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Hunger

2023 · 2h 25m · Drama

TMDB 7.2/10 (494 votes)

A talented young street-food cook pushes herself to the limit after accepting an invitation to train under an infamous and ruthless chef.

Directed by Sitisiri Mongkolsiri

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Hunger is a 2023 Thai drama film directed by Sitisiri Mongkolsiri and written by Kongdej Jaturanrasamee. It stars Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying as Aoy, a street-food cook who is invited to join the fine-dining industry under the tutelage of the infamous Chef Paul, played by Nopachai Jayanama, with Gunn Svasti as Tone, a supportive sous chef. The film was announced by Netflix in 2022 as one of its six upcoming Thai original productions, and was released on the platform in April 2023. The film received mostly positive reviews, with an 87 percent rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The Bangkok Post reviewer Tatat Bunnag criticized the screenplay and dialogue, but concluded that "despite all the flaws, Hunger is still worth watching, especially for those who love intense drama and exotic settings." Plot summary Cast Nopachai Chaiyanam as Chef Paul Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying as Aoy Alex Gravenstein as Tone (voice) Chimwemwe Miller as Paul (voice) Gunn Svasti Na Ayudhya as Tone Majid Sajadi as Food Taster Bhumibhat Thavornsiri as Au Kenneth Won as Party Guest References

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“The slippers of the mortal Earth, Now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, It is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.”
— Manmohan Acharya .
“FAO’s most recent estimates put the number of hungry people at 923 million in 2007, an increase of more than 80 million since the 1990–92 base period.”
— Food and Agriculture Organization Economic and Social Development Department. "The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2008 : High food prices and food security - threats and opportunities". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008, p.2.
“New cottonseed processes ... can produce high protein concentrates containing little or none of the poisonous pigment . All of the processes use a variety of chemical solvents... to sidestep the need for protein-destroying heat which was used in earlier processes.”
— John F. Henahan, Men and Molecules (1966)
“Today 850 million people are hungry and malnourished. Over half of them are children. 18,000 children die every single day because of hunger and malnutrition.”
— James Morris, as reported in "18,000 children die every day of hunger, U.N. says", USA Today, (February 17, 2007).
“A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.”
— Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen (1598).
“Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.”
— James Thomson, The Seasons, Winter (1726), line 393.

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Notable quotes

“The slippers of the mortal Earth, Now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, It is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.”
— Manmohan Acharya .
“FAO’s most recent estimates put the number of hungry people at 923 million in 2007, an increase of more than 80 million since the 1990–92 base period.”
— Food and Agriculture Organization Economic and Social Development Department. "The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2008 : High food prices and food security - threats and opportunities". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008, p.2.
“New cottonseed processes ... can produce high protein concentrates containing little or none of the poisonous pigment . All of the processes use a variety of chemical solvents... to sidestep the need for protein-destroying heat which was used in earlier processes.”
— John F. Henahan, Men and Molecules (1966)
“Today 850 million people are hungry and malnourished. Over half of them are children. 18,000 children die every single day because of hunger and malnutrition.”
— James Morris, as reported in "18,000 children die every day of hunger, U.N. says", USA Today, (February 17, 2007).
“A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.”
— Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen (1598).
“Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.”
— James Thomson, The Seasons, Winter (1726), line 393.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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