A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.

The Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Gua Ah-leh is at the movie's centre: she shines as Lung's wife, who finds she has a thing or two to learn from the gigolo after Lung blithely. Lang Hisung plays old dentist for broad comedy he is sixty years old.

Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters, each involved with a performance of the opera Fleeing by Night in a local theatre.

一生只有一次的爱，便是一种纯粹的感情素食主义。
唐士哲（曾江 饰）是杭州城内远近驰名的大厨，不仅做得一手好菜，对两个女儿的要求也非常严苛：每周末家庭聚餐必不可少，而且餐桌上摆的一定是素菜。两个女儿唐瓦儿（霍思燕 饰）、唐小兰（蒋梦婕 饰）崇尚一切现代文化，无肉不欢的她们从来对这种家庭仪式都抱着敷衍的态度，对自己各自感情生活也一知半解。
唐瓦儿是典型的都市白领，经营着一家高级会所，跟游戏设计师张全（蓝正龙 饰）谈着一场姐弟恋。张全是一个典型的宅男，他所熟悉的世界是一个“一加一肯定会等于二”的程序世界，但这种简单直接的游戏规则在感情中却到处碰壁，让他不知所措。
张全的大妈白苹（归亚蕾 饰）外表风骚、讲话口没遮拦，但其实内心寂寞空虚。把张全视为亲生儿子的她，一心想谈成张全和瓦儿的婚事，因此自告奋勇去杭州撮合，没想到过程有如刘姥姥进大观园，正事没谈成却吹皱了一池春水，将瓦儿和张全的关系搞得雪上加霜。
张全和瓦儿面临分手，唐士哲突然宣布要关掉“好风水”菜馆。白苹误打误撞参加了唐士哲的餐厅关闭之前准备的最后的晚餐。谁料当最后一道菜上桌，却揭开了一段尘封了半个多世纪的往事，让所有人肝肠寸断。
爱情究竟是可有可无的点缀还是终其一生的渴求？于是在这场素食痴恋面前，几个年轻人也都找到了属于自己的爱，和属于自己的那道菜……

1997 film by Jacob Cheung

A visit to the photographer's returns the physical looks of a 70-year-old grandmother back to her 20s. Things get even stranger when his grandson asks her to join his band, and his best friend begins to fall for her.

剧版《重返20岁》由唐人影视出品，高林豹和徐惠康联合执导，韩东君、胡冰卿、归亚蕾、秦汉、姚星彤、张超和张雅钦等联袂主演。
该剧讲述了70岁的沈梦君和项大海在遭遇亲情和爱情的双重打击下，意外吃了一瓶“返老还童药”后变身为20岁的孟丽君和牛文正，之后两人在重返青春的旅途中追逐自我，救赎爱情并携手帮助孙女实现音乐梦想的故事 。

1994 film by Ang Lee

2006 film directed by Yin Li

青青（岳翎 饰）与小草（金铭 饰）都是命苦的女孩。青青被哥嫂逼迫嫁给老头当妾，小草则整天受到舅妈的辱骂，不敢受命运束缚的她们决定双双逃走，远赴扬州投靠小草的亲人海爷爷。路上遇到了愤世嫉俗的离家青年何世纬（马景涛 饰）。种种原因让他们决定结伴同行。他们到达了傅家庄后，因失去儿子哭瞎了眼睛的傅夫人（归亚蕾 饰）误以为何世纬是自己已经死去的儿子元凯，拼命不让世纬离开，出于同情与傅家妾侍的恳求，世纬决定暂时留下。多时的相处下众人之间的感情剧增，没想到一连串爱恨情愁发生后，小草的身世之谜渐渐浮出了水面，一幕幕新仇旧恨也不绝上演……

清朝末年，江南小镇。容家大太太（归亚蕾 饰）知道自己丈夫在城里与一个叫嫣红的交际花同居，而且老爷似乎没有回家的打算。这一切都是因为大太太多年无所出。为了让老爷回家，她看上了佃农的女儿秀禾（周迅 饰），因秀禾有着一张和自己年轻时一模一样的脸，决定用她来挽回老爷的欢心，同时令容家有后。然而接下来的事情谁都始料不及。容家小叔（黄磊 饰）与秀禾相爱，而且有了交欢的事实。当秀禾有喜的时候全家都喜乐无比，直到更惊人的真相出现——原来老爷是没有生育能力的，此时秀禾的怀孕成了最大的讽刺。

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.