Long Live the Missus!

Long Live the Missus!

Taitai Wansui
🎞️ Movie 112 min CH
โ˜… 7.1 /10 1947

Long Live the Wife, a lively and well-acted comedy, is celebrated fiction writer Eileen Chang's second script. Following immediately from Love without End (1947), it proved to be another financially successful collaboration with director Sang Hu for Wenhua Film Studio. The film is centred on the figure of Chen Sizhen (Jiang Tianliu) whose marriage to Tang Zhiyuan (Zhang Fa), an ambitious bank clerk and a typical Shanghai xiao shi min (petty urbanite), is dull. Their relationship is unromantic and she fails to bear him a son. Nonetheless she tries to be a good housewife. Their universe spins into turmoil when Tang starts an affair with a glamorous woman, Zhu Mimi (Shangguan Yunzhu), who cares for nothing but his money. A crisis ensues. Long Live the Wife reveals the impending collapse of patriarchal authority and women's attempts at extricating themselves from this social predicament. Chang's screenplay also radically underlines the ambiguity of moral choices.

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

Tianliu Jiang
Tianliu Jiang
Chen Sizhen
Fa Zhang
Fa Zhang
Tang Zhiyuan
๐Ÿ‘ค
Zhen Lin
Chen's Mother
Fei Han
Fei Han
Chen Sirui
Yi Wang
Yi Wang
Tang Zhiqin
Hui Shi
Hui Shi
Chen's Father
Yunzhu Shangguan
Yunzhu Shangguan
Shi Mimi
Shan Lu
Shan Lu
Mother-in-Law
๐Ÿ‘ค
Wei Cao
Deputy Manager Xue
Zhi Cheng
Zhi Cheng
Shi Guang
๐Ÿ‘ค
Zhengfan Zhang
Composer
๐Ÿ‘ค
Weiqing Ge
Cinematographer
Shaofen Huang
Shaofen Huang
Cinematographer
Qi Xu
Qi Xu
Cinematographer