![]() ![]() Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. CAST: Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen. Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen Gods Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetters Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, Saving Fish from. Hiring white performers in yellowface was off-limits, and the film boasts an ensemble cast of trailblazing Asian American actors from two generations: veteran actresses Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, and France Nuyen portrayed the mothers, while Rosalind Chao, Tamlyn Tomita, Lauren Tom, and Ming-Na Wen played the daughters. However, June took her mother Suyuan’s place in the club when her mother died. Clair, An-Mei Hsu, and Suyuan Woo, bond over mahjong and their stories. These four Chinese women members of the club, Lindo Jong, Ying-Ying St. Based on Amy Tan’s novel about mother/daughter relationships, The Joy Luck Club was guided by Tan as co-producer and co-writer and Janet Yang as executive producer, with auteur Wayne Wang directing what became his pivot into mainstream studio filmmaking. The Joy Luck Club is a story between two generations of Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. ![]() In the history of Hollywood studio films, only a handful have centered on contemporary Chinese American characters and cast with mostly Asian actors: Flower Drum Song (1961), The Joy Luck Club (1993), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), The Farewell (2019), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). The Joy Luck Club isand isn’tautobiographical. ![]()
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