Dumplings

Original title: Gau ji

20042004
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1h 31m

Gau ji (2004)

Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer - a fading actress - is determined to find out what the sec... Read allAunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer - a fading actress - is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer - a fading actress - is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.

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Awards
- 3 wins & 3 nominations

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In Hong Kong, Aunt Mei is a cook famous for her home-made rejuvenation dumplings, based on a millenarian recipe prepared with a mysterious ingredient that she brings directly from China. The former TV star Mrs. Li visits Mei aiming her dumplings to recover her youth and become attractive again to her wolf husband Mr. Li. Along the sessions, Mei tells Mrs. Li that she was a gynecologist in China with more than 30,000 abortions along ten years. When Mrs. Li requests an acceleration of the process, the opportunity comes when a fifteen years old teenager with a five months incestuous pregnancy comes with her mother and asks Mei to make an abortion. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Trivia
Spawned from the short Dumplings from the Asian cross-cultural trilogy Three... Extremes (2004). Includes the same director and star.

Goofs
In the bath scene where Mrs. Li is sobbing whilst watching the drama. The crying doesn't match up with the movements of the body/ head and mouth.

Quotes
Mei, the cook: [first lines]
Mei, the cook: Mrs. Li? You're so beautiful.
Mrs. Li: They say your dumplings are the most expensive.
Mei, the cook: Of course! Please come in.

Connections
Edited from Three... Extremes (2004)

Top review

7/10

Amazing cinematography

Is a interesting story about the obsession to be young and the cultural concept of eating fetus to keep you that way, a dark concept but so beautifully done

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Release date
- August 19, 2004 (Hong Kong)
Country of origin
- Hong Kong
Languages
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
Also known as
- 餃子
Production companies
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Gross worldwide
- $763,552

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Runtime
1 hour 31 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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