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Taste Detective

2020 · 87 min

A food-loving detective picks at a case like a slow meal, mixing gentle charm with quiet dread. The mystery unfolds deliberately, asking you to savour each clue.

Directed by
Lisu Wu
Genres
Crime
Overview
Lu Wen is a retired detective who loves food in Hong Kong, China. Occasionally, he received an invitation to go to Yokohama, Japan to participate in a celebrity chef's cooking banquet, but he was caught in a murder situation. After arriving in Yokohama, Lu Wen continued to have food homicides, and all of them revolved around the big case he failed to solve three years ago.
How it feels
Tense, dark and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
About
Mystery, crime, obsession, guilt
Content
Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
Note
Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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Directed by
Lisu Wu
Genres
Crime
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour2
Realism7
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

Cast

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Details

Genres
crime
Directed by
Lisu Wu
Starring
Wang Fang, Chen Junxi, Yuan Baizihui
Runtime
87 min
Country
China
Languages
Mandarin

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