makiprettywoman3 Dumplings deals with some serious issues. You have Bai Ling. Bai Ling plays Mei a famous cook known for her home made rejuvenation dumplings. There is a secret ingredient in these dumplings. You are not told this woman was a former gynecologist and person who used to perform abortions. You won't know much about Mei exactly until a little later in the movie.You have a former TV Star Mrs. Li who visits Mei because she think those dumplings can help recover her youth and become attractive again to her husband. At what costs is it worth looking young? There also ends up being problems with husband such as having sex with other woman than his wife.Some of the content in this movie is stuff you may morally object to. This movie deals with a lot of different moral issues tied to love, beauty and abortion. Just having something like abortion in a movie would probably turn away any American from wanting to watch a movie like this. They ended up taking a short story and made into a 90 minute movie. It does end up being a little bit slow at times. This is an interesting movie. This is worth seeing at least once.

Darth-Helmet In Hong Kong, an owner of a small Dumpling restaurant named Aunt Mei (Bai Leng) is famous for her special dumplings that help rejuvenation fast. Retired TV Actress Mrs. Lee is a loyal costumer who enjoys her delicious delicacy and feels more younger, but her dirty bastard of a husband is cheating on her as it wouldn't make any difference. Mei use to be a former abortionist and later Mrs. Lee will soon discover the secret recipe.Grueling, well acted and alarming horror thriller from Hong Kong that is one of the most shocking films to ever come from Asia. Director-Editor Fruit Chan has made one sick little movie that doesn't really have much gore but disturbing subject matter to make the viewer a little queasy. There is some dark humor to propel the sickening atmosphere of this movie that makes this little film one controversial shocker. The cinematography is well crafted and the direction is quite nifty, this movie will guaranteed to mess with your mind once it's over.

jamesjay64 I am new to the Asia Extreme films (the first I saw was Oldboy). I enjoyed it because it evokes a sense of creepiness missing from American made films for a long time. Since I have only seen the short film version of the movie; I feel a bit disadvantaged to comment. That having been said, it was well acted and paced. I will be checking more of these out in the future as an alternative to the redundant "horror" being turned out by Hollywood. Spoiler (maybe).... I believe the woman's lengthened tongue in the final scene is meant to symbolize the monster that her vanity created rather than an actual mutation of her actual tongue.

sigmonae Okay. Intellectually, I can appreciate what it is trying to say. The social commentary is biting and unflinching. In this film, all of the women are victims in some way of a perverse, materialistic society in which they exist as sex objects and fantasies for men. Once they grow old, they are discarded, their lives now purposeless, impoverished, and empty. The promotion for this film says that Mrs. Li, the protagonist, is motivated by vanity, but this is not quite the case. She is simply so twisted by the need to please her man and, in effect, to survive, that she will commit the most horrifying crime imaginable. I am NOT excusing her behavior- she chose her path for herself, and could have turned back once she realized what was going on- but I think that Fruit Chan is trying to show that society is sick, not simply Mrs. Li. There are also interesting class issues going on. The literal image of the rich making a feast of the poor in order to be rejuvenated is powerful, if disgusting.THIS SAID, I had to walk out of this movie and have a nice cup of tea. I just couldn't stand any more dead babies being chopped up. Fruit Chan spares no one and cares nothing for decency. This movie got me thinking, which I suppose is a good thing, but I'd have maybe rather read this as a novel than see all the gory details in a movie. It is a good film, well made, and says something important about the way we live now, but it is not enjoyable, and unless you know what you're in for ahead of time, and still want to see it, I would advise you stay home.