Released Date:
1999-02-06
Languages:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Min Nan
Countries:
Hong Kong, Taiwan
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(8247 Reviews)
Director:
Vincent KokJackie Chan
Ivy Ho (story)
Vincent Kok
Yiu Fai Lo
A Taiwanese girl named Bu has just been proposed to. While pondering the proposal, she finds a message in a bottle which inspires her go to Hong Kong to meet the guy, Albert, who wrote the message. However, she finds out that Albert is gay. A successful playboy businessman CN, and Howie have been rivals in love and business since school days. Howie finds out that CN is dating his girl and also trying to take over his company. Howie tells his guys to teach CN a lesson. Bu happens to be there and saves CN, but decides to fake her identity and scheme to make him fall in love with her. In the meantime Howie, who wants to teach CN a humiliating lesson, hires a highly trained foreign fighter to beat him.
Shangjun Cai
Yi'nan Diao
Fendou Liu
Peter Loehr (story)
Yang Zhang
'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. Until the couple's wedding at the end of the film, 'Aiqing mala tang' intermittently shows six different episodes about different generations' relationships. Love can be sweet, sour, or spicy. And, you'll taste all those emotions from this contemporary Chinese film 'Aiqing mala tang'.
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