Dumplings (Gaau ji) - 2004 Hong Kong Horror Movie
Dumplings Synopsis
No woman can possibly resist the token of rejuvenation - flip over its dreamy blissful side and you will find an expansive nightmare of endless pursuit. An ex-starlet and now wife of a prominent business man is desperate to resume her youth before her lifetime career as housewife of the filthy rich is taken away.
Learning of a mysterious chef whose dumplings apparently offer this most treasured of desires, she tracks her down, but what exactly is the secret to her recipe and at what cost has it been devised?
Alongside Takashi Miike and Park Chan-wook, Fruit Chan is considered to be one of the most talented and original directors working in Asia today. Shot by legendary cinematographer, Christopher Doyle (2046), Dumplings is a veritable feast for the senses!
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Dumplings Movie Review
This is a sick and twisted Asian Horror Movie taking a bizarre look at the nations obsession with youthfulness and beauty. Fruit Chan directs the movie in a very clever way, throughout the movie you have a suspicion what Aunt Mei's secret dumpling ingredient is but can't imagine that anyone would make a movie that confirms your suspicions.
Mrs. Lee is the wife of a rich and successful businessman, she is willing to go to any lengths to regain her youth and beauty and put a stop to her husbands philandering with younger, more beautiful, women. She hears about an ex-abortionist who has apparently found the secret to eternal youth and delivers this magic via her secret recipe for dumplings.
Mrs. Lee tracks her down and soon beings to find that she is rejuvenated beyond imagination and has regained her youth, beauty and self-confidence. But the effects of the dumplings are short lived and she needs more to maintain her new improved lifestyle. They become like a drug and she soon goes to excessive lengths to gain the secret ingredients in its purest most potent form.
Special attention has been given to the scenes where Mrs. Lee is eating the dumplings, close up shots and noisy chewing noises make this movie quite disgusting building up to the gut-renching finale. This truly is an original horror movie, a must see for anyone who thinks they can stomach it.
This movie was also release as a shortened version on the "3 Extremes" DVD along with Park Chan-wook's "Cut" and Takashi Miike's "Box".
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