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Dumplings

Gaau ji

Hong Kong

2004

91 Min
Color
1.85:1
German, Mandarin, Cantonese
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DIR Fruit Chan

PROD Peter Chan, Eric Tsang

SCR Fruit Chan, Lilian Lee

DP Christopher Doyle

CAST Bai Ling, Miriam Yeung Chin Wah, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Pauline Lau, Mi Mi Lee, Miki Yeung

ED Fruit Chan, Chan Ki Hop, Tin Sam-Fat

MUSIC Chan Kwong Wing

Locarno (Open Doors Screenings)

Synopsis

In Hong Kong, Aunt Mei is a cook famous for her home-made rejuvenation dumplings, based on a millenarian recipe prepared with a mysterious ingredient that she brings directly from China. The former TV star Mrs. Li visits Mei aiming her dumplings to recover her youth and become attractive again to her wolf husband Mr. Li. Along the sessions, Mei tells Mrs. Li that she was a gynecologist in China with more than 30,000 abortions along ten years. When Mrs. Li requests an acceleration of the process, the opportunity comes when a fifteen years old teenager with a five months incestuous pregnancy comes with her mother and asks Mei to make an abortion. –IMDb

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Fruit Chan

Fruit Chan Gor (traditional Chinese: 陳果), born April 15, 1959 in Guangdong, China, is an independent Hong Kong screenwriter, filmmaker and producer, who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong people. He is well known for using amateur actors (such as Sam Lee in Made in Hong Kong, Wong Yau-Nam in Hollywood Hong Kong) in his films. His name became familiar to many Hong Kongers only after the success of the 1997 film Made in Hong Kong, which earned many local and international awards.

On August 22, 2007, Chan announced that he will make a film focusing on Bruce Lee’s early years, specifically, the Chinese-language film, Kowloon City, will be produced by John Woo’s producer Terence Chang. The film will be set in 1950s Hong Kong.
Chan’s credits include Durian Durian. Also, Stanley Kwan stated that he was talking with Lee’s family to make a movie about the late action movie icon. Further, in April, Chinese… read more

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febyac

7Jan13

Bai Ling's acting isn't that bad

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Zachary George Najarian-Najafi

21Aug12

A movie about a woman who attains youthful beauty by eating dumplings made from aborted fetuses. What more could one ask for?

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Algitya

23Feb12

What an atrocius Dim-Sum ^ ^

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ΞRIC B∆D TASTΞ

14Oct11

bon appetite... & i wouldn't call this a horror-movie..!

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