Joys of Life (2012)

Original title

花样人间

Genre

drama

Country

Singapore

Length

1 season, 35 episodes

How it feels

This series follows multiple characters in post-World War II Singapore, spanning the late 1950s to early 1960s. It shows their lives as squatters are cleared for new housing developments.

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What happens

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 stars Chew Chor Meng, Alien Huang, Rui En, Chen Liping, Zheng Geping, Chloe Wang, Kate Pang, Andie Chen, Huang Wenyong, Lin Meijiao and Zhang Yao Dong as the cast of the series. 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, and Huang's first Singaporean drama. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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