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* SpiritualSuccessor: It's the third entry in Lee's ''Father Knows Best'' trilogy of films that deal with conflicts between an older and more traditional generation and their children as they confront a world of change, oftentime with a Chinese-American culture clash element. Actor Sihung Lung plays an elderly father in all three films, and his character in both this and ''Pushing Hands'' is an aging master (in this of cooking and in ''Hands'' of tai chi) named Chu.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: It's the third entry in Lee's ''Father Know's Best'' trilogy of films that deal with conflicts between an older and more traditional generation and their children as they confront a world of change, oftentime with a Chinese-American culture clash element. Actor Sihung Lung plays an elderly father in all three films, and his character in both this and ''Pushing Hands'' is an aging master (in this of cooking and in ''Hands'' of tai chi) named Chu.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: It's the third entry in Lee's ''Father Know's Knows Best'' trilogy of films that deal with conflicts between an older and more traditional generation and their children as they confront a world of change, oftentime with a Chinese-American culture clash element. Actor Sihung Lung plays an elderly father in all three films, and his character in both this and ''Pushing Hands'' is an aging master (in this of cooking and in ''Hands'' of tai chi) named Chu.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Patriarchal Version. All of Chu's daughters, while they love him very much, also feel at least a little stifled. While he never objects and gives them as much freedom as they want, his kindliness makes it hard to move out.
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->"Eat, drink, man, woman. Basic human desires. Can't avoid them. All my life, that's all I've ever done. It pisses me off."
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* SpiritualSuccessor: It's the third entry in Lee's ''Father Know's Best'' trilogy of films that deal with conflicts between an older and more traditional generation and their children as they confront a world of change, oftentime with a Chinese-American culture clash element. Actor Sihung Lung plays an elderly father in all three films, and his character in both this and ''Pushing Hands'' is an aging master (in this of cooking and in ''Hands'' of tai chi) named Chu.
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* FoodPorn: And HOW! Every scene with Tao Chu near a kitchen is a spectacle, and Jia-Chien's own cooking is nothing to shrug off, either.
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* FoodPorn: And HOW! Every scene with Tao Chu near a kitchen is a spectacle, and Jia-Chien's own cooking is nothing to shrug off, either.
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* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Tao Chu and Jin-Rong.]]
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* FriendsWithBenefits: Jia-Chien and her ex-boyfriend.
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* MatchCut: A rather surprising one from Jia-Chien moaning during sex to her father blowing into the gullet of a fish that he's preparing for dinner.
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A 1994 romantic drama by Ang Lee. Tao Chu, the semi-retired Master Chef of a large restaurant in Taipei, is a melancholic widower who lives in a large house with his three unmarried daughters: Jia-Jen, a heartbroken chemistry teacher; Jia-Chien, a fast-rising airline executive; and Jia-Ning, a teen student who works in a fast food restaurant. Though they live together, the family is emotionally isolated, and their last remaining common ground is an elaborate dinner every Sunday night. Tensions mount as the daughters try to seek personal fulfillment while balancing the issues arising from their father's advancing age.
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A 1994 romantic drama by Ang Lee.Creator/AngLee. Tao Chu, the semi-retired Master Chef of a large restaurant in Taipei, is a melancholic widower who lives in a large house with his three unmarried daughters: Jia-Jen, a heartbroken chemistry teacher; Jia-Chien, a fast-rising airline executive; and Jia-Ning, a teen student who works in a fast food restaurant. Though they live together, the family is emotionally isolated, and their last remaining common ground is an elaborate dinner every Sunday night. Tensions mount as the daughters try to seek personal fulfillment while balancing the issues arising from their father's advancing age.
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It was Jia-Ning who gave birth to Chu\'s grand-daughter.
