Eat a Bowl of Tea

Eat a Bowl of Tea

Infobox Film
name = Eat a Bowl of Tea


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director = Wayne Wang
producer = Tom Sternberg
writer = Judith Rascoe
starring = Cora Miao
Russel Wong
Victor Wong
Siu-Ming Lau
Eric Tsang
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released =
runtime = 103 minutes
country = USA
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imdb_id = 0097261

"Eat a Bowl of Tea" is a 1989 film directed by Wayne Wang based on a novel by Louis Chu

It is a Chinese romantic film starring Cora Miao, Russell Wong, Victor Wong, Siu-Ming Lau and Eric Tsang.

Plot

The story begins with exposition of the difficult lives of the first generation of male Chinese-American immigrants who were not allowed to bring their wives and families with them into the United States due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. For decades, these immigrant men have not seen their families they had left back in China. Ben (Russell Wong) is the son of one these immigrants and has just finished serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Due to the G.I. Bill, he is allowed to bring a bride back from China which he does after an arranged marriage. Mei Oi (Cora Miao), the bride, besides being attracted to Ben also wants to see her father in the U.S., who emigrated to the states before she was born. As one of the first couples of child-bearing age within Chinatown, Ben and Mei Oi have to deal with the expectations of the entire Chinatown community as well as his father (Victor Wong).


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