Miss Wonton

USA, 2001, 87 min

Directed by:

Meng Ong

Screenplay:

Meng Ong

Cinematography:

Tsuyoshi Kimoto

Composer:

Evan Evans

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Young Ah Na comes to New York to work at Buddha’s Happiness Chinese restaurant. She has left bad experiences and the malice of the people in her hometown behind her. Like many other Chinese immigrants, she believes that New York is a place to start over and fulfil her naive conception of the American Dream. Despite the warnings and experiences of her co-workers, she decides to go after her dreams. One day she finds herself at New York’s Grand Central Station where she comes across many immigrant women who are waiting downstairs at the ‘Golden Palace’ for the opportunity to find a man... (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)

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