For decades, San Francisco’s Chinatown was the largest community of Chinese outside Asia, and yet was a neighborhood forced to be independent, even isolated, from the rest of society. Its residents were barred from citizenship. Even so, over 150 years, Chinatown’s residents have managed to create a thriving community.
For decades, San Francisco’s Chinatown was the largest community of Chinese outside Asia, and yet was a neighborhood forced to be independent, even isolated, from the rest of society. Its residents were barred from citizenship. Even so, over 150 years, Chinatown’s residents have managed to create a thriving community.
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
Teenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.
Ruby, a Chinese American toy designer from LA, visits Hong Kong for the first time on business. Finding herself stranded, she meets Josh, an American expat who shows her the city.
เรื่องราวของคุณแม่ชาวจีน 4 คนที่ย้ายมาตั้งรกรากในอเมริกา อดีตของพวกเธอนั้นต่างก็เคยประสบพบเหตุการณ์เลวร้ายเมื่อวัยสาว ทีนี้เมื่อพวกเธอมีลูกสาว ในใจลึกๆ เลยอดห่วงไม่ได้ว่าลูกจะเจอประวัติศาสตร์แย่ๆ แบบสมัยรุ่นแม่มาซ้ำรอหรือไม่ แล้วก็มีปัญหาตามมาจริงๆ ครับ บางคู่ก็แม่ลูกไม่เข้าใจกันเพราะต่างฝ่ายต่างก็ไม่ยอมกันจนเกิดช่องว่างรูเบ่อเริ่ม บางคนลูกสาวอ่อนแอจนแม่ต้องปลุกความเข้มแข็งในตัวให้ฟื้นขึ้นมา ก่อนจะนำมาสู่บทสรุปลงเอยว่าแม่ลูกค่อยๆ เกิดความรู้สึกดีต่อกัน สานความเข้าใจกันได้ด้วยพลังแห่งความรักและสายใยที่ตัดกันไม่ขาด
A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the life of a child born at the moment of their deaths as his guardians. Baby Thomas grows up to be a businessman who has memories of his playmates, but assumes they are products of his youthful imagination. When the ghosts realize they need Thomas' help to move on to the afterlife, they decide to make an appearance once more.
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choices about what’s important to him.
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.