Yimou Zhang – Xingfu Shiguang aka Happy Times (2000)

Synopsis: A man stretching the truth for his own sake soon begins doing the same for someone else, with increasingly complicated results, in this gentle comedy from China. Zhao (Zhao Benshan) is a guy in his early fifties who’s out of work but still wants to marry his girlfriend (Dong Lifan). However, his often cranky sweetheart thinks he runs a hotel, and Zhao is trying to keep the illusion alive with the help of his pal Li (Li Xuejian) by turning an abandoned bus into a “love hotel” for couples who lack privacy in their homes. But business isn’t all that good, since the old-fashioned Zhao asks unmarried couples to keep their doors open to ensure nothing untoward happens. As Zhao tries to convince his girlfriend to walk down the aisle with him — and struggles to raise the money she demands first — she introduces him to Wu Jing (Dong Jie), the blind teenage stepdaughter she inherited from her marriage to her now-deceased first husband.The woman insists that Zhao give Wu Jing a job in his hotel; since the bus/hotel has been towed away, this isn’t a practical possibility. Zhao and Li put Wu Jing through a fake job interview to keep up appearances, and when she breaks down in tears talking about her deadbeat father, he decides he has to do something for her. Zhao moves Wu Jing into his home, and with the help of his friends, sets up a phony massage therapy center where Wu Jing works with the “clients” — actually Zhao’s friends, most of whom are also unemployed. But the bigger and more complex the illusion becomes, the harder it is to maintain, though Zhao feels compelled to do so for the sake of the girl’s feelings. -Mark Deming (AMG)

Happy Times 2000 NTSC DVD DD5.1 x264 SDvB.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 42mn
Size:	1.61 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Not met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	708x468 ~> 832x468
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	1 703 Kbps
Audio
Chinese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/9A123468B805448/Happy_Times_2000_NTSC_DVD_DD5.1_x264_SDvB.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English