02-04-2022, 11:03 PM
What I hoped might be one of the feature films was in fact, the Chinese remake of the series. I watched the first ep.
It ruins what the original did. There's 9 eps at 45 mins each, way too long, and it seems to be a continuous story across the series instead of stand alone eps with some carry over story arcs.
The food is lame. Master is 'laoban' meaning 'boss'. He has a scar but is nowhere near the stoic cook from the original. This ep has him meticulously preparing an American style hamburger and fries. srsly?
Some of the other characters are echoed - the cop, the yakuza and his flunky, the old regular dude who's swapped his lid for a bucket hat.
There's some beautiful cinematography. It's a port town but it doesn't have that red light district seedy underbelly like Shinjuku. The first ep had a dark turn - a rather brutal hurt child scene - it almost engaged me but then it got sappy in that PRC way.
YouTube has the whole series in good definition with subs, but I doubt I'll watch more of it.
It ruins what the original did. There's 9 eps at 45 mins each, way too long, and it seems to be a continuous story across the series instead of stand alone eps with some carry over story arcs.
The food is lame. Master is 'laoban' meaning 'boss'. He has a scar but is nowhere near the stoic cook from the original. This ep has him meticulously preparing an American style hamburger and fries. srsly?
Some of the other characters are echoed - the cop, the yakuza and his flunky, the old regular dude who's swapped his lid for a bucket hat.
There's some beautiful cinematography. It's a port town but it doesn't have that red light district seedy underbelly like Shinjuku. The first ep had a dark turn - a rather brutal hurt child scene - it almost engaged me but then it got sappy in that PRC way.
YouTube has the whole series in good definition with subs, but I doubt I'll watch more of it.
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