Chan Is Missing | 1982
- Locations |
- San Francisco, California
- DIRECTOR |
- Wayne Wang
- CAST |
- Wood Moy,
- Marc Hayashi,
- Laureen Chew
The first feature-length US movie to be produced entirely by a Chinese-American cast and crew was also the first movie from director Wayne Wang (before The Joy Luck Club and Smoke).
Two taxi drivers fruitlessly try to track down the elusive Chan, who’s disappeared with $2,000.
The film was shot around San Francisco’s Chinatown, the largest Chinese community in the US outside of New York, which grew up in the early 19th century around Portsmouth Square when Chinese immigrants fled war and famine in Canton.
It covers the area between Broadway, Bush Street, Powell Street and Kearny Street to the east. Grant Avenue, running north-south through the area, is tourists’ Chinatown. Stockton Street, running parallel and just to the west, is its real heart.
Much of Chan is Missing was filmed around Ross Alley, a small street between Grant Street and Stockton Street.
