Ying LI

Dream Cuisine

Nippon Cinema   ª 

The Cultural Revolution almost wiped out the refined Shandong-cooking method; Hatsue SATO, it's only living master, saved it by emigration to Japan. Now she is intent on bringing it back to China – but is the new China interested in this ancient art?

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Dream Cuisine (NC 2003)

Japan 2003

134 minutes

Director
Ying LI

Cinematography
Yasuhiro HOTTA

Production
Dragon Films, NHK

World sales
Dragon Films

About Ying LI

Ying LI, born in 1963 in Guangzhou, China, made documentaries for China Central Television (CCTV) from 1984. In 1989, he went to Japan to do research in visual anthropology. In 1993, he co-founded the production company Dragon Films and has been a director ever since.