] A meet-the-parents-of-fiancée comedy, it pokes fun at the cultural and linguistic differences between Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan and Beijing in northern China.[3]

The Wonderful Wedding
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Traditional Chinese大囍臨門
Simplified Chinese大喜临门
Hanyu PinyinDà Xǐ Lín Mén
Hokkien POJTōa Hí Lîm Mn̂g
Directed byHuang Chao-liang
Screenplay byLi Hui Juan
Zhou Yuan Jiao
Produced byKevin Chu
StarringChu Ke-liang
Ruby Lin
Li Dongxue
Kou Hsi-shun
Lin Mei-hsiu
Edited byChen Bo Wen
Production
companies
Hualien Media
Shine Picture Arts Co., LTD
Full Entertainment Taiwan
Huayi Brothers
Distributed byHuayi Brothers
mm2 Entertainment
Release dates
  • 18 February 2015 (2015-02-18) (Taiwan)
  • 5 March 2015 (2015-03-05) (Hong Kong)
  • 5 March 2015 (2015-03-05) (China)
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Running time
104 minutes
CountriesTaiwan
China
LanguagesMandarin
Taiwanese

Typical for a comedy starring Chu Ke-liang, it was released a day before the Chinese New Year in Taiwan.

Plot

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A protective father's unreasonable obsession with traditions nearly derails his daughter's wedding.

Cast

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Soundtrack

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Both songs were written by Chen Kuo-hua.

  • Theme song 1: "Hoa Hee Lai Cha Cha" (歡喜來恰恰; "Happy, Come Cha-Cha")[4]
  • Theme song 2: "Hao Xiang Hao Xiang Ni" (好想好想你; "Really, Really Miss You")
    • Language: Mandarin
    • Performer: 九九 Sophie Chen

Box office

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The Wonderful Wedding was the top domestic film of the Chinese New Year holidays in Taiwan, breaking the NT$100 million (US$3.15 million) mark in 5 days.[5] The Wonderful Wedding made NT$54.96 million (US$1.74 million) in Taipei after four weekends.[6]

References

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  1. ^ 《大喜临门》定档3月6日 "紫薇格格"嫁给"果郡王" XinhuaNET.com 4 February 2015
  2. ^ "The Wonderful Wedding (2015)". chinesemov. Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  3. ^ 《大喜临门》台湾将映 李东学戏中迎娶林心如 ent.163.com 23 January 2015
  4. ^ 影/郭金發、羅時豐等4位金曲歌王飆歌 "歡喜來恰恰" Ettoday. November 11, 2014.
  5. ^ Kingsman tops Taipei CNY box office. Film Business Asia. February 25, 2015.
  6. ^ Cinderella has fairytale opening across Greater China filmbiz.asia. March 17, 2015. Archived April 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
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