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The Eaters tells the story of Lao Zhu, a famous chef at Taipei's Yuanshan Hotel, who is responsible for raising his three daughters after his wife's death, but they are different and rebellious with their own problems. As his daughters grew up, his father lost his ability to take care of them, but his mastery of cooking still kept the family together. Dinner is the only time when the family can get together and communicate. Such moments are supposed to be joyful, but every dinner is full of surprises due to the "announcements" made by each of the three daughters and the old father: lightning marriages, investment failures, unmarried pregnancies, and a new wife. This not only surprised the playwright, but also made the audience's originally calm mood frequently rippled. Every family has a difficult story, during which some people get pregnant, some are abandoned, some find true love, and some die. Until one day, the third daughter, who has always been the most well-behaved and unobtrusive, announces that she is pregnant; the eldest sister, after announcing that she has married her boyfriend, jumps on his motorcycle and speeds off before her father and the second one can get back to her. The second daughter, who wanted to move out the most, instead stays alone in her old apartment, and what was a complete home shatters like a soap bubble. At the same time, the Zhu family moved next door to a noisy widow, she is obsessed with the old Zhu, the old Zhu turned between them, and eventually, the family is about to break up again reunion.

Cast List Cast Role Actor Lao Zhu Lang Xiong Zhu Jiaqian Wu Qianlian Zhu Jiazhen Yang Guimei Zhu Jia Ning Wang Yuwen Jinrong Zhang Aika Guo Lun Chen Zhaorong Liang Auntie Gou Ya Lei Li Kai Zhao Wenxuan Raymond Chen Zhe Min Rachel Yu Chen Class Leader Chi-Der Hong Coach Chai Gin-Ming Hsu Sister Chang Huel-Yi Lin Chief's Son Shih-Jay Lin Ming-Dao Chin-Cheng Lu Airline Secretary Cho-Gin Nei Shan-Shan Yu-Chien Tang Priest Chung Ting Fast Food Manager Cheng-Fen Tso Restaurant Manager Man-Sheng Tu Chief Chuen Wang Old Wen Jui Wang Old Man Hwa Wu Wendy's Customer (uncredited) Michael Taylor Staff Credits Producers Li-Kung Hsu, James Schamus, Ted Hooper, Kong Hsu, Feng-Chyt Jiang? Director Ang Lee Assistant Director (AD) Yang-Sheng Ou? Screenplay Ang Lee, James Schamus, Jui Ling Wang Cinematography Leung-Chung Lin Soundtrack by Mader Editing by Tim Squires Art Direction by Fu-Hsiung Lee Costume Design by Wen-Chi Chen < p> The above information was obtained from

Characters

Lang Xiong as Lao Zhu?

Chef at the Yuan Shan Restaurant. The only remaining master of Chinese cuisine in Taiwan, he is gradually tasting the many embarrassments of old age.

Yang Guimei as Zhu Jiazhen

Introverted, sensitive, Christian, works as a teacher and loves to listen to opera. Because of a failed first love, unmarried (later learned that the first love but her own fantasy). She has been stubbornly holding on to her virginity because of her own beautiful visions of relationships. Just not in the silence of the outbreak, in the silence of the demise.

Cynthia Ng as Zhu Jiaqian

Thin body, firm eyes, strong woman is also. Because of her father's interference in the early years, Jia Qian had to do their own former is not keen on that line. Although also do the success, but in fact, still upset, from her happy recall of childhood about the kitchen all know, the father's behavior is actually a blow to his heart. So there was a disconnect with her father, and for years so that she even wanted to move out of the house. Only later, the house investment failure, father, big sister and little sister things let her change her mind, and finally take over the family's old house, let go of the baggage in the heart, and finally can enjoy the fun of the kitchen.

Behind the scenes Capturing Ang Lee's thoughts in the first place is a difficult task, and gaining his trust is not a simple matter. Ang Lee's precious on-set photos were revealed Instructing Winston Chiu to pounce on Cynthia Wu. Sister remembers Ang Lee's past: He would cook all the dishes for "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman". Music Soundtrack Song Title Composer Performer Ave Maria Giuseppe Verdi The Westminster Choir Sing Ye to the Lord Gee Frederic Handel The Sine Nomine Singers Lend Me Your Love Wong Yiu Ming, Choi Tak Choy Wong Yiu Ming Coffee House Thoughts The Sine Nomine Singers "Borrow Your Love" Gee Frederic Handel The Sine Nomine Singers "Coffee House Thoughts" Tsoi Tak Choi, Wong Yiu Ming "Gone with the Wind" Zhang Hong Yi Ching Man Chuen, Ching Chun Ka "My Baby" Kee Hong Jin Li Zhiqin Behind the Scenes

Background of the Creation

In 1994 Ang Lee directed Eaters & Drinkers, a film that brought the art of Chinese cooking into the drama of family and emotions, not only increasing the visual appeal, but also demonstrating the fascination and charisma of oriental cultures. Charm. Ang Lee's series of films expressing the ethics of the Chinese family, the clash of Eastern and Western cultures, and the clash of old and new concepts culminated in this special form, and Ang Lee successfully completed his "Father Trilogy" or "Family Trilogy". The film won the Outstanding Work Award at the 7th Taipei Film Awards, the Best Work and Best Editing Award at the 39th Asia-Pacific Film Festival, the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 77th David Griffith Award, and was ranked first among the top ten best Chinese-language films in Taiwan in 1994.

Awards Time Session Award Result

1994

07th Taipei Film Awards Outstanding Work Award Won

39th Asia-Pacific Film Festival Best Work Award Won Asia-Pacific Film Award Best Editing Award Won 77th David Griffiths Award Best Foreign Language Film Award Won

34th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Awards Nomination Nomination Taiwan Film Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award Nominated for Best Original Screenplay in Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in Taiwan in 1994 Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in NBR Award Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in NBR Award Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in NBR Award Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in NBR Award Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in NBR Award Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in NBR Award Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in NBR Award Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in NBR Award Best Foreign Language Film Nomination

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Release Information Release Date Release Date Country August 3, 1994 USA September 9, 1994 Canada September 15, 1994 Germany October 5, 1994 France December 9, 1994 Finland January 13, 1995 United Kingdom March 24, 1995 Denmark March 24, 1995 Spain August 25, 1995 Sweden Spain August 25, 1995 Sweden September 21, 1995 Argentina June 14, 1996 Portugal

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Movie Reviews Stills

Ang Lee passionately discusses the clash of tradition and modernity in Chinese society and the differences between Eastern and Western cultures in Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. Through the ubiquitous Chinese food in the movie, the audience can smell the alternative interpretation of "Eating Man Woman, the greatest desire of man" in the modern Chinese society. (Sina.com)

The drama of the final scene is Ang Lee pushing the trilogy to *** and another violation of taboos. The movie uses the word "food" as a metaphor for life, as people suckle from their mothers' breasts from the moment they are born, and the word "food" never goes out of their brains until they die. (Reviewed by Pineapple Can)