Chinese name: 《喜宴》
Released year: 1993
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Winston Chao，Ya-lei Kuei, Sihung Lung, May Chin
Director: Ang Lee
Writers: Ang Lee, Neil Peng
The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 film about gay characters. The film is directed by Ang Lee and stars Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah Lei Gua, Sihung Lung, and Mitchell Lichtenstein.
Gao Wai Tung (played by Winston Chao) is a successful Taiwanese gay and lives happily together with his boyfriend Simon (played by Mitchell Lichtenstein) in the United States. His trouble is that his parents, who lived in Taiwan, ask him to get married to a nice Chinese girl. Fearing their reaction, Wai Tung has never told them about his sexual orientation.
In order to satisfy them, he requests a Wei Wei (played by May Chin), a young artist who’s only it for the green card, to have a bogus marriage in the U.S. However, his parents decides to show up to plan a massive wedding banquet in the U.S. After the banquet, a terminally drunk Wai Tung realizes that Wei Wei is having sex with him. With Wei Wei now pregnant, and Wai-tung’s parents stay weeks longer than initially planned, the relationship between Wai Tung and Simon becomes strained. Wai Tung’s father (played by Sihung Lung) eventually figures out his son’s homosexuality, and begins to accept Simon as Wai Tung’s real spouse. And finally Wei Wei decides to keep the baby and to raise it together with both men.
