Joys of Life
| Joys of Life 花样人间 |
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| Genre |
Period drama Musical Romance Comedy |
| Written by | Seah Choon Guan Lim Gim Lan Tan Ai Heng |
| Directed by |
黄光荣 (ep 1-10) 高淑怡 (ep 11-16) 谢益文 Edmund Tse (ep 17-26) 卢燕金 Loo Yin Kam (ep 27-35) |
| Starring |
Chew Chor Meng Alien Huang Rui En Chen Liping Zheng Geping Chloe Wang Kate Pang Andie Chen Huang Wenyong Lin Meijiao Zhang Yao Dong |
| Opening theme | 珍惜 by Power Station |
| Country of origin | Singapore |
| Original language(s) | Chinese |
| No. of episodes | 35 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Winnie Wong |
| Running time | approx. 42–46 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | MediaCorp Channel 8 |
| Original release | 26 June – 13 August 2012 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Yours Fatefully |
| Followed by | Don't Stop Believin' |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Joys of Life (Chinese: 花样人间; pinyin: Huāyàng Rénjiān) is a Singaporean Chinese drama which was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It made its debut on 26 June 2012, consists of 35 episodes, and will be screened on every weekday night at 9:00 pm.
The series was produced to celebrate 30 years of Chinese language drama being broadcast in Singapore. Set in post-World War II Singapore, the story line spans the decade between the end of the Japanese occupation and the HDB's clearing of squatters during the late 1950s to early 1960s. It is the first on-screen pairing of Rui En and Alien Huang.
In an old tenement house at Huaxiang Street, several families live together and play out the acts in life every day. The story revolves around six friends - Zhao Mingxing (Alien Huang), Qian Yiduo (Zhang Yaodong), Han Yongyong (Rui En) and her sister Rourou (Chloe Wang) and Sun Zibin (Andie Chen) and his sister Lianjing (Kate Pang) - and their families as they go about their lives in post-World War II Singapore.
True to his name, Zhao Mingxing "Star", dreams of becoming a star. He is raised by his father, a movie billboard artist. Zhao Dagou (Chew Chor Meng), who has lived through the horrors of the Japanese Occupation, is a master storyteller. He and the ordinary-looking Sun Zibin are old friends. Zibin, who works in the office of the TV station, has a leftist younger sister, Sun Lianjing. His mother Cai Shuxian (Pan Lingling) married Uncle Roti (San Yow), a bread seller, through an arranged marriage. Shuxian often gripes that she is a victim of a feudal marriage. Han Yongyong is the adopted daughter of Han Jianren (Huang Wenyong), a cook whose love for women and booze forces his wife Liu Daiyu (Lin Meijiao) to be the breadwinner of the family. The couple had wanted to adopt a boy after Daiyu failed to conceive, but the child was swopped. Yongyong grew up being raised as a boy. Thereafter, they gave birth to three daughters. One of them, Han Rourou, is the beauty of Huaxiang Street. She is every man's dream girl, but her heart is set on marrying a foreigner.
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