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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]

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

Plot

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

Cast

• Chu Ke-liang as Li Jin Shuang
• Ruby Lin as Li Shu Fen
• Li Dongxue as Gao Fei
• Kou Hsi-shun as Gao Shou
• Lin Mei-hsiu as Qian Song Yi
• Lin Mei-chao
• Akio Chen
• Xia Yi as Zhang Jing
• Huang Hsi Tien
• Su Zhu
• Wang Tsai-hua
• Weather Girls
• JJ Lin (Cameo)
• Richie Jen (Cameo)
• Lan Cheng-lung (Cameo)

Soundtrack

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]
  • Language: Hokkien
  • Performer: Jacky Chen, Ric, Daniel Luo, Kuo Chin-fa
• 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

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

External links

• The Wonderful Wedding at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• Official Facebook (in Chinese)
• (in Chinese) Official trailer
• (in Chinese) MV of theme song 1
• (in Chinese) MV of theme song 2