East Asian Lead Movies

"...Or Die”, directed by Gregory Bonsignore and John Petaja, satirizes the obstacles today's South Asian Hollywood actors have to deal with.

Frank is in search for a girlfriend but every woman he meets already has a boyfriend. He then seeks out advice from his friends on what to do to...

When a Chinese-Canadian college student returns home to Toronto, she visits a Hong Kong cafe she frequented during her childhood. Through eating the...

Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the...

Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah assembles a diverse group of eight American men to talk about their experience of race relations in the United States....

An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

Following a tumultuous breakup, a young college student tries to win back her ex-girlfriend by performing in a confessional-style poetry slam.

A general is instructed to impersonate Song Yuan and infiltrate the Shen household to intercept military intelligence. In order to do this, she must...

A documentary that explores the increasing visibility of Asian Americans in pop culture since the advent of new media forms such as YouTube.

Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling...

Genral Hua rescues a little beggar maid.

After a visit from the ghost of her sister, a rebellious 16 year old Japanese American girl hits the road with her boyfriend in search of a better...

The Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple had an opportunity to take part in an episode of East of Main Street, an HBO documentary series that has been...

She who plays all day long, either being lazy or stealing food, it is impossible to practice well... And then she who seems to be strict, but is, in...

High school girls who were performing a love charm accidentally summon an evil spirit. Rie, a first-year student at a certain high school, harbors a...

When student journalist Savannah Lin becomes embroiled in the complicated dynamics of a social justice "safe space," she must choose between...

The Fall of the I-Hotel brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction of the International Hotel's tenants culminated a...

In US society, people of East Asian heritage are often perceived through an obscuring lens of ethnic and cultural stereotypes. In STOLEN GROUND, six...

Chink is about an Asian American man who has internalized the racism he felt as a child and turned it into a hatred of all Asians – including...

In the middle of a French exam, 17 year old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself…and his best friend.