The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

  • Director: Wayne Wang
  • Writer: Amy Tan,Ronald Bass
  • Countries of origin: United States, China
  • Language: English, Mandarin, Cantonese
  • Release date: October 29, 1993
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: 喜福會
  • "The Joy Luck Club" is a drama film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na Wen , Tsai Chin , Faye Yu , Lisa Lu , Rosalind Chao , and Vivian Wu . The total length of the film is 139 minutes, with Cantonese , English and Mandarin Chinese. It was released in the United States on September 8, 1993.
    The film tells the life twists and turns of the four women who immigrated to the United States from mainland China on the eve of liberation, as well as the psychological separation, emotional conflicts, and grievances between them and their American-born daughters.

    Details

    • Release date October 29, 1993
    • Filming locations 610 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco, California, USA
    • Production companies Hollywood Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $11,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $32,901,136

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $159,009

    Gross worldwide

    $32,901,136

    Movie reviews

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    • By Kirk 2022-04-24 07:01:22

      inherited

      I will have a daughter in America

      no one will despise her

      Because she speaks fluent English

      She has no worries of food and clothing, no need to endure humiliation

      She will understand my pain

      I will give her this swan

      Remember that sad word

      at the age of four

      I cried and hugged into your arms

      how do i try

      can't get your favor

      Losing him is no big deal

      And you will be cherished by others

      I think it's female...

    • By Vergie 2022-04-24 07:01:22

      eternal mother-daughter relationship

      The Joy Luck Club, a Hollywood movie based on a novel written by Amy Tan, a Chinese-American woman, brought tears to my eyes. Four families, two generations of women (even three generations), all tell the story of mother and daughter.

      The mother-daughter relationship is an eternal topic. Women are relatively emotional, and mothers and daughters are both the closest people, and they can easily become the people who hurt each other the most. It is said that the daughter...

    • By Izaiah 2022-04-23 07:03:55

      All of us likes stairs

      A very impressive line, when Anuty Anmei saw her daughter sacrifice her self-worth in marriage to please and compromise, she told her about how her mother committed suicide when she was in China because she did not realize her worth. Listening words: I tell you the story because I was raised in Chinese way. I was told to desire nothing , to swallow other people's misery , and to eat my own bitterness. Even though I tought my daughter the opposite , still ,she came up the same way. All of us...

    • By Kirstin 2022-04-23 07:03:55

      joy and luck

      I hope you take the ardent hope of your family, glide on the wind and dance the most special arc.

      They go to great lengths to teach you life lessons, not for you to be another of them, to take over their unfulfilled dreams, to live their ideal life, but to fear that you will repeat the same mistakes. Who did not miss a few steps, you know, when you coincidentally walked into the same fork in the road with your parents, and you walked through it easily under the guidance, their...

    • By Angelita 2022-04-23 07:03:55

      Women's Growth Manual

      The quality of the films in the 1990s is really high, the picture, color, dubbing, and editing are all neat and tidy, the storyline is rich and compact, the characters are full, and the acting skills of the actors are too online.

      The film tells about the family relationship of 4 pairs of mother and daughter and the life stories of 8 of them. The incomprehensible conflict between mother and daughter reflects the differences between Chinese and American cultures and the differences...

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    • By Merritt 2023-09-23 10:21:17

      It's not that the spirit of the original book is still there, even Samsung doesn't want to play, too many lines and too many narrations consume watching patience! Most of the time, there are awkward and contrived performances and chanting methods. Love the part of the waverly mother and daughter and the personal performance of the last rose role. The language of the shots originally had the taste of Yang Dechang, but the lines completely destroyed the beauty of the image, and the director was...

    • By Drew 2023-09-16 02:46:14

      I feel like I don't like...

    • By Fay 2023-07-31 15:08:27

      The script is too good, the music is too beautiful, but unfortunately the dialogue is too fake. "We are like going up the stairs, step by step, up or down, repeating the same fate...

    • By Carmine 2023-06-30 14:16:47

      I think the title could also be called "Daughter Red" or "Women's Epic" or something. The sense of story is very strong, but unfortunately there are always some strange elements that distort the image of China, for example, how involuntary the fate of Chinese women is. I like Wu Junmei, and in my mind Sister Meiling's...

    • By Scarlett 2023-05-19 08:23:18

      The hardships and struggles of immigrant women in the old country, and the generation gap and cultural conflict of the second generation are the main thread. China in the story is more like a symbol of darkness, backwardness and suffering, while the United States has family conflicts, but in the end it is peace and joy. . However, what I watched recently, whether it was the Joy Luck Club or Taipei Mom and Dad, made me think that I probably didn't have the kind of tenacity and awareness of the...

    Movie plot

    Four pairs of mothers and daughters in the United States often open "The Joy Luck Club" together. They are Wu Suyuan, Gong Linda, Yingying, Xu Anmei from China and their daughters who were born and raised in the United States: Wu Meili, Violi, Lina, and Lu Silk. Among them, the four mothers are all "American mothers", all "immigrant mothers" from China to the United States, and all have "legendary" experiences in China. Wu Suyuan left...
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    "The Joy Luck Club" is like a tree. The four pairs of mother-daughter relationship develop into branches of different shapes, scattered and luxuriantly growing during the audience's watching of the movie, forming a strange The magnificent world of images (a review of "Shanhua") . The essence of the original film is very vivid. The performance of a group of Asian actresses in the film proves that what they lack in Hollywood is not...
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    Movie quotes

    • June's Father: You know, ever since Mommy died, it's like a mystery where everything is. She hides everything, jewelry, even fake stuff. For three years she tried to tell me where she hides everything in case she died. I guess I wasn't listening.

    • June's Father: She thought: better not die next to my babies. Nobody saves babies with such bad luck. Who wants two babies with ghost mother following them? Very bad luck, very.

    • Jing-Mei 'June' Woo: [opening naration] The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. "This bird", boasted the market vendor, "was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose. And now look, it is too beautiful to eat!" Then the woman and the swan sailed across an ocean many thousands of lei wide, stretching their necks toward America. On her journey, she cooed to the swan, "In America, I will have a daughter just like me. But over there, nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husbands belch. Over there, nobody will look down on her because I will make her speak only perfect American English. And over there, she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow. She will know my meaning because I will give her this swan, a creature that became more than what was hoped for." But when she arrived in the new country the immigration officials pulled the swan away from her, leaving the woman fluttering her arms and with only one swan feather for a memory. For a long time now, the women had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her; "This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions."