Dumplings: Three Extremes
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Introduction
A group of acclaimed creators steps outside the box for Dumplings: Three...Extremes. A ninety-minute version of director Fruit Chan's segment of the horror omnibus Three...Extremes, Dumplings comes courtesy of a variety of unexpected creators. Based on a novella from Lillian Lee, and produced by Peter Chan, the film stars the unlikely pair of box office queen Miriam Yeung and Hollywood actress Bai Ling. It also nixes the supernatural creepiness normally associated with the genre and delivers a haunting and even realistic glimpse at human horrors.
Title
- Chinese: 三更2之饺å?
- English: Dumplings Three Extremes
Year
- 2004
Cast
- Miriam Yeung Chin-Wah
- Bai Ling
- Tony Leung Ka-Fai
- Miki Yeung Oi-Gan
Director
Fruit Chan Gor
Producer
Peter Chan Ho-Sun
Writer
Lilian Lee
Genre
- Horror
- Drama
Summary
Miriam Yeung plays Ching, a middle-aged former TV star whose best years are far behind her. When we first meet her, she's just shown up at the apartment of Mei (Bai Ling). Immediately, Mei knows that Ching is here to sample her renowned and extremely expensive dumplings. Featuring a glutinous, semitransparent outer skin and filling that's alarmingly pinkish in hue, the dumplings are renowned not necessarily for their taste, but for their reputed anti-aging properties. More to the point, the dumplings are supposed to make a middle-aged woman with sagging skin into a firm-skinned goddess bursting with sexually-appealing youth. Ching's reason for ingesting the dumplings is because she's desperate to regain the affection of her husband Mr. Lee (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), who's taken to consorting with his masseuse. Ching longs for him to look at her again, not necessarily because she loves him, but because his disinterest hurts her vanity
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