Meilong Town Directory [hidden] basic information cast table Story introduction behind the scenes tidbits
[ edit this paragraph] Basic information Movie title
Meilong Town
Alias
Four chefs and one dish
English title
The proud of Mei Long Tow
Movie type
Story. Region
China Hong Kong Chinese mainland
White Language
Mandarin Chinese
Color
Level
Hong Kong:I
Production Company
Shanghai Film Studios [China ]
Tangren Film Production Co., Ltd. [Hong Kong].
release date
Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong
May 1, 1999 [edit this paragraph] Cast Director
Li Guoli guoli
screenwriter Writer
Chen Baohua Bua Hua Chen
Wenkang Long Man Hong Lung
Actor
Jin Shijie Shijie Jin ... Fang Zhenjin
Jacklyn Wu Chien-lien Wu ... plum blossom, Mei Xiang
Lang Xiong Xiong Lang ... Evian Lee
Jordan Chan Jordan Chan ... Wu Shaolong
Vincent Chiao Enjun Jiao ... wujun
Yu-Wen Wang Yu-Wen Wang
Sing-Pui O Sing-Pui O
Yao Yingying Ying-Ying Yiu
Chen Guobang Kwok-pong C. Han
Pei-Pei Cheng Pei-pei Cheng
Li Yaoxiang Yi-Cheung Lai
Zhang Guozhu Guozhu Zhang
Sally Li Sha
Zhihao Ling Zhihao Ling
Feng Qi Qi Feng
Gao Shuguang Shuguang Gao
Wu Mian Mian Wu
Chengxian Xu Chengx. Ian Xu
Chen Hao Moses Chan
Producer Produced by
Li Guoli Guoli
Original Music
Huang Yinghua Raymond Wong
Photography Cinematography
Wang Tianlin Wang
Pak-huen Kwan Pak-hoon. Kwan
Lighting Technician
Wu Jianwen Kin Man Ng
Assistant Director
Brief version of Albert Kai-kwong Mak Albert Kai-kwong Mak [edited this paragraph] The "Meilong Town" is an old-fashioned restaurant in Shanghai, which was shocked by an exquisite "victory banquet" as early as the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945. Later, Meilong Town settled in Shanghai, Taipei and Hong Kong with Meijia, Longjia and Zhenjia respectively. Shanghai's "Meilong Town" has also changed, and the dishes it cooks are not as good as before. In order to revive the former "Meilong Town", the Meijia, Longjia and Zhenjia once again joined hands and cooperated sincerely, digging up ancient recipes and studying cooking skills, and finally made an original "victory banquet", which pushed the food culture of China to a new level.
The detailed version
World events, after a long time, must be combined.
On the New Year's Eve of p>1946, Mei Songxiao, Long Enen, Fang Yuanzhen and Li Yishao jointly cooked 13 dishes of the victory banquet in the kitchen of Meilong Town Restaurant, a famous restaurant in Shanghai, especially the last one, "Four Happiness in Dragon Wind", which made many diners say absolutely ...
A year later, it was still New Year's Eve. Although the atmosphere of Chinese New Year was still lively, Mei and Li Yishao were still happy. Finally, the "Meilong Town" signboard landed and was divided into three. "Regret", "Dragon" and "Town" have since fallen apart ...
Decades later, a mysterious old man came to Shanghai Meilong Town Restaurant, which was run by Fang Zhenjin, the grandson of Fang Yuan Town. He ordered four dishes of "Town Family Cuisine" and "Dragon Wind with Four Happiness", but pointed out the shortcomings one by one, which greatly impressed Fang Zhenjin. Under the guidance of the mysterious old man, he is going to bring together the descendants of "Dragon" and "Mei" to create the glory of "Meilong Town" in those years.
In the bustling streets of Hong Kong, Wu Shaolong, a family heiress of "Dragon", was selling fish eggs at the top of his voice, but his girlfriend Ya May called him over. Ya May faltered and told Long that she had a new boyfriend, and "Dragon" was so angry that he simply sold fish eggs at a low price. When he came home in grief, he inadvertently found an invitation to invite him to Shanghai's Compound Meilong Town ... < P > Mei Jia in Taipei, who just returned from studying abroad, went home cheerfully, thinking about marrying her boyfriend Wu Zhen, only to find that her sister's stomach was big. In embarrassment, my sister and Wu Zhen told the truth. It turned out that when studying in Meihua, Wu Zhen and her sister had an affair because of a bowl of miso noodles ... Plum blossoms fell in icehouse, and she was in great pain. She read the fax from Shanghai and went straight to the airport.
Wu Shaolong and Meihua met with Fang Zhen Jin Yi, and then they knew Fang's original intention. Wu Shaolong was full of expectation that he was here to share money, but he was disappointed because he needed to take out family-handed skills to compound the "victory banquet" of that year. On the contrary, he showed unusual enthusiasm for the girls in Shanghai ... < P > Plum blossoms were originally here to calm down, but when she got to the kitchen, she smelled the familiar smell of sesame sauce, and she remembered the scene of her boyfriend and sister falling in love with each other, which kept her choking and made her unable to cook.
Fang Zhenjin sees it in his eyes and is anxious in his heart. What should he do? It seems to him that only by taking the place of Plum Blossom's boyfriend can Plum Blossom get rid of psychological barriers and make a family craft. However, when Fang Zhenjin is trying to move closer to this direction, Wu Shaolong shifts his interest to Plum Blossom again, so the three of them have a love triangle ...
At this time, the mysterious old man reappears. It turns out that he is the descendant of Li Yibao, the chef of Meilong Town ... Evian Lee. He tasted the unique skills of Plum Blossom, Fang Zhenjin and Wu Shaolong, and he always felt that there was something wrong with the "Four Happiness of Dragon and Phoenix". What was the problem? At the critical moment, the mysterious old man disappeared again. The three men went to the old man's ancestral home in the country and found him. They hurried there. Evian Lee found an old painting of that year, from which the three men understood the essence of the victory banquet of that year.
It's the Spring Festival again, and the three families "Mei", "Long" and "Zhen" have finally joined hands again to prepare for the victory banquet of the year. In the festive atmosphere of "firecrackers kill the old year" and in the spring breeze of "the earth is slightly warmed", they succeeded and showed a satisfied smile. [Edit this paragraph] Behind-the-scenes tidbits Jin Shijie loves to wear old clothes
The food inheritor of the mainland "town" in the film "Melon Town with Prosperous Spring Breeze" was actually played by Jin Shijie, a Taiwan Province actor, probably because his face with a grim comedy effect was always used as an honest, wooden and ignorant man.
In fact, Jin Shijie is also an accomplished stage director and actor, and he is also a professor of rehearsal at Taiwan Province National Art School where Jacklyn Wu once studied. In the play, his style of laughing and laughing complements Koharu's funny expressions.
It turns out that when Jin Shijie was young, he was not optimistic, and he took a stand of celibacy, but in middle age he began to feel confident and optimistic. Now he not only plays a famous Chinese chef in the play, but also begins to learn cooking outside the play and welcomes the arrival of a new life with practical actions.
Jin Shijie is also successful in his career, but he wears some old clothes all day. He says that he is a nostalgic person and attaches great importance to his feelings, so he will certainly be a reliable harbor in the future.
alas, it's a pity that xiaoqian has a heart, otherwise, there may be a scene of "teacher-student love"!
Jacklyn Wu, a newcomer to "cross-dressing"
I first met Jacklyn Wu in the movie "Birthday for a Dumb Man", and I have heard her name for a long time, although I have never seen her movie before. It is only from the colorful pages in magazines and advertisements on TV that we have seen her fresh, clean and not tight posture. At that time, she only left us with a shallow smile and a pure image of small eyes. In the movie "Offering Birthday to a Fool", we really saw her graceful and generous temperament. Of course, there are also the fierce women who are faithful to their feelings in "The Beast of Beauty"; The calm lady in the first month of Longcheng; Gu Man's frame of miserable life in Half-Life Fate.
This time, she plays three roles, a pair of twin sisters and their grandfather, in Meilong Town. This is the first time for her to cross the male role in the play. When "Xiaoqian" with white hair and beard stood under the photographic lamp, she was no longer the original one who was fresh and clean. If you don't pay special attention to the movie, can you really not find her? Wu Qinglian is confident: "She can play traditional roles, villains and comedies. She believes that the most difficult thing to play is actually ordinary people, because the closest to life, it can best let the audience see whether it is like or not. Therefore, Xiaoqian's request for herself is: "Don't ask for more, but ask for everything, and don't hurt the hearts of the audience."
