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The Joy Luck Club

Name: The Joy Luck Club
Director: Wayne Wang
Genre: Drama
Released: 1993-09-08
Cast: Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao

Drama

Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.

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Cast

Tsai ChinKieu ChinhLisa LuFrance NuyenRosalind ChaoLauren TomTamlyn TomitaMing-Na WenMichael Paul ChanAndrew McCarthyChristopher RichRussell Wong

Director

Wayne Wang

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