The Merry Wife - Li Ching (1971) - Lam Kam Road, Lam Tsuen

Next up on my Shaw's hitlist is a 1971 film, The Merry Wife, about a young girl, Zhenzhen (Li Ching) who marries a school teacher, Lin Min (Ling Yun) but then decides to go back to school to complete her studies. The couple convince the husband's headteacher to accept her at his school and it is agreed to as long as they keep it a secret. What follows are some slightly unbelievable situations where their secret is slowly but surely discovered by her classmates and fellow teachers. It's an okay film, supposedly a romantic comedy, more of a drama though, and makes up for it's rather farfetched plot by showing us some great locations around 1971 Hong Kong.

First up is a place I am very familiar with because I spent a month living here at my friend's house on my very first trip to Hong Kong back in November 1995 - yes, I will celebrate a 30 year anniversary later this year. Doesn't time fly? Hard to believe that thirty years prior to that first trip takes me all the way back to the mid-60s before this film was made...(when you get to my age at 50+ years, it's this kind of stuff you think about a lot). Anyway, this is the Lam Tsuen valley in Tai Po and Zhenzhen is riding along Lam Kam Road to go and meet her (then) fiance at the train station.