ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Final Recipe —a warmhearted story of cooking and families—directed by Gina Kim. Final Recipe is Gina Kim’s fifth feature-length film, which has garnered critical acclaims internationally. Final Recipe as a co-production film portrays an engaging and gently moving story of a family apart and finally reunited by a passion of food. The film starts with a grumpy and stubborn grandfather chef who wants to keep his old recipe instead of accommodating to modern taste, which initiated family integration. The chapter explains transnational co-production through in-depth interviews with director Gina Kim as well as a textual analysis of Final Recipe, which is one of the most pan-Asian co-productions. Gina Kim’s movies, including Final Recipe, are experimental partially because she has combined several concepts of sociocultural consciousness in that she has portrayed feminism, nomadism, and transnational identity with the forms of diaspora.
