Happy Time
Director:
Zhang Yimou
Starring:
Dong Jie, Zhao Benshan, Fu Biao, Li Xuejian, Dong Lifan, Niuben, Zhang Hongjie
Highlights:
Little people with disabilities, small humor and simple sentimental feature films
Region:
Mainland
Era :
2004
Duration:
102 minutes
Retired worker Lao Zhao (played by Zhao Benshan) fell in love with a fat woman. To his embarrassment, the fat woman asked him for 50,000 yuan as the cost of the wedding when they first met. Zhao could only grit his teeth and agreed. Studying gave him an idea to use an old bus stop behind the factory to create a space for lovers of men and women, and call it the "Happy Time Cabin".
One day, Old Zhao went to the fat woman's house and saw the blind girl (played by Dong Jie) left by the fat woman's ex-husband. The fat woman disliked her and asked Old Zhao to arrange for the blind girl to work in the "Happy Time Cottage". Unfortunately, when Zhao took the blind girl to "work", the old carriage was suspended in the air. There is no place for a blind girl in the fat woman's home, so Lao Zhao has no choice but to take the blind girl home. In order to help the blind woman regain her confidence in life, Zhao and all staff carefully continued this ridiculous but touching scam, and a group of retired colleagues pretended to be clients who came for massage...