Pushing Hands Ang Lee Digital Life VHS

Pushing Hands
starring: Bo Z. Wang, Bin Chao, Victor Chan, Lester Chit-Man Chan, Fanny De Luz
directed by: Ang Lee

Used Price: $12.60
Third Party New Price: $29.99

Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303920672
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303920675
Label: Triboro Entertainment
Manufacturer: Triboro Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Triboro Entertainment
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 18775
Studio: Triboro Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1995

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Mr. Chu is a recently widowed tai-chi master who moves from Beijing to New York to live with his son. Chu's American daughter-in-law, Martha, can't stand having him around the house. He finds her Western ideas on raising children and keeping a home to be curious at best. These conflicts test family bonds and Mr. Chu's highly developed sense of balance. This was the first feature as a director for Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility) and has many of the hallmarks of his later, better-known works: finely observed characters, gentle yet pointed humor, and the ability to see and understand both sides of a cultural divide. The charismatic Sihung Lung (who also starred in Lee's The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman) plays Chu with strength and understatement, but Deb Snyder is miscast in a thankless role. The title refers to a tai-chi exercise that's at the center of the film's best scene, a standoff in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant. --Geof Miller

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- Tai Chi
Don't fall into the trap of thinking all Tai Chi masters are enlightened beings. I have met a fair few masters with stubborn ego's in my time! wonderful film.

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- Beautiful Movie
This movie was so very poignant. The American wife Martha was really good. Who is this actress. I'd like to see more of her on films.

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- Crosscultural masterpiece, interesting for tai chi overview
While Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon shot Ang Lee into household ranks for his fluid, creative martial arts histrionics, this is no less a masterpiece in the somewhat more subdued version of Kung Fu -- the chinese art of Tai Chi.

The story is wrapped around an old Mr. Chu,a tai chi master (played almost effortlessly by Sihung Lung) who has moved from the rigors of a Beijing life to settle down in the suburbs of NY with his son Alex and his American wife, who's a novelist working from home. Mr Chu is at his wit's end, in a new culture, sans the language, spending his days watching Hong Kong videos vocally critiquing the Kung Fu moves much to the obvious chagrin of his American daughter in law.

While the pretext is predictable (They Dont Get Along), the emotional tussle of his son as an intermediary between his wife and father is well told, even comical at times. The film explores the Chinese ethic ... Read More

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- What can i say? Ang Lee is a god with a human touch!
I can't think of another director like Ang Lee, in that his films are so vastly different from each other yet all are so great, each in their own unique way.

Like many of his films (including Crouching Tiger), this one stars Sihung Lung, a great Chinese actor who unfortunately died of liver failure last month (May 2002) after filming "The Touch." He is amazing to watch, as usual, and plays very credibly in Pushing Hands as a Tai Chi master who moves to New York City to live with his son, his son's tightly strung Euro-American daughter in law and their bilingual child.

The "parent immigrates to live with children and doesn't fit in" story has been told many ways in many films, but somehow i doubt many of the rest of them are this human, this insightful, or this delightfully humorous.

It's really hard for one who hasn't seen Pushing Hands to imagine from the title, the tagline, the trailer ... Read More

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