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Happy Times

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Format:	DVD

Starring:	Zhao Benshan \| Dong Jie

Director:	Zhang Yimou

Screen:	Aspect Ratio 1.85:1,Aspect Ratio 16:9

Languages:	Mandarin

Subtitles:	English for the hearing impaired

No. of Disks:	1

Region:	Region 2

Release Date:	16 June 2003

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A bittersweet comedy about a man who goes looking for a wife and finds a daughter.

Zhao is an economically challenged, ageing bachelor who hasn't had much luck in love and so he enlists the help of matchmaker to find a wife. Thinking he has finally met the woman of his dreams, he leads her to believe he is wealthy and agrees to a wedding far beyond his means.

Desperate for funds, he turns to his friends and together they hatch the scheme to raise the money by refurbishing an abandoned bus they will rent out by the house - the 'Happy Times Hotel' to young couples starved for privacy. But this plan goes awry when the bus is hauled away to the dump.

Believing he is a wealthy hotelier, his fiancee persuades Zhao to hire her blind stepdaughter, Wu Ying, as a masseuse at his hotel. Creating a tangled and hilarious mess of lies in order to employ her, Zhao must create a fake hotel environment in an abandoned factory, so she believes he has a legitimate job.

Finally, he is forced to come clean, which turns out to be both a heartbreaking and hilarious life lesson for all involved.