East Asian Lead Movies

Nai Nai follows the story of a Chinese immigrant grandmother, Chu-Ming Wu. Known as “Nai Nai,” Chu-Ming has always been a woman of...

Renee Tajima-Peña takes to the road to investigate questions about Asian-American identity.

When a Chinese-Canadian college student returns home to Toronto, she visits a Hong Kong cafe she frequented during her childhood. Through eating the...

In 1975, a seven-months pregnant Vietnamese refugee, Giap, escapes Saigon in a boat and, within weeks, finds herself working on an assembly line in...

AMERICAN SONS is a provocative examination of how racism shapes the lives of Asian American men. A simple but compelling performance piece featuring...

A general is instructed to impersonate Song Yuan and infiltrate the Shen household to intercept military intelligence. In order to do this, she must...

A filmmaker explores the life of her 100-year-old great-aunt, Jane Chung, an actress who made a career for herself at a time when Asian Americans...

They try to uncover the secret behind the three mysterious eggs.

Lies upon lies, a scorned lover decides to take revenge.

Genral Hua rescues a little beggar maid.

Shasha, a long-haired heterosexual girl, was accidentally brought into the sensory world between girls by the short-haired girl Yuzi. All of this...

A talented young painter disguises herself as a boy. She finds herself a darling muse to which she starts to fall for.

She who plays all day long, either being lazy or stealing food, it is impossible to practice well... And then she who seems to be strict, but is, in...

The Fall of the I-Hotel brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction of the International Hotel's tenants culminated a...

In this independent drama, Dave and Mark are two buddies who have recently graduated from high school in Watsonville, California. Dave works in a...

A Yakuza hitman travels to North America for his 27th job, only to find lingering memories of lost love through a chance encounter with a beautiful...