Hong Kong's hidden 1970 folk musical gem where love gets messier than the rice paddies.
A comic folk musical about two pairs of lovers and their romantic misadventures in a rural Hong Kong town.
Production
Rare Shaw Brothers departure from wuxia into full folk musical territory.
Costume
Authentic 1970s rural Hong Kong wardrobe, down to the straw hats.
Director
Lo Chen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lo Chen directed this immediately after his wuxia hit The Winged Tiger, making this whiplash-inducing career pivot even more baffling to Shaw Brothers executives.
The film's commercial failure helped kill Shaw Brothers' brief experiment with Mandarin-language folk musicals, cementing their pivot back to action and wuxia dominance through the 1970s.
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