MBC Interactive Archive Project: Chan Is Missing
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MBC Interactive Archive Project:“AMERICAN INDIES OF THE 1980s”2021 RESTORED RE-RELEASE!(Presented by the Miami Beach Film Society)In one of the genuinely “indie” socio-comedies of the 1980s, Chinese American Wayne Wang light-heartedly tells the story of “ABC’s” (American-born Chinese) and “FOBs” (“fresh off the boat”) and their allegiances to either Mainland China or Taiwan—with Jo (Wood Moy), a middle aged Chinese -American cabdriver in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and his young colleague Steve (Marc Hayashi). Coming from different areas and different generations, they have a very different idea of cultural identity and how to solve the mystery of a missing $4000. Wayne Wang's career was built on this charming stand out film debut, now being re-discovered in an official and deserved 2021 re-release from Strand Releasing.