Chen Xiaochun, the head of the punk school, was in a good mood in 1999. Meilong Town
Jordan chan, who claims to be the head of the punk school, will meet the audience in the new year's film Meilong Town, which was filmed last year. This time, he plays a romantic food inheritor "Dragon". Although he has always secretly loved "Jacklyn Wu", he is always "thankless".
Because Koharu plays a chef who comes to Shanghai from Hong Kong, he not only has to "open his mouth" in crooked Mandarin, but also has to show off a few words of Shanghai dialect from time to time. Koharu, who is talented and clever, always jokes that he belongs to the "punk school" because he is not from a regular background, but he always gets his lines right every time, making Jacklyn Wu and Jin Shijie on one side nod. When a good Mandarin reaches him, it will be full of Hong Kong and Taiwan accents and full of comedy effects; Sometimes, even when he made a few gestures in sign language, the original ordinary lines were hilarious and meaningful. In spite of this, Koharu's language learning was full of loopholes and made a fool of himself. I'm afraid Shanghai dialect is like memorizing international phonetic symbols for Koharu. There is a line called "369, take cash", which is the spoken language of Shanghainese. Koharu kept chanting it back and forth like chanting. From the beginning of reading lines to the audition to the next interview, he likes to sleep "weakly" on the sofa whenever he is free, and he keeps his eyes straight, "Koharu, is it okay?" The director finally asked questions. "Ka" Koharu came to the stage. He looked at Jacklyn Wu with a smile on his face. He akimbo said, "You know an old saying in Shanghai, it's called' three old wines, buy old wines'" and "Ha ..." The audience was in uproar, only Koharu looked innocent, but he did add a lot of color to the film.
Li Guoli, a Hong Kong director, is in the prime of his life, and his gray hair looks more like an artist. Everyone joked that he was "cool". Director Li has formed an indissoluble bond with mainland studios in the last two years. First, in 1995, he filmed "Crazy Stock", which produced an out-and-out Shanghai little woman, and set off a "Pan Hong fever" all over the world. No one thought that the director turned out to be a "Hong Kong person". In 1996, he went to Shenzhen to direct "True Love" and won the "Excellent Foreign Cooperation Film Award" of that year. The fate between Li Dao and domestic films is getting deeper and deeper. This time, he accepted the invitation of filming with pleasure, and completed the desk work such as script modification and lens splitting with "Hong Kong speed". He also overcame difficulties such as bad weather to shoot a number of locations in Hong Kong and Taiwan Province, and led a large team to Shanghai on time during the National Day holiday.
On the set of "Meilong Town", Director Li looks serious and is meticulous in command and scheduling. Also pay close attention to the gap between lighting and changing scenery to revise the book, work for more than ten hours every day, and refuse to relax. He admits that people who make movies now are generally not in a good state, and sometimes spiritual things can't come out, but as a director, he still has the responsibility to awaken that feeling and make movies. Director Li has a pleasant cooperation with the film crew of Shanghai Film Studio. His Mandarin is fluent and standard, and there is no problem in communication.
Jacklyn Wu with a clever smile
Jacklyn Wu is literary, pure and elegant, just like her name. It is a spotless lotus flower, which is quietly blooming, "not spreading, fragrance is far and clear, graceful and quiet". Everything is beautiful in the sun, rain and fog.) There is no amazing feeling, but people are reluctant to take their eyes off the appreciation for a long time. After reading her Half-Life, I don't understand how such a young girl can deeply appreciate and interpret such a helpless, bleak and beautiful life. She just smiled faintly, but she made your heart ache, reminding you of countless past events, and could not help but burst into tears.
In the lively "Meilong Town", Wu Qinglian is still quiet, and there is no voice when she smiles. Her smile is warm and stretched, washing away all her sadness. She is fresh and beautiful, intelligent and generous, and adds a little charm under the mercury lamp. This time, she plays a pair of twin sisters with different personalities, and she has a real skill in cooking miso noodles, which is not difficult. It is said that she has even more unexpected performances in the film, but it needs to be kept a little secret for a while, hoping to surprise the audience who like her.
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