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Cute Girl
DVD cover

Chinese	就是溜溜的她
Literal meaning	She sure is slick

Hanyu Pinyin	jiùshì liūliū de tā


Directed by	Hou Hsiao-hsien
Written by	Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring	Kenny Bee Anthony Chan Fong Fei Fei
Cinematography	Chen Kunhou
Music by	Mou Shan Huang
Release date	1980 (1980)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Taiwan
Language	Mandarin

Cute Girl, also known as Lovable You^[1] (Chinese: 就是溜溜的她), is a 1980 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by director Hou Hsiao-hsien, starring Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan and Fong Fei-fei. It was Hou Hsiao-hsien's first feature film.^[2]

Plot

Wenwen, the daughter of a rich Taipei business tycoon, is set up with the son of another illustrious family for potential marriage. She flees for several days to her aunt's house in a mountain village prior to facing her potential husband. There she falls in love with Daigang, an infrastructure engineer conducting a road survey in the village. When Wewen is calld back to Taipei by her father the lovers are split, but Daigang is not so easily defeated nor is he exactly who he seems.

Cast

Kenny Be as Daigang
Fong Fei-fei as Wenwen

Reception

A retrospective review explains: "As author Philip Kemp rightfully points out in his essay on the filmmaker's early works, concepts such as the contrast between rural and urban Taiwan or traditional family values, represented by Wenwen's parents, are present throughout Cute Girl, even though they are more in the background it seems. At the same time, the combination of pop songs and the often corny scenes between the protagonists, especially the first concept is often on the verge of being romanticized."^[3]