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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
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
- Zhang Yang
- Xi'an Film Studio
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Set in 1990s Beijing, the film explores the interconnected love lives of four young professionals: Jianbin (Xuebing Wang), a photographer; Lianping (Chuan Chao), a struggling writer; Qiuxia (Jie Dong), a marketing executive; and Xiaomei (Yun Zhu), a flight attendant.
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- Xuebing Wang, Chuan Chao, Emil Chau
- Zhang Yang
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.
Technical Specs. Runtime: 1 h 49 min. ‘Aiqing mala tang’ (‘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.
