Movies: Joan Chen

Dim Sum Take-Out shows how the heterogeneity and complexity of Asian American experiences can be erased. It was literally cut together from film that was shot for Dim Sum, which was conceived as a film about the ways in which five women of the Chines...

A child's-eye story of Shanghainese settlers in Xinjiang during the late Mao era....

A disillusioned and lonely young man working for a foreign trade company finds his enthusiasm for life revived when he meets a young woman who seems to reflect the ideals and ambitions he once had....

A disillusioned horticulturist Zi Ning starts a passionate, all-consuming romance with the middle-aged scholar Kou Yi....

When Seventeen was two, his father abandoned him at a hotel and died that same night. The boy was taken in by a wealthy couple from Beijing who raised him in luxury; until, years later, police reunited him with his birth mother. Forced to leave the o...

A young girl struggles to fix her family while stranded in Vegas over Christmas....

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