Chan is Missing
Chan is Missing
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A mystery set against the backdrop of San Francisco's Chinatown. The story involves two Chinese taxi drivers who are looking for their business partner, Chan Hung, a middle-aged Taiwan immigrant who has vanished with their money. Their search for clues to Chan''s whereabouts leads them to his family, friends and acquaintances, who reveal a great diversity of people and cultural backgrounds that make up life in Chinatown. "[A] whimsical treasure of a film" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). In English and Cantonese with English subtitles.

Wayne Wang---USA---1981---80 mins.

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   | JohnH#1

I wondered if I were watching a spoof of a Raymond Chandler mystery: lots of plot twists, dead ends, wheels within wheels involving a search, like Moose looking for his Velma? It also reminded me of another low budget indie production, The search for one-eyed Jimmy. Neither film had a resolution. All that being said, I suspect that the film's main purpose was to reveal and comment upon Chinese- American society:its political differences, generation gap, aspirational gaps, interactions with other Asian immigrant groups, all done deftly, biting without malice.

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   | Hedges#1

Indepedent film made on a shoestring in San Francisco's Chinatown with a non professional cast; it began a directing career for Wayne Wang. It's interesting to see a Yank film with all Chinese actors (many of them second generation Americans) talking and cussing like Anglos. References to Charlie Chan movies are all too true, even though many non Chinese still love them. This movie's seemingly tailor made for art situations like the Gene Siskel Film Center and, of course, Facets.

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