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Spicy Love Soup is a film of genre Drama directed by Zhang Yang with Lü Liping
Spicy Love Soup (1997)
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Add to a movie listSpicy Love Soup () 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. Spicy Love Soup was produced by Loehr's Imar Film Company, Xi'an Film Studio, and Taiwanese financing.
The film is Zhang's directorial debut and would prove to be a launching pad for those both in front and behind the cameras. Screenwriters Cai Shangjun (The Red Awn) and Diao Yi'nan (Uniform, Night Train) have since gone on to direct their own films, while Liu Fendou has expanded into both directing (Green Hat) and film production (Zhang Yibai's Spring Subway). The cast is also notable for the debuts of two of China's most popular actresses, Gao Yuanyuan and Xu Jinglei.
The film is an anthology of sorts, and tells its story of love and life in modern Beijing through a series of five vignettes.
Spicy Love Soup was, in addition, the first film in mainland China to see a simultaneous release of a soundtrack, consisting largely of contemporary pop songs.
Actors
Lü Liping
(Wife seeking divorce)
Gao Yuanyuan
(Schoolgirl)
Guo Tao
(Yu Xiaohui)
Xu Fan (徐帆)
(Chen Jing)
Pu Cunxin
(Husband seeking divorce)
Shao Bing
(Photographer)
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