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...

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...

Chink is about an Asian American man who has internalized the racism he felt as a child and turned it into a hatred of all Asians – including...

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...

Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of...

Being educated and knowing how drink, A-Ni is seen as the town's madwoman. Yulu is entranced by her.

A documentary that explores the increasing visibility of Asian Americans in pop culture since the advent of new media forms such as YouTube.

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

Everyone is happy for rising Asian American actor GQ Qi – the network, his mother, his best friend – everyone except GQ himself....

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly...

Justin is a troubled teen looking for a way out of the gang life. His best friend Charlie is a rich Taiwanese kid who lives in the nice part of town....

High school girls who were performing a love charm accidentally summon an evil spirit. Rie, a first-year student at a certain high school, harbors a...

Yeon-Seo (Yang Ha-Eun) majors in music at an university. She travels to Seoul to meet her older sister Jin-Seo. When she arrives at her sister's...

1935 Los Angeles, community leader Sei Fujii uncovers the corrupt activities of his community's underground mafia. He must choose between saving the...

"...Or Die”, directed by Gregory Bonsignore and John Petaja, satirizes the obstacles today's South Asian Hollywood actors have to deal with.

Following a tumultuous breakup, a young college student tries to win back her ex-girlfriend by performing in a confessional-style poetry slam.

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...

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

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

Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has...