Foolish Bride, Naïve Bridegroom

One of the Great Taiwanese Director Hsin Chi’s master pieces.

A comedy with protrayals of a brave and independent modern woman.

A besotted boyfriend (Shih Chun) and his girlfriend (Chin Mei) plan to marry with both their families’ blessings. Not until it’s time to formalize the engagement does it come to light that thirty years earlier the boy’s father and the girl’s mother were romantically linked. As new love blossoms, an old love is rekindled. This zany 1960s romantic comedy is living proof that Taiwan was turning out films every bit as hilarious as Sorry That I Fell in Love with You as far back as the 1960s!

B&W / Taiwanese / Mandarin & English Subtitles / 101 min / 1967

Sept. 16 (Wed) 6:00 PM – Sept. 18 (Fri) 6:00 PM (PDT)

Director Biography

HSIN Chi

Born in 1924, HSIN found his love for movies, literature and plays at a young age. After studying theater at Nihon University in Japan, he returned to Taiwan and became active in the theater movement. Though he temporarily left Taiwan following the February 28 Incident, he again returned as Taiwanese-language films were on the rise, during which he began to explore filmmaking. He organized actors’ workshops and became a screenwriter and director interested in experimenting with different subjects, styles and techniques. His most notable Taiwanese-language films include the baseball film Kiss Me (1963), Alias Lover (1965) based on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a disaster film, The Night of Jiayi Earthquake (1964), and Back Street Life (1965), a satirical comedy about low lives. Eight of HSIN’s Taiwanese-language films exist today and are currently preserved in Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute.