Chan Is Missing

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

1.9K

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Two cab drivers search San Francisco's Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.

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Two cab drivers search San Francisco's Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.Two cab drivers search San Francisco's Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.Two cab drivers search San Francisco's Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination

Trivia
Widely recognized as the first Asian-American narrative feature to gain theatrical distribution.

Quotes
Henry the Cook: [reading a meal order and switching back and forth between English and Chinese or Cantonese] Egg rolls, sweet and sour pork, won ton soup. Five won ton soup
[speaks a few words in Chinese or Cantonese]
Henry the Cook: . We don't have won ton soup. We have won ton spelled backwards: 'not now.'

Connections
Edited into The Green Fog (2017)

Soundtracks
(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock
(uncredited)
Written by James E. Myers (as Jimmy De Knight) and Max Freedman
Sung in Chinese during the opening scene

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Review

Featured review

10/10

Terrific independent film, from a time when that word meant something

Just watched the DVD, and Chan is Missing remains the one-off film it's always been - just a terrific little film. If people think the pap they call independent film today is anything but lower-budgeted mainstream film-making by people looking to get deals with majors, well, they should check out some real indy films. Thanks to companies like Miramax and Focus and others, there is no true independent film market anymore.

And a not to "laursene" - you give Chan Is Missing a pretty nice "review" or whatever one calls these amateur writings, and yet you give it one star. Brilliant. And the "novelty" song "probably from the 30s" is I Enjoy Being A Girl by Rodgers and Hammerstein, from their musical Flower Drum Song, which was hardly written in the 30s. 1957 or '58 if I recall correctly.