An 800 year old Chinese witch makes Dumplings that give the Fountain of Youth to paying clients. The active ingredient of the Dumplings presents a repugnant moral quandary as it appears that the more debauched that the clients gets to obtain her youth, the more potent that the ingredient needs to be. To be the most potent the ingredient needs to be alive and older. Contains a raucous sex scene that has the client's husband bonking the witch to add to the humiliation of the client's fear of aging. The final thrilling end comes as the client becomes fully debauched to the ultimate act of cannibalism worthy of Hannibal Lector. Stem cell transplants will never seem the same again.

I thought it was great! the movie sucked me in right away, a very well done film all together.Though i know many people that would not be able to handle this movie,I love it! If you can handle sick stuff it is worth watching.It gives a great comparison on how we treat the animals we eat,i appreciated that.Id watch it again. well written,well produced.The main actresses are amazing,and grow threw out the movie.The way this movie is filmed gives a very creepy cold yet artsy feel with vibrant colors and trippy camera angles.I thought a movie on this subject would be corny or just plain horrible acting,i was proved wrong.Half way through the movie i caught my self thinking this is so well done and i cant take my eyes off the screen.

In Hong Kong, Aunt Mei (Ling Bai) is a cook famous for her home-made rejuvenation dumplings, based on a millenarian recipe prepared with a mysterious ingredient that she brings directly from China. The former TV star Mrs. Li (Miriam Yeoung Chin Wah) visits Mei aiming her dumplings to recover her youth and become attractive again to her wolf husband Mr. Li (Tony Leung Ka Fai). Along the sessions, Mei tells Mrs. Li that she was a gynecologist in China with more than 30,000 abortions along ten years. When Mrs. Li requests an acceleration of the process, the opportunity comes when a fifteen years old teenager with a five months incestuous pregnancy comes with her mother and asks Mei to make an abortion.The bizarre "Gaau Ji" is a low budget Asian movie that Hollywood will never remake. The disturbing and gruesome story depicts an unpleasant theme, certainly a taboo for the American industry, and has excellent performances highlighting Ling Bai making the story totally believable. The Brazilian DVD prudently advises that this film contains strong scenes and is not recommended to pregnant women and sensitive persons, and I totally agree. However, it is highly recommended to audiences that expect to see the break of a taboo in Hollywoodian productions. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Escravas da Vaidade" ("Slaves of the Vanity")Note: On 28 December 2012 I saw a short version of this film again in an imported DVD ("3 Extremes", segment "Dumplings").

I am new to the Asia Extreme films (the first I saw was Oldboy). I enjoyed it because it evokes a sense of creepiness missing from American made films for a long time. Since I have only seen the short film version of the movie; I feel a bit disadvantaged to comment. That having been said, it was well acted and paced. I will be checking more of these out in the future as an alternative to the redundant "horror" being turned out by Hollywood. Spoiler (maybe).... I believe the woman's lengthened tongue in the final scene is meant to symbolize the monster that her vanity created rather than an actual mutation of her actual tongue.