Wedding Banquet, The (1993) Taiwan
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Director:Lee, Ang, Birney, Dion, Chang, Jeanne Kuo, Chao, Winston, Chen, Paul, Chin, May
Studio:Ang Lee Productions
Writer:Ang Lee, Neil Peng
Rating:7.5 (6,834 votes)
Rated:R
Date Added:2012-06-05
ASIN:027616906915
Awards:Nominated for Oscar, Another 12 wins & 7 nominations
Genre:Chinese films
IMDb:0107156
Duration:1:48:00
Aspect Ratio:1.85 : 1
Sound:Mono
Languages:Mandarin, English
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish
LAC code:300005879
DVD or VHS:DVD
Original:original
Lee, Ang, Birney, Dion, Chang, Jeanne Kuo, Chao, Winston, Chen, Paul, Chin, May  ...  (Director)
Ang Lee, Neil Peng  ...  (Writer)
 
Ya-lei Kuei  ...  Mrs. Gao
Sihung Lung  ...  Mr. Gao
May Chin  ...  Wei-Wei
Winston Chao  ...  Wai-Tung Gao
Mitchell Lichtenstein  ...  Simon
Dion Birney  ...  Andrew
Jeanne Kuo Chang  ...  Wai-Tung's Secretary
Paul Chen  ...  Guest
Chung-Wei Chou  ...  Chef
Yun Chung  ...  Guest
Ho-Mean Fu  ...  Guest
Michael Gaston  ...  Justice of the Peace
Jeffrey Howard  ...  Street Musician
Theresa Hou  ...  Female Cashier
Yung-Teh Hsu  ...  Bob Law, Wai-Tung's Old Friend
Comments: DCH 147

Summary: Dig in! This "funny and poignant comedy of manners" (The New York Times), directed and co-written by Oscar(r) nominee* Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility), is an absolutely delicious feast! Winner of the Berlin Film Festival's prestigious Golden Bear, The Wedding Banquet is "top-notch comedy" (Leonard Maltin)! Successful New Yorker Wai Tung and his partner Simonare blissfully happy, except for one thing: Wai Tung's conservative Taiwanese parents are determined he find a nice girl to marry! To please themand get a tax breakhe arranges a sham marriage to Wei Wei, a sexy go-getter in need of a green card. But when his family swoops down for the extravaganza, Wai Tung would do well to remember that at a traditional Chinese wedding banquet, sexual repression takes the night off!