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2. Gran Torino - Wikipedia

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   Gran Torino. Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the film. This was Eastwood's first starring role since 2004's Million Dollar Baby. The film features a large Hmong-American cast (the first time for an American mainstream film), [4] as well as one of Eastwood's younger sons, Scott.

3. Hmong people - Wikipedia

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   The Hmong immigrant population of Detroit is a central focus of the 2008 film Gran Torino, though that city does not have a significant Hmong population. Religious persecution [ edit ] Hmong Catholics , Protestants and Animists have been subjected to military attacks, police arrest, imprisonment, forced disappearances , extrajudicial killings ...

4. Bee Vang - Wikipedia

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   Fresno, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Actor, activist. Years active. 2008–present. Bee Vang ( RPA: Npis Vaj, Pahawh: 𖬃𖬰𖬨𖬵 𖬖𖬰𖬜, Chinese-Mandarin: 王陛; born November 4, 1991) is an American actor and activist of Hmong descent. He is best known for starring in Clint Eastwood 's 2008 film Gran Torino as Thao Vang Lor.

5. Hmong Americans - Wikipedia

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   The 2008 film Gran Torino, directed by Clint Eastwood, was the first mainstream US film to feature Hmong Americans. Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski , an elderly, racist Korean War veteran living in Detroit, Michigan who befriends a Hmong teenager named Thao, played by Bee Vang , who previously tries to steal his Gran Torino as an initiation into a ...

6. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Wikipedia

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   OCLC. 47352453. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.

7. Hmong customs and culture - Wikipedia

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   The Flower Hmong are known for very brightly colored embroidered traditional costumes with beaded fringe. An important element of Hmong clothing and culture is the paj ntaub, (pronounced pun dow) a complex form of traditional textile art created using stitching, reverse-stitching, and reverse applique.

8. Doua Moua - Wikipedia

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   Doua Moua (born February 7, 1987) is an American actor and writer best known for his roles as Spider in the 2008 film Gran Torino and Po in Disney's live-action Mulan. Background [ edit ] Doua Moua was born in a refugee camp in Thailand to Laos-born parents of Hmong descent who had fled their homeland because of the Laotian Civil War . [1]

9. List of Hong Kong films of 2011 - Wikipedia

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   Wong Ching-po. Juno Mak, Stephy Tang, Jimmy Wang, Gordon Lam, Pat Ha. Action / Crime. In theaters 10 November 2011. Entered into the 2011 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival. Life Without Principle. Johnnie To. Lau Ching-wan, Richie Ren, Denise Ho, Myolie Wu. Crime / Thriller.