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Spicy Love Soup (Chinese: 爱情麻辣烫; pinyin: Aìqíng Má Là Tāng) is a 1997 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yang and written by Zhang, Liu Fendou, Cai Shangjun, and Diao Yi'nan based on a story by Zhang and Peter Loehr.
Aiqing mala tang: Directed by Yang Zhang. With Xuebing Wang, Chuan Chao, Emil Chau, Yuanyuan Gao. Six vignettes on love as experienced in contemporary China.
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- Drama, Romance
- Yang Zhang
- 1997
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Spicy Love Soup starts with a young couple eating sweet (or sour) and spicy soup from a two-sided bowl shaped in a Yin and Yang pattern. Until the couple’s wedding at the end of the film, Spicy Love Soup intermittently shows six different episodes about different generations’ relationships.
Released in May of 1997, Zhang Yang's feature debut, Spicy Love Soup (the first Chinese indie to find success at the box office) predated mainstreamer Feng Xiaogang's epochal The Dream Factory by about 6 months, and may well have been an influence on that film's formal establishment of the Chinese New Year tradition in Mainland China.
- Zhang Yang
- Xi'an Film Studio
Spicy Love Soup is a 1997 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yang and written by Zhang, Liu Fendou, Cai Shangjun, and Diao Yi'nan based on a story by Zhang and Peter Loehr. Spicy Love Soup was produced by Loehr's Imar Film Company, Xi'an Film Studio, and Taiwanese financing.
Jan 9, 2004 · Released internationally in London's East West Film Festival in June 1998, Spicy Love Soup was generally well received by western critics. Derek Elley of Variety cited the film as being a pioneering example of the "well directed" Chinese movie, that nevertheless doesn't fall into the camp of "artier" fare. The film was also well received in ...
