When Love Comes (2010)
"Dang Ai Lai De Shi Hou" (original title)

Laichun, her father and two mothers, uncle and grandfather are of different generations; thus they all think differently. Father is the family head, and because he believes he must continue... See full summary »

Director:

Tso-chi Chang

Writers:

Tso-chi Chang (screenplay), Hsieh Hui-Ching

Stars:

Yijie Li, Mengjie Gao, Xuefeng Lu

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Cast

Credited cast:
Yijie Li	...	Laichun
Mengjie Gao	...	Jie
Xuefeng Lu	...	Xuefeng (as Xue-feng Lyu)
Yushun Lin	...	Dark Face / Daddy (as Dark Face)
Zihua He	...	Zihua (as Mengting He)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Wing Fan	...	Mortician
Meng-jie Gao	...	A Jie
Pinyi Li	...	Lairi
Xiumin Qiu	...	Mou's mother (as Xiu-min Qiu)
Chieh-de Tsai	...	Mr. Chen (as Jiede Tsai)
Yi-che Tseng	...	Yizhe (as Yizhe Tseng)
Ho Tzu-hua	...	Zu-hua
Renqing Wei	...	Grandpa
Kangren Wu	...	Mou Zongfu
Lee Yi-Chieh	...	Laichun

Storyline

Laichun, her father and two mothers, uncle and grandfather are of different generations; thus they all think differently. Father is the family head, and because he believes he must continue on the family name ends up taking two wives. His first wife also feels the same way, and so allows the second wife. Laichun feels the abyss between her and her parents and ends up getting pregnant, but hits a wall when her boyfriend does not take any responsibility. When her father is hospitalized, she begins to understand her father and two mothers. She is finally growing up.

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Blog

Country:

Taiwan

Language:

Chinese Min Nan Mandarin

Release Date:

29 October 2010 (Taiwan)

Also Known As:

When Love Comes

Company Credits

Production Co:

Chang Tso-chi Film Studio

Technical Specs

Runtime:

107 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

life... a series of very emotional events

When Love Comes is one of the more popular Taiwanese movies that came out in 2010. The plot deals with teenage pregnancy, conflicts between cultures and generation gaps, and changes within oneself etc.

When Love Comes is a very straightforward film, yet the messages underneath were actually very complex and very profound. The film confronted traditional and conservative Taiwanese values that clashes with the emerging foreign Western culture; in the meantime the generation gap that causes so many conflicts, and how the traditional Taiwanese culture expressing the idea of "love" that is so subtle and so clandestine.

Very realistic dialogs here, when I was watching this I could picture my family members and friends speaking like them; I chuckled and teared up at times. Very emotional and very real; the lives of a Taiwanese family.