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* BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Jin-Rong is shown to be pregnant with Chu's future (fourth) daughter and Jin-Rong has given birth to his first grandchild.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Jin-Rong is shown to be pregnant with Chu's future (fourth) daughter and Jin-Rong Jia-Ning has given birth to his first grandchild.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Jin-Rong is shown to be pregnant with Chu's future (fourth) daughter.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Jin-Rong is shown to be pregnant with Chu's future (fourth) daughter.daughter and Jin-Rong has given birth to his first grandchild.]]
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->"Eat, drink, man, woman. Basic human desires. Can't avoid them. All my life, that's all I've ever done. It pisses me off."
A 1994 romantic drama by Ang Lee. Tao Chu, the semi-retired Master Chef of a large restaurant in Taipei, is a melancholic widower who lives in a large house with his three unmarried daughters: Jia-Jen, a heartbroken chemistry teacher; Jia-Chien, a fast-rising airline executive; and Jia-Ning, a teen student who works in a fast food restaurant. Though they live together, the family is emotionally isolated, and their last remaining common ground is an elaborate dinner every Sunday night. Tensions mount as the daughters try to seek personal fulfillment while balancing the issues arising from their father's advancing age.
Nominated for the 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Remade with Hispanic characters as ''Tortilla Soup''.
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!!This film provides examples of the following tropes
* BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Jin-Rong is shown to be pregnant with Chu's future (fourth) daughter.]]
* TheBabyTrap: [[spoiler:Jia-Ning, though it was unintentional.]]
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:Old Wen]] gets winded for a moment, sits down... and dies.
* {{Fainting}}: Madam Liang has a high-profile Emotional Faint after [[spoiler:Chu announces he and Jin-Rong plan to marry.]]
* FoodPorn: And HOW! Every scene with Tao Chu near a kitchen is a spectacle, and Jia-Chien's own cooking is nothing to shrug off, either.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Jia-Chien and her ex-boyfriend.
* HonoraryUncle: "Old Wen", Chu's SupremeChef friend, is an HonoraryUncle to his daughters. Chu himself is an Honorary Grandfather to his neighbor's girl, Shan-Shan.
* IJustWantToBeLoved
* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:Though not explicitly stated, it's implied that Jia-Ning gets pregnant after sleeping with Guo Lun just once.]]
* LoudOfWar: After Jia-Jen gets completely frustrated by her neighbor's loud karaoke sessions, she drags two large speakers from the living room, point them towards the neighbors, and begins playing classical music at full blast.
* MarriedToTheJob: The family thinks Jia-Chien is like this. In reality, she has a FriendsWithBenefits relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and later [[spoiler:considers having an affair with a co-worker.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Tao Chu and Jin-Rong.]]
* MistakenForDying: Jia-Chien thinks her father has heart problems when she sees him visiting a doctor at the hospital's cardiac department. [[spoiler:It turns out he was getting a checkup to affirm his good health, as part of his plan to marry Jin-Rong.]]
* MultigenerationalHousehold
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: [[spoiler:Jia-Jen and the volleyball coach get married almost immediately after she realizes her feelings for him are genuine.]] She doesn't tell the family until later.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Madam Liang, the mother of neighbor Jin-Rong, spends almost all of her screen time berating her daughters as burdensome and insulting the men they married. She is visibly elated when her daughter in America gets divorced, and vows to mount the divorce papers over the toilet.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Played straight when Chu's daughters believe he plans to propose to Madam Liang, the [[ObnoxiousInLaws Obnoxious Mother-In-Law]], and fret accordingly. [[spoiler:Subverted when Chu announces his marriage to Liang's daughter Jin-Rong instead.]]
* PlayingHardToGet: Jia-Ning's friend takes tangible glee in tormenting her boyfriend Guo Lun with this. [[spoiler:It backfires when Jia-Ning misunderstood her intentions and starts dating Guo Lun herself.]]
* PrankDate: [[spoiler:Jia-Jen gets an emotional breakdown after she realizes the SecretAdmirer love letters she's been getting were from her vengeful students.]]
* RRatedOpening: An early scene shows Jia-Chien frolicking in bed with her ex-boyfriend. There's no nudity, but it's enough to twig the concerned parents in the audience.
