The Recipe (film)

The Recipe
Film poster
Directed by Anna Lee
Produced by Kim Jin-young
Written by Anna Lee
Jang Jin
Starring
Music by Han Jae-gwon
Cinematography Na Hui-seok
Edited by Kim Sang-bum
Kim Jae-bum
Production
company
Film It Suda
Distributed by CJ Entertainment
Release date
  • October 21, 2010 (2010-10-21)
Running time
 107 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean
Box office US$293,898[1]

The Recipe (Hangul: 된장; RR: Doenjang; literally "Soybean paste") is a 2010 South Korean film about a television producer who finds out many surprising truths while tracking down the story about a mysterious bean paste stew. Behind the captivating taste lies a woman’s unfortunate life and love story.

Plot

Jang Hye-jin (Lee Yo-won) is an ordinary woman whose doenjang jjigae (soybean paste soup) is to die for. Yet Jang is not famous for her recipe and lives a quiet life.

When a notorious murderer on death row requests Jang’s soup as his last meal, television producer Choi Yoo-jin (Ryu Seung-ryong) starts looking for Jang and the recipe. But Choi is not the only one looking for Jang.

Kim Hyun-soo (Lee Dong-wook), Jang’s old flame, decides to return to his hometown to look for his first love. At the same time, three people die after eating Jang’s soup. What is the secret behind the soup and how many more people will have to die for it?[2]

Cast

  • Lee Yong-nyeo as Han Myung-suk
Owner of mountainside restaurant
  • Kim Jung-suk as Detective Kang
  • Yu Seung-mok as Kim Deuk-gu
  • Nam Jeong-hee
Grandmother
  • Kim Se-dong
Blind man
  • Park Hye-jin
Owner of Soondae Soup restaurant
  • Yoo Soon-woong
Salt farm owner
  • Lee Sang-hee
Owner of small store in the countryside

Production

Twelve years after her last film, Rub Love, director Anna Lee mixes two different genres - the thriller and the love story. The English title, The Recipe, contains a lot of meaning: a record of a person’s life, a memory of taste, an experience of loss and a chronicle of hurts. In this sense, the film is a recipe for everything. Lee illustrates the obsession with memories of love and a fatalistic point of view. The soybean soup recipe contains pain, longing and salvation. In a sense, the recipe is the very history of Korea’s memory and tradition.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Dwenjang (Doenjang) (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
  2. ↑ "2010.10.22 NOW PLAYING". Korea JoongAng Daily. 22 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
  3. ↑ Lee, Sang-yong. "The Recipe". BIFF.kr. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
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