
Rice Rhapsody
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The screenplay of "Rice Rhapsody" was awarded OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAY of 1999 by the Taiwan Government Information Office. The script has been published in Chinese.
It is the same award given to Ang Lee in 1993 for his internationally acclaimed The Wedding Banquet, and to director Chen Kuo-Fu for The Personals in 1997, which was a domestic box office success in Taiwan and also an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999. 3rd Pusan Promotion Plan at the 5th Pusan International Film Festival
Rice Rhapsody (original title: Hainan Chicken Rice) was selected by the Pusan Promotion Plan as an Official Project for PPP 2000. The humorous and heartwarming story of a single mother with three sons living in Singapore is one of 22 film projects chosen from 11 Asian countries. Some of the other prominent directors at PPP included Masato Harada, Shunji Iwai, Clara Law, Tsai Ming-Liang, Zhang Yuan, and Lou Ye. |
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