The Dumpling Queen

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The Dumpling Queen

2025

1h 59m

Drama

Biography

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Follows Zang Jianhe, a single mom who created one of Hong Kong's biggest food companies.

Casey Chong

Casey's Movie Mania

May 15

3/5

A stellar Ma Li leads Andrew Lau's otherwise formulaic biopic of the late Wanchai Ferry founder.

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

May 3

The Dumpling Queen is a formulaic biopic about entrepreneur Zang Jianhe that is neither great nor terrible. Uneven film editing spends too much or too little time on certain areas of her life story. Ma Li's admirable performance is the movie's best asset.

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Edmund Lee

South China Morning Post

May 1

2.5/5

The inspiring true story behind the founding of an iconic Hong Kong food brand receives a largely uninspired retelling in The Dumpling Queen, a glossy if unabashedly melodramatic and run-of-the-mill biopic.

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May 9

Entertaining. I enjoyed the nostalgic Hong Kong background.

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May 7

Good film which has valuable life lessons to never give up and make a better life for yourself, so I do think its worth a watch. However, as someone else here stated, it has cheesy moments with music and frequent slow motion effects, which gives off soap opera vibes throughout. Some of the acting is overdone, as well. Overall, I loved the character casting choices and the theme. Yes, the grandmother lady is awesome. Hope this film positively-inspires whoever watches it!

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May 6

Good to see historical 1970s Hong Kong Wan Chai Pier. Mix of Mandarin and Cantonese dialogues.

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May 5

What a beautiful story of resilience and determination in the face of adversity

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May 5

It's a very good movie! Just some of the scenes were deleted.

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May 4

Incredibly moving. A must-see!!

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Synopsis

Follows Zang Jianhe, a single mom who created one of Hong Kong's biggest food companies.

Director: Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
Screenwriter: Jianv Han, Mengchu Zhang, Cindy Tang Hsin
Distributor: CMC Pictures
Production Co: Alibaba Pictures Group, Shanghai CMC Pictures, Tianjin Maoyan Weying Media
Genre: Drama, Biography
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Theaters): May 2, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 59m