The Substitute Daddy

Chu Yuan
Wan Ziliang, Summer Wenxi, Pan Zhenwei, Mai Lingzhi
1985
Hong Kong, China
Completed
Cantonese
87 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known as替槍老豆,is aHong Kong, ChinaProducerwomen sex,At1985Released in year
。The dialogue language isCantonese,Current Douban rating6.4(For reference only)。
Summer Wenxi and Wan Ziliang star as a couple who, after many years of marriage, suddenly wish to have a child. However, it is confirmed that Wan's sperm development is not healthy. At the suggestion of a friend, they decide for Summer to undergo artificial insemination in Hawaii. Yet, Wan can't help but feel strange about it, leading to internal contradictions, psychological tension, and odd behaviors that create a lot of funny situations. Before and after Summer gives birth, Wan has many bizarre fantasies, misinterprets situations, and harbors suspicions, even doubting that Summer is having an affair with his cousin Pan Zhenwei, who works at a sperm bank in Hawaii, questioning whether the child was conceived artificially or through an affair... This comedy film is a heartwarming work by the eminent director of Gu Long-style martial arts films, Chu Yuan, written with passion by the brilliant director and two-time winner of the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Screenplay, Zhang Jianting. The handsome couple Summer Wenxi and Wan Ziliang reunite after "The Bold and Unrestrained Woman of the Tang Dynasty". The story portrays the husband's strange feelings before and after his wife's artificial insemination, featuring elements of surrealism, suspense, and bizarre fantasies, evoking imagined awkward scenarios of a man "who has no children."