Eat Drink Man Woman

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If you can sit through Ang Lee's 1994 romantic dramedy without ordering out for pot stickers, you're either a paragon of self-restraint or you've got the stomach flu. Master chef Chu has lost his wife, and with her, his sense of taste – but still he cooks, because in his world food is love, food is communication, food is life itself. The only thing more vivid than Chu's delectable cavalcade of dishes are his three daughters, each searching for romance in their daily lives and sorting out the mess at Sunday dinner. For the Mexican-American version, see 2001's adaptation Tortilla Soup.
Comedy / 124 mins

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  1. Based on the name, you can be forgiven for thinking the film "Eat Drink Man Woman" is a porno. However, the title really refers to the idea that romantic love is as vital to life as eating and drinking.
  2. The film "Eat Drink Man Woman" features the artistry of Chinese cooking as a way in which Taiwanese family members, who have difficulty doing otherwise, express their love for each other. In America, those feeling unloved often find solace in food from Chinese take-out.
  3. The 2001 film "Tortilla Soup" was a remake of "Eat Drink Man Woman." The remake was set in California. Instead of Chinese food, the family makes scrumptious Mexican cuisine.
  4. Director Ang Lee took more than a week to film the opening sequence of the Sunday lunch being prepared. Many family Sunday lunches may feel like that they last a week.
  5. "Eat Drink Man Woman" was the first film Ang Lee made in his homeland, Taiwan. Ang Lee's previous films were shot in New York City. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
  6. Director Ang Lee is a recycler. He used many of the cast members who had starred in his previous film, "The Wedding Banquet" in "Eat Drink Man Woman."
  7. One of the themes of "Eat Drink Man Woman" is the loss of love. The character Chef Chu is depicted as having lost his wife, his sense of taste, and all his three daughters to marriage. Getting old stinks!
  8. Yin and Yang is a Chinese philosophical concept of mutually dependent opposites. According to one film reviewer, the film "Eat Drink Man Woman" mirrors this philosophy. Another called it a screwball comedy with catfights in the kitchen. Ying and Yang.
  9. Director Ang Lee said that his film "Eat Drink Man Woman" was about the "things children need to hear most are often the things that parents find hardest to say and vice versa." He was not talking about borrowing the car.
  10. "Eat Drink Man Woman" is not about cannibalism.

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Sihung Lung
Yu-Wen Wang
Chien-lien Wu
Kuei-Mei Yang
Sylvia Chang
Winston Chao
Chao-jung Chen
Lester Chit-man Chan
Yu Chen
Ah Lei Gua
Gin-Ming Hsu
Huel-Yi Lin
Shih-Jay Lin
Chin-Cheng Lu
Yu-Chien Tang
Chung Ting
Chu
Jia-Ning
Jia-Chien
Jia-Jen
Jin-Rong
Li Kai
Guo Lun
Raymond
Rachel
Madame Liang
Class leader
Coach Chai
Chief's Son
Ming-Dao
Shan-Shan
Priest

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Ang Lee
Ang Lee
James Schamus
Hui-Ling Wang
Fend-Chyt Jiang
Kong Hsu
Ki-Kong Hsu
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