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You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Kieu Chinh Suyuan - The Mother Tsai Chin Lindo - The Mother France Nuyen June - The Daughter Tamlyn Tomita Waverly - The Daughter Lauren Tom Lena - The Daughter Rosalind Chao June's Father Melanie Chang June - Age 9 Victor Wong Old Chong Lisa Connolly Singing Girl Mai Vu Lindo - Age 4 Meijuan Xi Edit Storyline Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past.

Genres: Drama. Edit Did You Know? In the waning of the glow of Joy Luck Club, further Asian American stories were mostly shot down by studios after the brief rush following the film.

In , Ronald Bass , the producer of the film, revealed that a sequel is in the works, waiting to be picked up by a studio or a network.

Both a TV series pilot script and a sequel feature film script have been made. The intention is to reunite the original cast for the sequel, making the film's mothers into grandmothers and daughters into mothers, with Millennial children, in a three-generation story, following the developments of the families since the original film.

The setting would be years after the setting of the film. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Joy Luck Club Theatrical release poster.

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The label rejected their planned followup, [5] and the band consequently left Warner and signed to Interscope Records , [5] changing their name to Artificial Joy Club at the same time.

They had a No. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Then the film transitions to June's farewell surprise party in San Francisco for her upcoming reunion with her long-lost twin sisters in China.

Among the guests are members of The Joy Luck Club, their daughters, other relatives, and friends. The following characters below narrate their journeys to the audience while they reflect upon their pasts.

Huang's Huang Tai Tai son when she grows up. When Lindo turns 15 Irene Ng , she left her family to get married to Huang's son, Tyan Hu William Gong , a prepubescent boy who has no interest in her.

She spent four years in a childless and loveless marriage, enduring Mrs. Huang's abuse for not producing her a grandson. Once Lindo eavesdropped on the servant girl Ping telling her lover that she is pregnant and saw him abandon her.

Lindo realized her chance to leave the marriage without dishonoring herself, her family, and her in-laws. Lindo purportedly ruined her clothes and then claimed that she had a nightmare in which Tyan Hu's ancestor threatened to punish her, Tyan Hu, and the matchmaker.

Lindo claimed that the ancestor impregnated the servant girl Ping with Tyan Hu's child, and he was offended by her marriage. Huang did not believe Lindo until she verified Ping's pregnancy through inspection.

Lindo claimed that the matchmaker intentionally and wrongly paired Lindo and Tyan Hu for money. Furious, Mrs. Huang ordered the matchmakers out of her family's life, allowed the servant girl to have her marriage, and eventually got the grandson she desired.

Lindo was able to leave the house and move to Shanghai. Aged between six and nine, Waverly Mai Vu has become a chess champion. Annoyed by Lindo using her to "show off" to people on the streets, Waverly shouts at her mother and decides to quit chess.

When she tries to play it again, Waverly had lost her confidence, prompting her to retire from chess. In order to make Lindo like Rich, Waverly brought him to a family dinner, but he failed to impress them especially by improperly using chopsticks and insulting Lindo's cooking by dousing the dish with soy sauce, humiliating Waverly.

Some time later, Lindo and the reluctant Waverly went to a hair salon to get their hair done for Waverly's upcoming wedding, where Waverly began her own narrative about her conflicts with her mother.

After Lindo's shampooing, when Waverly directed the stylist on how Lindo's hair needed to be done, Lindo was offended that her daughter was embarrassed by her in front of the future in-laws and became reluctant to attend the wedding.

Seeing that Lindo's decision devastated Waverly, Lindo then told her about one of her moments with her own mother.

When Waverly asked whether Lindo liked Rich, Lindo admitted that she liked Rich very much as her son-in-law and then gives Waverly and Rich her blessings, leading her and Waverly to reconcile.

Back at June's farewell party, Rich almost successfully uses chopsticks but accidentally drops a piece and impresses Lindo by trying to respect the Chinese table manners.

In China, Ying-Ying St. Then, Lin-Xiao begins abusing her and has multiple affairs while completely disassociating himself from her.

Overwhelmed by her depression, Ying-Ying begins to dissociate and accidentally drowns their baby son in the bathtub during one of these episodes, which haunts her afterwards.

Years later, she has emigrated to America and suffers from bouts of depression from the trauma as well as worrying her daughter Lena Lauren Tom will suffer as well.

Ying-Ying learns that Lena is uncomfortable with her financial arrangements with Harold. They split the costs of their life evenly with a list of things that they share, making their home life contentious.

Seeing that Lena is unhappy with her marriage, Ying-Ying reasserts herself by knocking over a table in the bedroom and causing a vase to fall from the table and break.

Hearing the sudden noise, Lena goes to her mother and admits her unhappiness. Ying-Ying tells Lena she should leave and not come back until Harold gives her what she wants.

Lena is hesitant but Ying-Ying comforts her and tells her that it's not too late to do so. She is reunited with her long-lost mother Vivian Wu , who was disowned by her family for her " dalliance " with a wealthy middle-aged man named Wu-Tsing Wu Tianming , who has three other wives, making An-Mei's mother the Fourth Wife shortly after her husband's death.

An Mei's mother also arrives to see her dying mother Lucille Soong. In order to not lose her again, An-Mei moves out with her mother to Wu-Tsing's house against her relatives' wishes for her to remain with them.

Moments later, An-Mei's mother destroys the necklace, which turns out to be made of glass. Later, An-Mei learns the truth of how her mother became a Fourth Wife: While her mother was at the temple mourning the death of her husband, the Second Wife met and befriended her, enticing her to meet Wu-Tsing who raped and impregnated her.

The mother's relatives refused to believe she had been raped and kicked her out of the house. With nowhere else to go, the mother reluctantly agreed to become Wu-Tsing's Fourth Wife.

After the mother gave birth to a boy, An-Mei's half-brother, the Second Wife took him, claiming him as her own.

After telling An-Mei the truth about her situation, the mother commits suicide by eating "sticky sweet dumplings " laced with opium , choosing the day of her death carefully to threaten Wu-Tsing with the vengeance of her angry ghost.

Ted is initially attracted to Rose's assertive, forthright nature. When he confronts his aristocratic mother Diane Baker for insulting Rose due to her race, Rose is impressed and agrees to marry him.

Over the course of their marriage, however, Rose and Ted become distant from each other, mainly because Rose, desperate to prove herself to Ted's milieu, becomes submissive and demure at the cost of her own identity and interests.

They have a daughter, Jennifer, but this doesn't resolve their marital problems. To complicate matters more, Rose suspects that Ted has cheated on her with another woman, which he asserts is not the main reason for their problems.

Some time later, An-Mei comes for a visit and relays the story of her own mother's fate to Rose. She encourages Rose to stand up to Ted for herself and for Jennifer, or nothing will change.