Movies - Dumplings

Home > Listing Index > Movies > Dumplings (film)

	Movies - Dumplings

Dumplings (Gaau ji) is a 2004 Hong Kong horror film, directed by Fruit Chan. It was expanded from a short segment in the horror compilation, Three... Extremes
.

It was premiered in the United Kingdom during the Cardiff Screen Festival, on November 11, 2005.

Plot summary

A rich woman, Mrs. Li, is losing her attractiveness and longs for passion with her husband. In order to boost her image, she seeks out the help of Aunt Mei, a local chef. Mei cooks her some special dumplings which she claims to be effective for rejuvenation. Later it is found out that the special ingredients are unborn foetuses that have been taken from the abortion clinic Mei previously worked for. After Mrs Li finds this out, she is initially outraged and runs away, but later comes back to eat the foetus. She keeps seeking more potent stuff, until one day she is in luck: Mei has just performed a black market abortion operation on a schoolkid five months pregnant who has been impregnated by her father. Mei makes this into a dumpling, which Mrs Li devours, and this has a wondrous effect on her libido, and she goes into the hospital and makes love with her husband. Mr Li overhears a conversation between his wife and Mei about what happened, and pays the latter a visit, inquiring into whether it really works. Mr Li eats one of her dumplings, makes love to Mei, whom he finds out is 64, but with the body of a slender 35 year old. She puts her looks down to her cannibalism.

Soon after, it is revealed that Mr Li has impregnated his masseuse; and when Mrs Li catches word of this she pays her to have it aborted, insisting to the doctor that the baby comes out alive. From then on it's assumed that Mrs Li continues the work of Aunt Mei, and takes to making fetus dumplings.

Cast

Bai Ling
as Mei
Miriam Yeung
as Mrs. Li
Tony Leung as Mr. Li
Pauline Lau as Masseuse
Miki Yeung
as Kate
Mi Mi Lee

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Dumplings (film) ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Dumplings (film); it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay