The Recipe (film)

The Recipe (Korean: 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.

The Recipe
Film poster
Directed byAnna Lee
Produced byKim Jin-young
Written byAnna Lee
Jang Jin
Starring
Music byHan Jae-gwon
CinematographyNa Hui-seok
Edited byKim Sang-bum
Kim Jae-bum
Production
company
Film It Suda
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release date
  • October 21, 2010 (2010-10-21)
Running time
107 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$293,898[1]

Plot

Jang Hye-jin (Lee Yo-won) is an ordinary woman whose doenjang jjigae (soybean paste soup) is to die for but only very few have tried it. They claimed the scent alone was so heavenly it was as if all around didn't matter.

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. While looking, Chou Yoo-jin discovers how police were only able to catch the killer due to him walking into a kitchen with the doenjang jjigae cooking. The killer was so captivated by the stew he didn't even notice the police arriving to arrest him. The scent also froze the police until a chill breeze blew it away. They waited for the killer to finish before arresting but wondered what it must have tasted like.

Jang is no where to be found and upon Choi's journey he learns she died while searching for her love, Kim Hyun-soo (Lee Dong-wook) but hopes to discover the recipe.

Cast
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.[2]

References
  1. "Dwenjang (Doenjang) (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
  2. Lee, Sang-yong. "The Recipe". BIFF.kr. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
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