The Joy Luck Club - 1993 - 7/10

In 2018, Crazy Rich Asians was released with exclamations of “Finally, Asians are represented!”
Disingenuous for anyone who ever watched a Shaw Brothers actioner, Toho production, etc …
Plus, twenty-five years earlier, The Joy Luck Club was a huge hit with a predominantly Chinese cast.
Four older female friends meet to play mahjong and comment on their daughters.
As with too many mother-daughter relationships, mothers see disappointments.
Four stories of the mothers’ lives / existence in China.
Four stories of the daughters’ lives in San Francisco.
Reconciliations are somewhat pat, the men are clueless.
Still, each story delivers emotionally and the film towers above today’s “card” flicks.