Miss Chinatown juxtaposes the views of eight subjects against the background image of a beauty pageant: the Miss Chinese-Vancouver 1996. The subjects are all full or part ethnic Chinese, together they represent a diverse face of the Chinese-Canadian community, they present different perspectives on identity, home, sex and race. The contestants are seen going through the paces in the cheong-san (traditional side slit dress) segment of the live television spectacle.
Miss Chinatown juxtaposes the views of eight subjects against the background image of a beauty pageant: the Miss Chinese-Vancouver 1996. The subjects are all full or part ethnic Chinese, together they represent a diverse face of the Chinese-Canadian community, they present different perspectives on identity, home, sex and race. The contestants are seen going through the paces in the cheong-san (traditional side slit dress) segment of the live television spectacle.
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.
A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.
Teenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.
เรื่องราวของคุณแม่ชาวจีน 4 คนที่ย้ายมาตั้งรกรากในอเมริกา อดีตของพวกเธอนั้นต่างก็เคยประสบพบเหตุการณ์เลวร้ายเมื่อวัยสาว ทีนี้เมื่อพวกเธอมีลูกสาว ในใจลึกๆ เลยอดห่วงไม่ได้ว่าลูกจะเจอประวัติศาสตร์แย่ๆ แบบสมัยรุ่นแม่มาซ้ำรอหรือไม่ แล้วก็มีปัญหาตามมาจริงๆ ครับ บางคู่ก็แม่ลูกไม่เข้าใจกันเพราะต่างฝ่ายต่างก็ไม่ยอมกันจนเกิดช่องว่างรูเบ่อเริ่ม บางคนลูกสาวอ่อนแอจนแม่ต้องปลุกความเข้มแข็งในตัวให้ฟื้นขึ้นมา ก่อนจะนำมาสู่บทสรุปลงเอยว่าแม่ลูกค่อยๆ เกิดความรู้สึกดีต่อกัน สานความเข้าใจกันได้ด้วยพลังแห่งความรักและสายใยที่ตัดกันไม่ขาด
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy?
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.
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
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.
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.