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Eat Drink Man Woman

1994 · 123 min

A warm, subtly comic feast of family change, where quiet meals carry unspoken love and loss.

Tagline
A comedy to arouse your appetite.
Overview
Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • love
  • aging
  • identity
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism9
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, romance
Directed by
Ang Lee
Written by
Wang Huiling, James Schamus, Ang Lee
Starring
Lung Sihung, Yang Kuei-mei, Jacklyn Wu, Wang Yu-wen, Sylvia Chang, Winston Chao Wen-hsuan, Chen Chao-jung, Lester Chan Chit-man
Music
Mader
Cinematography
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Runtime
123 min
Country
Taiwan, United States of America
Languages
Mandarin

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