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30 May 1986 (USA) morePlot:
When computer programmer, Leo Fang, is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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1 win & 2 nominations moreUser Comments:
watch for the historical view of BeiJing in 1986 and cultural notes more (3 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Peter Wang | ... | Leo Fang |
| Sharon Iwai | ... | Grace Fang |
 | Kelvin Han Yee | ... | Paul Fang |
| Qinqin Li | ... | Lili Chao |
| Xiaoguang Hu | ... | Mr. Chao |
| Guanglan Shen | ... | Mrs. Chao |
| Kelvin Wong | ... | Liu Yida (as Wang Xiao) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Jan Haley | ... | Secretary |
| Jeanette Pavini | ... | Linda |
| Han Tan | ... | Old Liu |
| Jian Xiu | ... | Yu |
| Ran Zhijuan | ... | Jan |
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Beijing StoryBeijing gushi (China: Mandarin title)
The Great Wall Is a Great Wall (USA)
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The movie is a good concept with amateur / poor execution. But the scenes -- on the street, in the hotongs, courtyards, and streets of Beijing are just amazing. Beijing today is an amazing metropolis, and in this movie, in 1986, it has more the feeling of an overgrown village. you get somewhat unintentional glimpses of poverty and poorly maintained infrastructure -- Beijing in 2006 is far more cosmopolitan in places, with both much greater energy and wealth than you will see here and also more filth and poverty. The cultural notes are mostly still relevant, though the rampant capitalism, scheming and vitality of today's BJ make for a very different city. the Beijing of this movie is as lost as the "LA" of Chinatown (the movie) circa 1930's.....
so as history and culture lesson the movie is a 10. 'the world of Susie Wong' works as both history and movie; this one is just good history!