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Fagara

Across Asia • 1h 57m

Directed by Heiward Mak • Drama • With Sammi Cheng, Li Xiaofeng, Megan Lai, Wu Yanshu, Liu Juei Chi, Richie Jen, Andy Lau, Kenny Bee • 2019 • 118 minutes

In the wake of her father’s death, a woman discovers two distant sisters she knows little about. But with her own relationship uncertain and the future of her departed father’s hot pot restaurant in question, she reaches out to them. She finds that while their upbringing is different, they too have experienced similar trials and tribulations in their past. Her sister from the Mainland is pressured by her elderly grandmother to get married; her sister from Taiwan is plagued by a toxic relationship with her mother. Together, they’ll strive to find happiness, love and peace in their father’s death that he was unable to provide during his life.

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cantonese, china lion film, chinese, cooking, drama, fagara, family, hot pot, mandarin, mothers, narrative, ovid, relationships, sisters

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