I know I am two weeks behind with this, but it’s not like Asian Americans have been flooding entertainment and pop culture (I’m jus’ sayin…)
However, I did finally watch New York, I Love You (a continuation of the much more robust and enjoyable Paris, je t’aime) and despite what some people are saying, there was some diversity in the film.
Actually, there were just a lot of Asians involved in front of and behind the camera of this vignette-driven love letter to the Big Apple.
On the directing side of things, we surprisingly fared well:
Fatih Akin (Turkish – technically, Turkey is Eurasian, but we’ll count him any way.)
Yvan Attal (Israeli)
Shunji Iwai (Japanese)
Wen Jiang (Chinese)
Mira Nair (Indian)
Shekhar Kapur (Pakistani)
There are also three writers to include in the fold:
Hu Hong (Chinese)
Yao Meng (Chinese)
Suketu Mehta (Indian)
In front of the camera, there was some representation as well:
Qi Shu (Taiwanese)
Irrfan Khan (Indian)
Sinsu Co
Ugur Yücel (Turkish)
Richard Chang
Gurdeep Singh
Maggie Q
Vedant Gokhale
That brings the total to: 106
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- Fascinated
- Amused
- Bored
- Sad
- Angry
