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The Wedding Banquet

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The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 comedy-drama directed by Ang Lee, a Taiwan-United States co-production shot in Mandarin Chinese and English. It follows a gay Taiwanese immigrant in Manhattan who arranges a marriage of convenience with a mainland Chinese woman to satisfy his traditional parents and secure her a green card, a plan complicated when his parents fly in to plan an elaborate wedding banquet and he must hide his relationship with his male partner. At the 1993 Berlin International Film Festival it shared the Golden Bear for best film with Xie Fei's Woman Sesame Oil Maker. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Chinese 1
Award
Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film 1
Release Year
1993 1
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  • The Wedding Banquet, Description, original language
    The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 comedy-drama directed by Ang Lee, a Taiwan-United States co-production shot in Mandarin Chinese and English.
  • Wikipedia category, checked 2026-09-27
    Category:Best Feature Film Golden Horse Award winners
  • Article lead sentence
    The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 romantic comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Ang Lee.
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