1124 - Chan is Missing (1982)
Random Acts of Cinema
English - May 01, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 66.1 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsVisual Arts Arts TV & Film criterion movies cinema film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Joe and Steve hit the pavement of San Francisco’s Chinatown and beyond, searching through a tapestry of Asian-American identities for a business partner who has run off with their money… or has he? Wayne Wang’s stripped-bare noir is less of an homage and more of an exploration of what it means to be an immigrant in a society that demands assimilation and refuses to accept.
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