Before becoming a full feature, “Dumplings” was a short film, part of a great horror trilogy titled “Three… Extremes”, which, apart from Fruit Chan’s, also included Takashi Miike’s and Park Chan-wook’s efforts.
The story revolves around two women. Retired actress Mrs Li wants to become young and beautiful again, in order to draw her husband’s sexual interest back to her, who, unbeknownst to her, keeps a mistress. Her efforts bring her to the second focal woman, Aunt Mei, a mysterious individual who claims to be much older than she appears, and offers dumplings that supposedly bring back youth and sexual vigor, to her overpaying customers. Mrs Li soon sees the benefits of her new diet, but is totally appalled when she realizes that Aunt Mei uses aborted fetuses to staff her dumplings. The repercussions of eating them and the ways Aunt Mei goes...
The story revolves around two women. Retired actress Mrs Li wants to become young and beautiful again, in order to draw her husband’s sexual interest back to her, who, unbeknownst to her, keeps a mistress. Her efforts bring her to the second focal woman, Aunt Mei, a mysterious individual who claims to be much older than she appears, and offers dumplings that supposedly bring back youth and sexual vigor, to her overpaying customers. Mrs Li soon sees the benefits of her new diet, but is totally appalled when she realizes that Aunt Mei uses aborted fetuses to staff her dumplings. The repercussions of eating them and the ways Aunt Mei goes...
- 12/19/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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