A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.
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Sihung Lung | ... | Chu |
| Yu-Wen Wang | ... | Jia-Ning | |
| Chien-Lien Wu | ... | Jia-Chien | |
| Kuei-Mei Yang | ... | Jia-Jen | |
| Sylvia Chang | ... | Jin-Rong | |
| Winston Chao | ... | Li Kai | |
| Chao-jung Chen | ... | Guo Lun | |
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Chit-Man Chan | ... | Raymond |
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Yu Chen | ... | Rachel |
| Ah-Lei Gua | ... | Madame Liang (as Ya-Lei Kuei) | |
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Chi-Der Hong | ... | Class Leader |
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Gin-Ming Hsu | ... | Coach Chai |
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Huel-Yi Lin | ... | Sister Chang |
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Shih-Jay Lin | ... | Chief's Son |
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Chin-Cheng Lu | ... | Ming-Dao |
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Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity, Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Jia-Ning, a student who also works in a fast food restaurant. Life in the house revolves around the ritual of an elaborate dinner each Sunday, and the love lives of all the family members. Written by Will Gilbert
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chef | chinese food | cooking | father daughter relationship | daughter |Taglines:
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3 August 1994 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$7,294,403Company Credits
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Chu: I'm not upset. I hope they all move out, so I can have a quiet life.
Old Wen: Quiet life? I know you. What you want, you can't get. What you don't want, you can't get rid of. You're as repressed as a turtle. That old maid of yours, Jia-Jen, will stick to you for life unless you marry her off!
Chu: Marry who? Since she lost her asshole college boyfriend she's never looked at another man. You know that.
Old Wen: And now she has the perfect ...
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Vocals by Yueh-Yun Pan and Bob Chen
Lyrics by Bob Chen
Music by Bob Chen
Arrangment by Chen-Fan Li
Courtesy of Rock Records and Tapes
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As of 2016, this is the only film made by director Ang Lee to be set in his native Taiwan. See more »Goofs
When Madame Liang arrives by cab at her house together with her daughter and her grandchild, it is heavily raining, however, right in front of the taxi the road is wet, but there are no rain drops visible, in particular not in the puddle right in font of the cab. See more »Quotes
Old Wen: Old Chu, do'nt get upset. Girls eventually leave home. It was bound to happen.Chu: I'm not upset. I hope they all move out, so I can have a quiet life.
Old Wen: Quiet life? I know you. What you want, you can't get. What you don't want, you can't get rid of. You're as repressed as a turtle. That old maid of yours, Jia-Jen, will stick to you for life unless you marry her off!
Chu: Marry who? Since she lost her asshole college boyfriend she's never looked at another man. You know that.
Old Wen: And now she has the perfect ...
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JACK AND JILLVocals by Yueh-Yun Pan and Bob Chen
Lyrics by Bob Chen
Music by Bob Chen
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The well-traveled metaphor of food as communication is given a tender, appealing treatment in Ang Lee's finely observed film about a widower whose aging and loneliness have caused him to lose touch with his three grown daughters, each of whom is looking for love in modern-day Taiwan. The father (a gallant Sihung Lung) is a master chef who has begun to lose his sense of taste while attempting to come to grips with his daughters' increasing independence and the failing health of his best friend (Jui Wang); he begins to question the basis of existence, namely love and food. The daughters, meanwhile, feeling cramped by their father's distance, begin to explore notions of freedom from their cramped quarters. Lee is in a positive, sympathetic frame of mind here, articulately exploring the theme of alienation that he would later revisit with a much more gloomy perspective in `The Ice Storm' and though the film holds virtually no surprises, it is a stylistic success, easy to like and moving effortlessly with a superior sense of rhythm; it's always pleasing, even when the content feels overly familiar. He demonstrates a healthy respect for his characters (with the exception of a divorcee whose bitter views of marriage don't stop her from pursuing Lung)--everyone gets to play out their lives with dignity and happiness and without an ounce of filmmaker moralizing.