Taiwan The Wedding Banquet returned 6.9× its production cost, earning $6.9M against a $1.0M budget — one of the highest-return Taiwan films in our catalog.
Synopsis
喜宴
“A little deception at the reception.”
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
Audience Engagement
206 audience reviews — more than 97% of Taiwan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 93th percentile among Taiwan films.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 49m runtime, production spent $9K per minute on screen and earned $64K per minute back.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Wedding Banquet. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Comedy + Drama in Taiwan
29 Taiwan titles in our catalog blend the Comedy and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Wedding Banquet itself).
Other Titles From Ang Lee Productions
The 1990s Taiwan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in Taiwan, 16 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Wedding Banquet premiered alongside 1 others.
Position in Catalog
The 33rd Taiwan title from Taiwan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1972).
Our Taiwan catalog contains 174 titles in total (149 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Wedding Banquet, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- coming out · 5
- chinese restaurant · 2
- wedding night · 1
- marriage of convenience · 1
- man pretending to be straight · 1
- secret relationship · 1
- wedding · 24
- new york city · 23
- male homosexuality · 18
- taiwan · 14
- secret love · 8
- interracial relationship · 7
- family · 74
- gay theme · 67
- husband wife relationship · 46
- parent child relationship · 46
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #48 of 174 Taiwan films indexed here (72nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.5 points above the Taiwan average of 6.6/10.
Among Taiwan Comedy productions specifically: #13 of 50 (top 26%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Taiwan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Taiwan, United States of America |
| Original Language | Chinese |
| Spoken Languages | English, Mandarin |
| Production Companies | Ang Lee Productions, Good Machine |
| Runtime | 1h 49m |
| Release Date | March 1, 1993 |
| IMDb | tt0107156 |