Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
Wayne Wang’s follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director’s signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco’s Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between filial duty and her own desires. Soulfully performed by an ensemble including real-life mother and daughter Kim and Laureen Chew and Victor Wong, the Yasujiro Ozu–inspired Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart is as lovingly made as the home-cooked cuisine it celebrates.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital master of a new director’s cut featuring previously unseen footage, supervised by director Wayne Wang, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New conversation between Wang and filmmaker and film scholar Arthur Dong
- Interview from 2004 with actor Laureen Chew
- English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Brian Hu
New cover by Josh Cochran
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital master of a new director’s cut featuring previously unseen footage, supervised by director Wayne Wang, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New conversation between Wang and filmmaker and film scholar Arthur Dong
- Interview from 2004 with actor Laureen Chew
- English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Brian Hu
New cover by Josh Cochran
Cast
- Laureen Chew
- Geraldine Tam
- Kim Chew
- Mrs. Tam
- Victor Wong
- Uncle Tam
- Ida F. O. Chung
- Auntie May
- Cora Miao
- Julia
- John Nishio
- Richard
- Amy Hill
- Amy Tam
- Keith Choy
- Kevin Tam
- Mary Chew
- Old m.j. player
- Nora Lee
- Old m.j. player
- Joan Chen
- Young m.j. player
- Rita Yee
- Young m.j. player
- George Woo
- Bar patron
Credits
- Director
- Wayne Wang
- Produced by
- Tom Sternberg
- Produced by
- Wayne Wang
- Produced by
- Danny Yung
- Executive producer
- Vincent Tai
- Screenplay
- Terrel Seltzer
- Based on an idea by
- Terrel Seltzer
- Based on an idea by
- Laureen Chew
- Based on an idea by
- Wayne Wang
- Associate producer
- Emily Leung
- Director of photography
- Michael Chin
- Editor
- Ralph Wikke
- Music
- Todd Boekelheide
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A scene from Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
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