Flavors of Youth

肆式青春

Three separate stories unfold across modern Chinese cities, linked by memory and the pull of the past. In Hunan and Beijing, a young man named Xiao Ming chases the taste of the San Xian rice noodles he ate with his grandmother as a boy. In Guangzhou, the sisters Yi Lin and Lulu strain against each other as a modeling career falters. In Shanghai, a man revisits a first love folded into the changing city. This anthology film is a Chinese-Japanese co-production from Haoliners Animation League and CoMix Wave Films.