* SupremeChef: Tao Chu, naturally. His school lunches for Shan-Shan soon cause crowds of students to mob her with food requests.
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->"Eat, drink, man, woman. Basic human desires. Can't avoid them. All my life, that's all I've ever done. It pisses me off."
A 1994 romantic drama by Ang Lee. Tao Chu, the semi-retired Master Chef of a large restaurant in Taipei, is a melancholic widower who lives in a large house with his three unmarried daughters: Jia-Jen, a heartbroken chemistry teacher; Jia-Chien, a fast-rising airline executive; and Jia-Ning, a teen student who works in a fast food restaurant. Though they live together, the family is emotionally isolated, and their last remaining common ground is an elaborate dinner every Sunday night. Tensions mount as the daughters try to seek personal fulfillment while balancing the issues arising from their father's advancing age.
Nominated for the 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Remade with Hispanic characters as ''Tortilla Soup''.
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!!This film provides examples of the following tropes
* BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Jin-Rong is shown to be pregnant with Chu's future (fourth) daughter.]]
* TheBabyTrap: [[spoiler:Jia-Ning, though it was unintentional.]]
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:Old Wen]] gets winded for a moment, sits down... and dies.
* {{Fainting}}: Madam Liang has a high-profile Emotional Faint after [[spoiler:Chu announces he and Jin-Rong plan to marry.]]
* FoodPorn: And HOW! Every scene with Tao Chu near a kitchen is a spectacle, and Jia-Chien's own cooking is nothing to shrug off, either.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Jia-Chien and her ex-boyfriend.
* HonoraryUncle: "Old Wen", Chu's SupremeChef friend, is an HonoraryUncle to his daughters. Chu himself is an Honorary Grandfather to his neighbor's girl, Shan-Shan.
* IJustWantToBeLoved
* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:Though not explicitly stated, it's implied that Jia-Ning gets pregnant after sleeping with Guo Lun just once.]]
* LoudOfWar: After Jia-Jen gets completely frustrated by her neighbor's loud karaoke sessions, she drags two large speakers from the living room, point them towards the neighbors, and begins playing classical music at full blast.
* MarriedToTheJob: The family thinks Jia-Chien is like this. In reality, she has a FriendsWithBenefits relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and later [[spoiler:considers having an affair with a co-worker.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Tao Chu and Jin-Rong.]]
* MistakenForDying: Jia-Chien thinks her father has heart problems when she sees him visiting a doctor at the hospital's cardiac department. [[spoiler:It turns out he was getting a checkup to affirm his good health, as part of his plan to marry Jin-Rong.]]
* MultigenerationalHousehold
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: [[spoiler:Jia-Jen and the volleyball coach get married almost immediately after she realizes her feelings for him are genuine.]] She doesn't tell the family until later.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Madam Liang, the mother of neighbor Jin-Rong, spends almost all of her screen time berating her daughters as burdensome and insulting the men they married. She is visibly elated when her daughter in America gets divorced, and vows to mount the divorce papers over the toilet.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Played straight when Chu's daughters believe he plans to propose to Madam Liang, the [[ObnoxiousInLaws Obnoxious Mother-In-Law]], and fret accordingly. [[spoiler:Subverted when Chu announces his marriage to Liang's daughter Jin-Rong instead.]]
* PlayingHardToGet: Jia-Ning's friend takes tangible glee in tormenting her boyfriend Guo Lun with this. [[spoiler:It backfires when Jia-Ning misunderstood her intentions and starts dating Guo Lun herself.]]
* PrankDate: [[spoiler:Jia-Jen gets an emotional breakdown after she realizes the SecretAdmirer love letters she's been getting were from her vengeful students.]]
* RRatedOpening: An early scene shows Jia-Chien frolicking in bed with her ex-boyfriend. There's no nudity, but it's enough to twig the concerned parents in the audience.
* SupremeChef: Tao Chu, naturally. His school lunches for Shan-Shan soon cause crowds of students to mob her with food requests.
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