Arthouse 50: Chan Is Missing

(1982) San Francisco cab drivers Wood Moy and Marc Hayashi search the streets of Chinatown and question local characters in search of the mysterious eponymous character who ran off with their money, in Neo-Noir comedy made on a budget of $22,000 by director/co-writer Wang – the first major American independent by a Chinese American.

“A raunchy, sprawling and completely unpredictable panorama of the Chinese-American experience… It is sometimes wildly comic, sometimes melancholy, sometimes suspenseful and often strangely touching.” – Time Out

2K Restoration overseen by writer/director Wayne Wang in collaboration with the Criterion Collection and Strand Releasing.

(Featured in Roxie printed calendars, 1981 & 1986)