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Eat Drink Man Woman Details

1994 Certificate PG
  • Rated:
  • 80
  • from 425 members

Trouble is brewing for old Mr. Chu, Taipei's greatest chef. He is losing his sense of taste and his patience with his three ungrateful daughters. Over the course of several, torturous Sunday family dinners, many shocking situations arise: someone gets pregnant, someone gets dumped, someone dies and someone finds true love - .. Read more

Starring Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang
Director Ang Lee
Genres World Cinema

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Eat Drink Man Woman

Trouble is brewing for old Mr. Chu, Taipei's greatest chef. He is losing his sense of taste and his patience with his three ungrateful daughters. Over the course of several, torturous Sunday family dinners, many shocking situations arise: someone gets pregnant, someone gets dumped, someone dies and someone finds true love - each one harder to swallow than the last.

Starring Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang
Director Ang Lee
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 3 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres World Cinema
Released DVD: not available
Production year: 1994
Format DVD

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  • Comedy drama about a widower and his three unmarried daughters. Mr Chu, a retired Taipei chef, would like his girls to... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008
  • 2 stars out of 4

    Gentle comedy of food and family life, reasserting primary needs over more ephemeral desires.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 17 out of 17 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Chinese Comedy at it's best!

    I first saw this movie when it came out in the State in mid-nineties. I found it very funny and entertaining. The cinematology is quite impressive and food is amazing. A good all round entertainer ....

      • Muataz Al-Barwani from Leeds, England
      • Posted 30 Jan 2007 12:29

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    Ang Lee named top director

    • 30 Jan 2006

    Hollywood's directors have named Ang Lee director of the year for Brokeback Mountain. Lee (Eat Drink Man Woman, The Wedding Banquet, Hulk) picked up the award from the Directors Guild of America (DGA), beating off George Clooney (Good Night, And Good Luck), Paul Haggis (Crash), Bennett Miller (Capote) and Steven Spielberg (Munich). Lee is now the favourite to pick up the best director Oscar as only six times since the DGA awards started in 1949 has the winner not gone on to receive the academy... Read more

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      Trouble is brewing for old Mr. Chu, Taipei's greatest chef. He is losing his sense of taste and his patience with his three ungrateful daughters. Over the course of several, torturous Sunday family dinners, many shocking situations arise: someone gets pregnant, someone gets dumped, someone dies and ...