Laureen Chew

The delicate spirit of Yasujirō Ozu’s domestic dramas lives on in Wayne Wang’s gentle portrait of a Chinese-American household unsettled by the tides of change. Words of love, care, and even grievance spill over mouth-watering family meals, where food becomes a conduit for cultural inheritance.

In San Francisco’s Chinatown, a cabbie and his nephew set out to find the eponymous mystery man, who’s vanished without a trace, along with all their savings. But what begins as a search for a missing man gradually turns into a far deeper and more elusive investigation…