Red Maid the Matchmaker

Production company Taoyuan chose for its inaugural film a comedy and Fong Yimfun gets to take a break from playing longsuffering roles and showcase her talents in making us laugh She plays the spritely titled character brandishing a fresh image The film is an adaptation of the literary classic Romance of the Western Chamber in which the Prime Ministers daughter Law Yimhing under siege from rebel soldiers is rescued by a plan formulated by a poor scholar Law Kimlong with whom she is in love But her mother Poon Yat On reneges afterwards on her promise to let the rescuer marry the daughter and the clever Red Maid steps up as gobetween devising a series of sharpwitted tactics to help the lovers