Seafood (film)

Seafood simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Hixin is a 2001 Chinese film directed by the established writer Zhu Wen. Though Seafood was Zhus first film as director, he had already gained some experience with filmmaking as a screenwriter for Zhang Ming in 1996s Rain Clouds over Wushan and Zhang Yuan in 1999s Seventeen Years. Seafood was produced independently by Thought Dance Entertainment and Zhus own Zhu Wen Workshop.

Zhang Xiaomei Jin Ze, is a prostitute living in Beijing. When relationship problems with her boyfriend erupt, she flees to the resort city of Beidaihe and takes a room in a small hotel where she contemplates committing suicide. There she meets a young poet. The next morning, she wakes and learns that the poet has slit his wrists.When the police arrive, she meets Deng Jianguo Cheng Taisheng, a middleaged officer who questions her over the poets death. Their relationship soon grows increasingly complicated as Deng learns of Xiaomeis plans to commit suicide. Over the course of several days, he takes her to eat seafood dinners, extolling the virtues and health benefits of the diet, including a claim that it makes him a more potent lover. When Xiaomei tries to commit suicide in a nearby town, she is thwarted by Deng who brings her back to Beidaihe and proceeds to rape her. ........

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