Victor Wong
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Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between filial duty and her desires.
2) Mystery date
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When shy Tom McHugh can't get up the nerve to ask his beautiful neighbor out, his suave brother Craig sets him all up and makes Tom over into a virtual image of himself. When Tom begins hitting all the hot spots with his dream date, however, he gets caught up in a mistaken identity crisis and the couple find themselves being pursued by a wicked crime lord, a crazy delivery man and a pair of crooked cops.
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A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...