Awards
1994 Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Film Award, Best Editing
1994 Golden Horse Awards Outstanding Producer Special Award, Nominated for Best Feature Film, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay
1995 Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film Nomination
1995 Golden Globe Award Best Foreign Language Film Nomination
Director _ Ang LEE
Ang LEE was born in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The son of a high school principal with traditional ideas about education, Lee chose to study theater in America instead. He went on to get an M.F.A. in Film Production at NYU. In 1990, Lee made his first feature, Pushing Hands. His films include The Wedding Banquet (Golden Bear, Berlin Film Festival), Eat Drink Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility (Golden Bear), The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Oscar, Best Foreign Film), Hulk, Brokeback Mountain (Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival and Oscar, Best Director), Lust, Caution (Golden Lion), Taking Woodstock, Life of Pi (Oscar, Best Director), Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, and Gemini Man. He lives in New York with his wife.
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Eat Drink Man Woman
Film Introduction
Drama ▎127 mins ▎Ang LEE ▎1994
Jin, at the age of sixty, believed she had already weathered all of life’s storms.
Chu is a master chef who has lost his sense of taste. He has three daughters with very different personalities: the eldest daughter, Jia-Jen, is a Christian, and since her mother's death, she has taken up her mother's duties as the eldest daughter and dedicated herself to her family; the second, Jia-Chien, is a high-ranking executive of an airline company and is smart and capable, inherited with her father's culinary skills, but she does not go into her own kitchen, and only wants to buy a house and leave her home; The youngest daughter, Jia-Ning, is a college student starting to explore romance . For the weekly family dinner, Chu prepares a sumptuous meal, but his daughters have their own problems, and the conflict between the two generations always comes to the forefront. When Mrs. Liang, the mother of neighbor Jin-Rong, returns from the United States, everyone's lives gradually change.
Along with Ang Lee's other two films, Pushing Hands and The Wedding Banquet, both starring actor Paul Lung, this film is an insightful portrayal of fatherhood and explores family conflicts in the Confucian tradition, making it the "Father Trilogy". Through Ang Lee's comedic direction, the film is a delicate portrayal of intergenerational relationships at the "round table" of a restaurant, a symbol of reunion. The film was nominated for both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and was the first Taiwanese film to open the Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.
