# Pandemic-Era Longing to Gather Fed Qiu Jiongjiong’s Tokyo Competition Title ‘Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/pandemic-era-longing-to-gather-fed-qiu-jiongjiongs-tokyo-competition-title-fuxi-four-tales-of-feasting/
- Published: 2026-11-01T00:46:15+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-01T01:39:37+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/pandemic-longing-gather-tokyo-competition-title-fuxi-1236936421/
- Topics: Art, Culture

## Key points

- Qiu’s Tokyo competition film centres on meals and gathering.
- Four stories link different eras through food.
- The cast worked with coaches to speak Sichuan’s Leshan dialect.

## Summary

Qiu Jiongjiong’s film “Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting”, shaped by the pandemic-era desire to gather and share meals, is competing at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Across four fantastical stories set in different eras, it uses food to explore life, death and the relationship between individual lives and the wider universe.

The film is spoken entirely in the Leshan dialect of Sichuan province, which Taiwanese actors Lee Kang-sheng and Lee Hong-chi learned with help from dialect coaches. Lee Kang-sheng plays two elderly women, while Lee Hong-chi portrays Song dynasty poet Su Dongpo. “Fuxi” is Qiu’s first feature with professional actors and follows his earlier film “A New Old Play”; an exhibition connected to the film is running at Chengdu’s A4 Art Museum until 31 January.

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