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Ang Lee (writer)
James Schamus (writer)
Release Date:
20 January 1996 (Japan) more
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All the while, Master Chu tries to find his place in the foreign American world. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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Better than the Joy Luck Club more (9 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bin Chao | ... | Waiter Wong |
| Victor Chan | ... | Gangster |
| Lester Chit-Man Chan | ... | Chef Tsien |
| Fanny De Luz | ... | Linda |
| Audrey Haight | ... | Anchorwoman |
| Jackson King | ... | Gangster |
| Eugene Lau | ... | Gangster |
| Bar-Chya Lee | ... | Waiter Lee |
| Haan Lee | ... | Jeremy Chu |
| Peter Lee | ... | Waiter Wu |
| Yin Liang | ... | Chef Chang |
| Richard Light | ... | Gangster |
| Bill Lin | ... | Gangster |
| Emily Yi-Ming Liu | ... | Yi Ci |
| Jeanne Kuo Chang | ... | New Cooking Teacher |
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Also Known As:
Pushing Hands (International: English title)
Tuei shou (Taiwan) (alternative spelling)
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105 min
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Finland:K-7 (2006) | South Korea:12
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Pushing Hands is Ang Lee's beautiful film about an elderly Chinese man transplanted into his son's American home. While most films about this subject, which for some reason critics like to call "East meets West", hyperbolize the struggles that immigrant Chinese must face, Pushing Hands tends to focus on minutia instead. For example, the elderly grandfather does not know that tin foil cannot be put into the microwave, which leads to a scolding by his caucasian daughter-in-law. All the conflict in the film is grounded in the real world, as opposed to some very abstract 'generational conflict'. Because of this I found this film to be much more rewarding than most other films about Asian-Americans. A must-see for Chinese-Americans and Caucasians alike. Personally, I'd like to watch it with my Chinese grandparents.
Listen for James Schamus's cameo as the voice on the answering machine at the beginning of the film.