Eat Drink Man Woman

Eat Drink Man Woman

  • Director: Ang Lee
  • Writer: Ang Lee,James Schamus,Hui-Ling Wang
  • Countries of origin: Taiwan
  • Language: Mandarin, French
  • Release date: August 3, 1994
  • Sound mix: Dolby, Dolby SR
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Comer, beber, amar
  • "Eat Drink Man Woman" is a feature film directed by Ang Lee and starring Pual Lang , Jacklyn Wu , Yang Kuei-Mei and Michelle WANG . It was released in the United States on August 3, 1994.
    The film tells the story of the conflict of ideas and their respective emotions in family life between Lao Zhu, whose wife died many years ago, and his three daughters   .

    Details

    • Release date August 3, 1994
    • Filming locations Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Park, Taipei City, Taiwan
    • Production companies Ang Lee Productions, Central Motion Pictures, Good Machine

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $7,294,403

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $155,512

    Gross worldwide

    $7,294,403

    Movie reviews

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    • By Casey 2022-04-23 07:03:43

      Comment from a foodie

      "Life can't be like cooking, you have to prepare all the ingredients before you put them in the pot." "Actually, a family can live their own lives under one roof, but the kind of scruples that arise from their hearts are the lifeblood of a family. So what is home great chef.
          In the movie, whenever something important happens, it is inevitably accompanied by a table of sumptuous meals, which tells us that no matter what happens in life, no matter how bumpy or frustrated, the meal must...

    • By Eleanora 2022-04-23 07:03:43

      home, food, life


           "Book of Rites" has a cloud: "Food, men and women, people's great desires exist." Food, color, sex are also. We live in groups in this world, all glitz can fade away, but the two basic needs of diet and men and women are also eternal. People take food as their heaven. In our country, food has been a major event in life since ancient times, and the color, flavor, and fragrance are not sloppy. The dining table is also home, and food is life!

            The film opens with a scene...

    • By Hunter 2022-04-23 07:03:43

      look again

      Re-evaluate diet men and women.
      Chinese twisted affection. This family atmosphere happens more around me, my family itself is a more direct and equal environment.

      Yang Guimei and Gui Yalei acted the best.
      Just after watching Yang Guimei in "Little Reunion", she can play a coquettish stepmother and a holy believer.
      Zhao Wenxuan's young face was a mess.

      Wu Qianlian's strength and return are particularly understandable. Her experience has kept her from getting...

    • By Julio 2022-04-23 07:03:43

      Lang Xiong: I'm fine, this is home

      In 1991, when Ang Lee took his first film "Pushing Hand" after graduating from the film department of New York University to participate in the film festival, he met Wong Kar-wai's "The True Story" and Yang Dechang's "Guling Street Teenage Murder". In the future, the three debut films of the three directors representing the highest artistic level in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industry are different. Leslie Cheung in "The True Story" has no father or mother, and Zhang Zhen in "Guling Street"...

    • By Kaylie 2022-04-23 07:03:43

      When people are rough, how can they eat finely?

      The first time I saw it was in my sophomore class, and I almost dropped the Juewei duck leg on the ground. It is understood that in Taiwan in the 1990s, such a dramatic plot is also very bizarre. The story of the play is based on the Taiwanese TV series "Four Thousand Gold" at that time, and it also tells the story of a widowed father and children. James, an American, also contributed to the script, so sometimes he is stunned by the plot.
      The story is divided into four distinct lines,...

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    • By Elliot 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      Although Wanwan likes to say that Ang Lee is the light of Taiwan, this movie is completely about the life of people from other provinces. Families in the province rarely eat these...

    • By Friedrich 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      It was only in this part that Ang Lee's skill was revealed, or formed. The emotions between the two generations, life is unpredictable, flat and...

    • By Sheridan 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      I love being caught from start to...

    • By Reginald 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      In the end, my father said that I had tasted it, and the tears naturally fell, but the most rebellious person kept the...

    • By Coby 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      The trivialities of life often do not defeat the true taste of life. The family dancing on the tip of the tongue and the taste buds also returns the best things to time. Ang Lee has accumulated a lot of life feelings to shoot such a movie that is stained with the noise of the years. Every frame exudes the strong fragrance of food, which lasts for a long time. Humor and wisdom flash from time to time in the film, and the ending is even more unexpected. Maybe the acting skills are lacking today,...

    Movie plot

    Lao Zhu ( Pual Lang ) is the last remaining chef of Chinese cuisine in Taiwan. Now he retires and lives in an old house with his three daughters. He spends a lot of time every day to make extremely rich dishes. The eldest daughter Jiazhen ( played by Yang Kuei-Mei ) is an old maiden teacher in a middle school. She is conservative and believes in Christian doctrines and hymns; the second daughter Jiaqian ( played by Jacklyn Wu ) has a...
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    Overall

    "Eat Drink Man Woman" is full of the gentle and elegant temperament of Chinese traditional culture. Although mediocre but very realistic, it brings Chinese cooking art into the drama of family and emotion. The Chinese-style feast, the warm atmosphere of family reunion, and the ubiquitous strong traditional atmosphere in the film make the audience feel that this is a traditional Chinese-style movie. The conflict between the younger...
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    Movie quotes

    • Jia-Jen: [after an errant volleyball interrupts a boring lecture] Who will return the ball?

      Class: I'll go!

      Jia-Jen: Very well, then I'll do it.

    • Chu: Men die for money, birds die for food. It's not worth dying for food for a man.

    • Chu: Life should not be like cooking: you need to wait until all ingredients are prepared.