The Winter Melon Tale

Filed by Annisa on 03-27-2009 under 2009, Jack Wu, Louisa So, Mimi Lo, Nancy Wu, Sunny Chan, .

English Title: The Winter Melon Tale
Chinese Title: 大冬瓜
Cantonese Title: Dai Dung Gwa
Producer: Poon Ka Tak
Cast: Liu Kai Chi, Sunny Chan, Louisa So, Rain Lau, Mimi Lo, Jack Wu, Nancy Wu, Ellesmere Choi, Natalie Wong, etc.
Length: 20 Episodes
Broadcast: March 9, 2009 to April 3, 2009
Genre: Costume, Fantasy, Comedy
Official Site: Link
Opening Theme: Big Winter Melon (大冬瓜) by Don Li and Lai Lok Yi
Opening Video: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=1C51W7MX

Synopsis

Fan Tung (Liu Kai Chi) is one of the four deities under the Stove God. He has offended the Queen Mother of the West for being ravenous and gets imprisoned for 500 years in the winter melon. By chance, Tin Tai Kwai (Sunny Chan) and his wife Chung Pik Yuk (Louisa So) free Fan Tung from constraint. Tung has crashed with Kwai’s older brother Tin Tai Fu (Liu Kai Chi) accidentally and his spirit enters Fu’s body inexplicably while losing all his instincts.

Tung starts living in Kwai’s house and getting closer to the family. Yuk finds Tung suspicious and she tries to unmask him by all means. Having failed in his attempts to return to Heaven, Tung becomes reliant on the help of six little deities who assimilated his instincts released from the melon, and since then Tung is aware of the fickleness of human nature. One day, Fu’s truant wife Ling Fung (Rain Lau) suddenly returns. She ruins everything and even causes the death of Kwai. In order to get his life back, Tung illicitly breaks into the netherworld.

Source: Astro on Demand