Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou
Take Out
The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s raw, vérité Take Out, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to get by on the margins of post-9/11 New York City. Facing violent retaliation from a loan shark, restaurant deliveryman Ming Ding has until nightfall to pay back the money he owes, and he encounters both crushing setbacks and moments of unexpected humanity as he races against time to earn enough in tips over the course of a frantic day. From this simple setup, Baker and Tsou fashion a kind of neorealist survival thriller of the everyday, shedding compassionate light on the too often overlooked lives and labor that keep New York running.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Baker, Tsou, and actor Charles Jang
- New interviews with Baker, Tsou, Jang, and actors Wang-Thye Lee and Jeng-Hua Yu
- Program about the making of the film
- Deleted scenes
- Screen test
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and author J. J. Murphy
New cover by Slang Inc.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Baker, Tsou, and actor Charles Jang
- New interviews with Baker, Tsou, Jang, and actors Wang-Thye Lee and Jeng-Hua Yu
- Program about the making of the film
- Deleted scenes
- Screen test
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and author J. J. Murphy
New cover by Slang Inc.
Cast
- Charles Jang
- Ming Ding
- Jeng-Hua Yu
- Young
- Wang-Thye Lee
- Big sister
- Justin Wan
- Wei
- Jeff Huang
- Ma
Credits
- Director
- Sean Baker
- Director
- Shih-Ching Tsou
- Written by
- Sean Baker
- Written by
- Shih-Ching Tsou
- Produced by
- Sean Baker
- Produced by
- Shih-Ching Tsou
- Edited by
- Sean Baker
- Edited by
- Shih-Ching Tsou
- Camera
- Sean Baker
- Sound
- Sean Baker
- Sound
- Shih-Ching Tsou
- Makeup
- Eva Huang
- Production coordinator
- Badan Wong
- Postproduction supervisor
- Elsa Lai
- Still photographer
- Kenny Pang
Trailer for Take Out
