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Dumplings

2004 · 91 min

A slow, queasy plunge into vanity and taboo, mixing clinical horror with quiet domestic dread and a lingering bad smell.

Tagline
You eat… that you are…
Overview
Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer, a fading actress, is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • aging
  • identity
  • morality
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror8
Humour2
Realism6
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
horror
Directed by
Fruit Chan
Written by
Fruit Chan, Lilian Lee Bik-Wah
Starring
Miriam Yeung Chin-wah, Bai Ling, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Pauline Lau, Meme Tian Pu-Jun, Miki Yeung Oi-Gan, Wong Siu-Foon, Wong Sum-Yuen
Music
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Cinematography
Christopher Doyle
Runtime
91 min
Country
Hong Kong
Languages
Cantonese, Mandarin, English

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