Dumplings (film)

Dumplings (Gaau ji)
Directed by	Fruit Chan
Produced by	Peter Chan, Eric Tsang
Written by	Lilian Lee
Starring	Miriam Yeung Tony Leung Ka Fai Bai Ling Pauline Lau Mi Mi Lee Miki Yeung
Music by	Chan Kwong-wing
Cinematography	Christopher Doyle
Edited by	Fruit Chan (as Sam-Fat Tin), Chan Ki-hop
Production company	Applause Pictures Ltd.
Distributed by	e-m-s the DVD-Company (Germany)
Release date	4 August 2004 (2004-08-04) (Germany) 11 October 2005 (2005-10-11) (Cardiff Film Festival)
Running time	91 min
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese Mandarin

Dumplings (Chinese: 餃子; pinyin: Jiǎozi; Jyutping: Gaau2zi2) is a 2004 Hong Kong horror film, directed by Fruit Chan. It was expanded from a short segment in the horror compilation, Three... Extremes. The film is rated as Category III in Hong Kong. It premiered in Germany during the Berlin International Film Festival, on 4 August 2005, as part of the Panorama section.

Mrs Li, a former actress, is losing her good looks and longs for passion with her wealthy husband, who is revealed to be having a love affair with his younger and more attractive masseuse. In order to boost her image, she seeks the help of Aunt Mei, a local chef. Mei cooks her some special dumplings which she claims to be effective for rejuvenation. After Mrs Li sneaks a look in the kitchen and sees a foetus being used as an ingredient within her next meal on her visits, she is initially disgusted and runs away, but later comes back. Mei tells her that the secret ingredient for her rejuvenating dumplings is unborn foetuses imported from an abortion clinic in Shenzhen, where she used to work. Mrs Li asks her to keep finding more potent remedies, until one day she is in luck: Mei had just performed a black market abortion on Kate, a girl five months pregnant who has been impregnated by her father. Mei makes the foetus into dumplings, which Mrs Li devours. This has a wondrous effect on her libido as she goes into the hospital and has sex with her husband, who has recently injured his leg.