This Week’s Film: Time
Cuisine: Korean

Synopsis: Ki-duk Kim directs this romantic thriller in which a young woman undergoes drastic cosmetic surgery to disguise her identity in an attempt to rekindle her relationship with her estranged boyfriend.

Join me throughout the week on Chopstick Cinema for a closer look at the food and the film. My film review will be posted at the end of the week, along with my Korean recipe.

This Week’s Film: Cherry Blossoms Cuisine: Japanese Synopsis: Family secrets are revealed when a terminally ill man and his wife travel to Berlin to visit their children. Join me throughout the week on Chopstick Cinema for a closer look at the food and the film. My film review will be posted at the end of [...]

This Week’s Film: Green Tea Cuisine: Chinese Synopsis: Opposites attract in a romantic tale that trespasses into the realm of the occult. Join me throughout the week on Chopstick Cinema for a closer look at the food and the film. My film review will be posted at the end of the week, along with my [...]

This Week’s Film: The Beach Cuisine: Thai Synopsis: Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this mystery thriller set in Thailand, where a secluded beach is home to a secret utopian community determined to keep itself hidden from the outside world. Join me throughout the week on Chopstick Cinema for a closer look at the food and the [...]

This Week’s Film: Provoked Cuisine: Indian Synopsis: Set in London and based on actual events, Provoked tells the story of Kiranjit, an Indian woman whose marriage to an abusive man leads to tragedy and controversy. Join me throughout the week on Chopstick Cinema for a closer look at the food and the film. My film [...]

This Week’s Film: Treeless Mountain Cuisine: Korean Synopsis: Two young girls are left in the gruff and negligent care of their alcoholic aunt while their mother goes to look for their father. With this sudden change in life as they know it, the two sisters must come to grips with the absence of their mother [...]

This Week’s Film: Noble House Cuisine: Hong Kong Noble House is based on the 1981 novel of the same name by James Clavell. At over 1,000 pages, the story takes place in Hong Kong over the course of a single week in November 1963. It tells the story of Ian Dunross, a business tycoon who [...]

This Week’s Film: Noble House Cuisine: Hong Kong Synopsis: Synopsis: Based on the novel by James Clavel, Pierce Brosnan stars as Ian Dunross, CEO of a powerful British-Asian trading company on the verge of a hostile takeover. In an effort to save his company, he must live on the edge of Hong Kong’s dark and [...]

This Week’s Film: Noble House Cuisine: Hong Kong Synopsis: Based on the novel by James Clavel, Pierce Brosnan stars as Ian Dunross, CEO of a powerful British-Asian trading company on the verge of a hostile takeover. In an effort to save his company, he must live on the edge of Hong Kong’s dark and dangerous [...]

This Week’s Film: Fleeing By Night Cuisine: Chinese Synopsis: This 1930s-era drama stars Lei Huang as an Chinese cellist destined for an arranged marriage to a Beijing bride, but chooses his own path instead to pursue a homosexual fascination with an opera singer. Join me throughout the week on Chopstick Cinema for a closer look [...]