<Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> Mandarin </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $7.2 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Eat Drink Man Woman is a 1994 Taiwanese film directed by Ang Lee and starring Sihung Lung, Yu - wen Wang, Chien - lien Wu, and Kuei - mei Yang . The film was released on August 3, 1994, the first of Lee's films to be both a critical and box office success . In 1994, the film received the Asia Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Film, and in 1995 it received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film . </P> <P> The title is a quote from the Book of Rites, one of the Confucian classics, referring to the basic human desires and accepting them as natural . The beginning of the quote reads as follows: "The things which men greatly desire are comprehended in meat and drink and sexual pleasure; (...)" (Translation by James Legge), Chinese: 「 飲食 男女, 人 之 大 欲 存 焉 」 . </P>

Chinese movie about a chef and his daughters