National Premiere, World Focus: Taiwan Cinema Renaissance 2026, 1961
Good Neighbors (Restoration)
Good Neighbors良き隣人たち レストア版兩相好
Director Lee Hsing
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The Chen family, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, move from China to Taiwan and open a clinic beside the Ng family's Western-medicine practice. Polite but distant, the two households clash over language, medicine, and manners—until romance complicates everything. As the Chen sons fall for the Ng daughter and the family's child bride, misunderstandings multiply before three couples finally receive their families' blessing. An early film by Lee Hsing, it mixes postwar cultural friction, multilingual humour, and the warm comic touch that would later define his work.
Born in Shanghai in 1930, Lee Hsing moved to Taiwan in 1948 and became a leading figure in Taiwan Cinema. After early Taiyupian films, he helped shape Healthy Realism with works including Oyster Girl（1964）, Beautiful Duckling(1965) and Execution in Autumn(1972). Over a 70-year career, he directed 52 features and won three Golden Horse Awards for Best Director. He died in 2021.
From Tokyo International Film Festival 2026, No. 39
