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Hainan Chicken Rice is a famous Singaporean cuisine. But in Rice Rhapsody, it means much more than just a delicious dish. It nourishes our souls as much as it does to the bodies. Chicken Rice embodies warm familial affection and is adding rich flavor to people's lives in the film. Food, family and love interweave to form a story that is going to touch all.

Jen (Sylvia Chang) raises her three sons alone by running a restaurant famous for Hainan Chicken Rice. A traditional mother who looks forward to grandchildren, she has all her hopes on her youngest son Leo (Tan Lepham) because both her elder sons are gay. Collaborating with her neighbor Kim Shui (Martin Yan, the famous TV Chef), also a restaurant owner, Jen hopes to arouse Leo's interest in girls by having a young and passionate female exchange student from France moving in. Meanwhile Jen finds Kim Shui's newly invented Hainan Duck Rice challenging her self-esteem. She runs into a cooking contest with Kim Shui, but then she discovers something more important to her than her chicken rice...

You must not miss Sylvia Chang's vivid acting and Martin Yan's first amazing appearance in cinema. Sylvia Chang, Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Awards 2002 (Forever and Ever), stars as a contemporary Singaporean mother who demonstrates a complex emotion and a female courage that is shared by many mothers in the world. Martin Yan continues to amuse his audience in Rise Rhapsody by his humor in the famous TV cooking show Yan Can Cook.

Kenneth Bi, son of the famous Chinese actress Ivy Ling Po, was born in Singapore and educated in the States. Having a reputation as Ang Lee the second, his Rice Rhapsody strikes a chord of resonance with Lee's successful films Eat Drink Man Woman (also starring Sylvia Chang) and The Wedding Banquet, in terms of stylistic elements as well as thematic concerns.

The script of this film was awarded the Outstanding Screenplay of 1999 by the Taiwan Government Information Office. This year the film is selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival and Pusan International Film Festival. Rice Rhapsody also has Sylvia Chang nominated for the Best Actress and Kawasaki Masahiro for the Best Original Film Score in the Taipei Golden Horse Awards.

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Product Title:	Rice Rhapsody (DTS Version) 海南雞飯 (DTS版) 海南鸡饭 (DTS版) ライス・ラプソディ （海南鶏飯: Rice Rhapsody） Rice Rhapsody (DTS Version)
Artist Name(s):	Sylvia Chang | Martin Yan Wen Da | Chen Li Peng | Laurent Melanie | Maggie Q | Kenneth Bi 張艾嘉 | 甄文達 | 陳立鵬 | Melanie Laurent | Maggie Q | 畢國智 张艾嘉 | 甄文达 | 陈立鹏 | Melanie Laurent | Maggie Q | 毕国智 張艾嘉（シルビア・チャン） | Martin Yan Wen Da | Chen Li Peng | メラニー・ローレン | マギー・Ｑ | 畢國智（ケネス・ビイ） Sylvia Chang | Martin Yan Wen Da | Chen Li Peng | Laurent Melanie | Maggie Q | Kenneth Bi
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Release Date:	2005-03-18
Language:	Mandarin
Subtitles:	English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Country of Origin:	Hong Kong
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	All Region What is it?
Rating:	IIA
Duration:	106 (mins)
Publisher:	Joy Sales (HK)
Package Weight:	150 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1003944678

* Screen Format : N/A
* Sound Mix : DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1
* DVD Type : N/A
* Extra :
- 製作特輯 Making of
- 預告 Trailers
- 角色簡介及Bonus Video 幾米作品：向左走 向右走
　Characters And Bonus Video: Turn Left Turn Right

導演：畢國智
Director: Kenneth Bi

　　海南雞飯屬新加坡名菜，軟焾焾的飯中滲出淡淡鮮雞香味，而配料經雞油炒香後滋味撲鼻而來，加上新鮮靚雞皮爽肉滑，令人食指大動，胃口大開。一道正宗上等海南雞飯不僅屬頂級美食藝術，更能吃出大廚心思，感受不一樣的故事﹗

　　珍(張艾嘉飾， 2002年憑《地久天長》獲香港電影金像獎最佳女主角)自十二年前遭丈夫遺棄後，以祖傳秘方調製的海南雞飯打響名堂，於新加坡開設餐館，獨力養活三個兒子。傳統的珍一直渴望兒子繼後香燈，當發現長子及次子皆是同性戀者後，將希望孤注一擲放在小兒子LEO身上。

　　JEN為一盡家庭責任，延續傳宗接代的理想，與好友金水(世界名廚甄文達飾)合力介紹女孩子給LEO，其中法國交換生SABINE與LEO甚為投契，珍大感安慰。

　　其時金水憑一道新發明的菜式一炮而紅，響徹廚壇，他的新菜間接拆毀了珍以海南雞飯起家的生意﹔珍無形中自尊盡創。珍與金水在一次高手雲集的廚藝比賽中相遇，珍發現，觸動她生命每個點滴的，並不單是一碗海南雞飯……

　　Hainan (HI-Nahn) Chicken Rice: one of the staples of Singaporean cuisine, a Chinese risotto sizzled in a pan and simmered in chicken stock, glistening with chicken essence and fragrant with ginger, every grain plump and separate yet chewy and bursting with juice. .

　　After being abandoned by her husband twelve years earlier, Jen (Sylvia Chang; “Eat Drink Man Woman”, “The Red Violin.” Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Awards 2002 - “Forever and Ever”), raised her three sons alone. She uses her mother's secret Hainan Chicken Rice recipe and opened a restaurant to support the family.

　　Her two older sons, Daniel and Harry are gay, as a woman with traditional values, Jen is fretful that she would have no grandchildren, if Leo, too, turns out to be gay.

　　Together she and best friend, Kim Chui (Martin Yan; famous Chinese cuisine TV Chef “Yan Can Cook”) device a plan to keep Leo straight by bringing in a French exchange student to live with them. She is Leo’s age and her name is Sabine. Leo develops a strange but intriguing relationship with her, which greatly pleases Jen.

　　However, things begin to crumble for her again when Kim Chui becomes “the toast of the town” with his invention of a new dish deeply challenging her Chicken Rice. Kim Chui becomes a national celebrity overnight, and Jen's self-esteem is threatened.

　　Finally, their conflicts come to a head when Jen participates in a cooking contest with Kim Chui and other chefs from Singapore. Food unexpectedly becomes a medium that not only nourishes their bodies but also opens their hearts…

監　製：李嘉繪
出品人：成龍、楊受成、陳自強、蘇志鴻、GARY HAMILTON
製作顧問：張艾嘉

This film has won 1 award(s) and received 1 award nomination(s).

• Hong Kong Films Awards 2006
  • Best Actress Nomination, Sylvia Chang
  • Best New Director Winner, Kenneth Bi

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