IMDb > Tui shou (1992)

Overview

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Director:

Ang Lee

Writers:

Ang Lee (writer)
James Schamus (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

20 January 1996 (Japan) more

Genre:

Comedy | Drama more

Plot:

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

User Comments:

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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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Pushing Hands (International: English title)
Tuei shou (Taiwan) (alternative spelling)
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Runtime:

105 min

Country:

Taiwan

Language:

Mandarin | English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Finland:K-7 (2006) | South Korea:12


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15 out of 17 people found the following comment useful.
Better than the Joy Luck Club, 19 February 2001
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Author: Matador from NYC, New York

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.

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