Evelyn Wang je zaskrbljena lastnica propadajoče pralnice. Zdravje njenega očeta je v slabem stanju, mož Waymond ji vroči ločitvene dokumente, hčerka Joy je zelo razočarana z življenjem. Na koncu se pojavi še neusmiljena delavka davčne uprave Deirdre. Potem, ko Evelyn poskuša še zadnjič rešiti svoj posel, Waymondovo telo nenadoma obsede dvojnik iz ene od skoraj neskončnih alternativnih resničnosti. Pove ji, da je edina oseba, ki lahko reši multiverzum pred grožnjo, ki uničuje resničnost. Evelyn pa mora še vedno plačati davke.
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.
A government agent investigates a ring that is smuggling Chinese aliens across the border from Mexico. His investigation takes him to the Grand Canyon. He finds a dazed girl wandering around who has become separated from her companions and is lost. He and the girl are soon found by her companions - the smuggling ring!
Kitajski kuharski mojster Čeng se po ženini smrti s sinom pojavi na finskem podeželju. Tam naj bi se dobil s starim prijateljem, ki ga je spoznal v Šanghaju. A prijatelja ni od nikoder, Čenga pa premaguje nestrpnost, ker nima ne denarja ne strehe nad glavo. Lastnica vaške gostilne Sirkka Čengu in njegovemu sinu ponudi topel obrok in sobo. Čeng ji v zahvalo pomaga skuhati kosilo in z njim navduši redne stranke. Gostilna postane turistična senzacija, Čeng in Sirkka se zaljubita, Čengov sin pa je po dolgem času spet srečen. Čengu bo kmalu potekel turistični vizum, zato mu vasica priskoči na pomoč.
Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a “flower girl” in America, where she meets Tom, an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss seeking to extend his power into America, theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States – a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food and a search for everlasting love – set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, in 1871.
An immigrant love story set on a street corner.
LIANG HUAN is a young man with a Chinese mother and a Spanish father who grew up in the suburbs of Barcelona. He makes a living giving as a kung fu teacher and dealing with his neighborhood friends: PARDALES, a thief by profession who is like a cat with nine lives, and TRACAS, a drug dealer who is dim-witted, but with a big heart. Liang's great love is PEI LAN, a beautiful and mysterious student who attends his classes. What LIANG doesn't know is that Pei Lan is the daughter of SOONG, head of the Chinese mafia in Barcelona, whom she hopes to succeed one day. In order to get Pardales out of his regular prison visits, Liang acts as a confidant of MONTSE GELABERT, a police inspector who is after the Chinese mafia for having killed her family years ago.
Tells the story of Larry and Trudie Long, a popular Asian American nightclub act of the '40s and '50s, told through the eyes of their daughter, actress Jodi Long.
An elderly Chinese immigrant woman strongly desires to return to her hometown in China.
When Sangchan and Rawee meet and fall in love the day before he leaves to study abroad, he promises to return on October 8th of every year to see her. As the years pass and new relationships arise, Sangchan's faith in their love is tested.
What does it feel like to be a stranger in a country that you’ve lived in for twenty years? Two rootless and tenacious Chinese immigrants, Quan and Fen, try to find a home in each other on foreign soil.
A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland.
An observational portrait of the California Chinese community through the eyes of a Chinese restaurant in Monterey Park and an LA-based recent graduate trying to navigate the difficulties of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Long Tack Sam was an internationally renowned Chinese acrobat and magician. He overcame isolation, poverty, cultural and linguistic barriers, extreme racism and world wars to become one of the most successful vaudeville acts of his time. His showmanship was unrivalled, yet he refused to appear in movies because of the way Chinese were portrayed at the time. A celebration of the spirit of Long Tack Sam's magic and art, this richly textured first person road movie is an exhilarating testament to his legacy and a prismatic tour through the 20th Century. It all begins in a small village in China...
https://www.nfb.ca/film/the_magical_life_of_long_tack_sam/
Disputed with his father, Jay does everything he can to adapt himself to the city life as an immigrant.
Growing up, I heard many tales of my grandmother's life, before she was known as Mimo, and each narrative she told stuck with me and still impact my thinking to this day. I wanted to celebrate Mimo's wisdom and character, as well as capture the extraordinary within the ordinary. Hopefully I can inspire others to reflect on their own relationships with their elders and the untold stories that shaped their lives.
Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal sets out to cross the generational divide, confronting long-simmering tensions with her Chinese immigrant mother by literally becoming her. Dressing in her mom’s iconic St John Knit power suits and re-creating her 1980s local TV cooking show, Stephanie becomes Beta-Florence, a radical reinterpretation of Asian-American identity.
