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Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed and co-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.
Bee Vang. Bee Vang ( RPA: Npis Vaj, Pahawh: ๐ฌ๐ฌฐ๐ฌจ๐ฌต ๐ฌ๐ฌฐ๐ฌ, Chinese-Mandarin: ็้; 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.
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.
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 ...
(FOX 9) - In the film, "Bitterroot", the Hmong American experience takes center stage. But the movie is also shining a light on Southeast Asian filmmakers here in the Twin Cities.
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons [1] [4] ( Chinese: ่ฅฟ้ยท้้ญ็ฏ) is a 2013 fantasy comedy film co-written and produced by Stephen Chow and co-directed by Chow and Derek Kwok. [5] The movie was first announced in July 2011 and was released on February 10, 2013 in China. [1] The film is a loose comedic re-interpretation of the ...
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.
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 ...