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''Eat Drink Man Woman'' is a 1994 Taiwanese film directed by Ang Lee and starring Sihung Lung, Yu-wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, and Kuei-mei Yang. The film was released on August 3, 1994, the first of Lee's films to be both a critical and box office success. In 1994, the film received the Asia Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Film, and in 1995 it received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. The title is a quote from the Book of Rites, one of the Confucian classics, referring to the basic human desires and accepting them as natural. The beginning of the quote reads as follows: “The things which men greatly desire are comprehended in meat and drink and sexual pleasure; ()” (Translation by James Legge), Chinese: . Many of the cast members had appeared in Ang Lee's previous films. Sihung Lung and Ah Lei Gua played central elderly figures dealing with the transition from tradition to modernity in ''The Wedding Banquet'', in which Winston Chao also starred. Sihung Lung played an immigrant father in ''Pushing Hands''. These three films show the tensions between the generations of a Confucian family, between East and West, and between tradition and modernity. They form what has been called Lee's "Father Knows Best" trilogy.〔Wei Ming Dariotis, Eileen Fung, "(Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar: Diaspora and Displacement in the Films of Ang Lee )," in Hsiao-peng Lu, ed., ''Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender'' (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997), p. 242.〕 ==Plot== The setting is 1990s contemporary Taipei, Taiwan. Mr. Chu (C: 老朱, P: ''Lǎo Zhū'' "Old Chu"; Sihung Lung), a widower who is a master Chinese chef, has three unmarried daughters, each of whom challenges any narrow definition of traditional Chinese culture: * Chu Jia-Jen (C: 朱家珍, P: ''Zhū Jiāzhēn''), the oldest one (Kuei-Mei Yang), is a school teacher nursing a broken heart who converted to Christianity. * Chu Jia-Chien (C: 朱家倩, P: ''Zhū Jiāqiàn''), the middle one (Chien-lien Wu), is a fiercely independent airline executive who carries her father's culinary legacy, but never got to pursue that passion. * Chu Jia-Ning (T: 朱家寧, S: 朱家宁, ''Zhū Jiāníng''), the youngest one (Yu-Wen Wang), is a college student who meets her friend's on-again off-again ex-boyfriend and starts a relationship with him. Each Sunday Mr. Chu makes a glorious banquet for his daughters, but the dinner table is also the family forum, or perhaps “torture chamber,” to which each daughter brings “announcements” as they negotiate the transition from traditional “father knows best” style to a new tradition which encompasses old values in new forms. Other characters include: * Uncle Wen (T: 老溫, S: 老温, P: ''Lǎo Wēn'' "Old Wen"), chef friend of Mr. Chu * Liang Jin-Rong (T: 梁錦榮, S: 梁锦荣, P: ''Liáng Jǐnróng''), a young single-mother * Shan-Shan (C: 珊珊 ''Shānshān''), Jin-Rong’s daughter * Mrs. Liang (C: 梁母, P: ''Liáng-mǔ'' "Liang Mother"), Jin-Rong’s mother, who comes to live with her * Li Kai (T: 李 凱, S: 李 凯, P: ''Lǐ Kǎi''), an up-and-coming airline executive * Raymond (C: 雷蒙), Jia-Chien’s ex-lover, with privileges * Zhou Mingdao (C: 明道, P: ''Míngdào''), volleyball coach with a motor bike * Guo Lun (T: 國 倫, S: 国 伦, P: ''Guó Lún''), ex-boyfriend of Jia-Ning's friend As the film progresses, each daughter encounters new men. When these new relationships blossom, their roles are broken and the living situation within the family changes. The father eventually brings the greatest surprise to the audience at the end of the story. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eat Drink Man Woman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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