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. Many of the cast members had starred in Ang Lee's previous film, The Wedding Banquet, with Sihung Lung and Ah Lei Gua once more playing central elderly figures, and Winston Chao. The film was released on August 3, 1994. The film was a critical 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 film inspired the 2001 remake Tortilla Soup.
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“...it is God’s gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 3:13.
“Which is it? Is man merely God’s mistake? Or is God merely man’s mistake?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)