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Movie

The Wedding Banquet (2025)
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★ 5.3 40 ratings
other title: 결혼 피로연 / 囍宴 …
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.

Movie

Ride with the Devil (1999)
Ride with the Devil
★ 7.4 79 ratings
李安 actor: 托比·马奎尔 / 斯基特·乌尔里奇 …
other title: 라이드 위드 데블 / シビル・ガン 楽園をください …
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave, and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive in an uncertain time. In a place without rules and redefine the meaning of bravery and honor.

Movie

Taking Woodstock (2009)
Taking Woodstock
★ 7.5 194 ratings
李安 actor: 迪米特利·马丁 / 艾美达·斯丹顿 …
other title: 테이킹 우드스탁 / Destino: Woodstock …
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

Movie

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
飲食男女
★ 9.3 1828 ratings
李安 actor: 郎雄 / 杨贵媚 …
other title: 饮食男女 / 飲食男女 …
Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.