Eat a Bowl of Tea

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Eat a Bowl of Tea is a 1989 film adaptation of Louis Chu’s novel that explores Chinese American life and generational conflict in New York’s Chinatown after World War II.

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Label Occurrences
Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel) 2
Eat a Bowl of Tea canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf 1980s film
film
romantic comedy-drama film
authorOfSourceWork Louis Chu
basedOn Eat a Bowl of Tea self-linksurface differs
surface form: Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel)
castMember Cora Miao
Eric Tsang
Judy Ongg
Lau Siu-Ming
Lois Foraker
Russell Wong
Soon-Tek Oh
Stan Egi
Victor Wong
cinematographer Michael Chin
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depictsEthnicGroup Chinese Americans
depictsSocialIssue assimilation
generation gap
patriarchy
director Wayne Wang
distributor Columbia Pictures
editor Maysie Hoy NERFINISHED
filmingLocation New York City
San Francisco
genre comedy-drama film
drama film
romantic film
hasAdaptationSource Eat a Bowl of Tea self-linksurface differs
surface form: Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel)
mainCharacter Ben Loy
Lee Gong
Mei Oi
Wah Gay
mainTheme Chinese American life
generational conflict
immigrant experience
marriage and sexuality
musicBy Mark Adler
narrativeLocationTime post-World War II era
notableFor early Asian American cinema representation
originalLanguage Cantonese
English
producer Tom Sternberg
releaseYear 1989
runtimeMinutes 102
screenwriter Judith Rascoe NERFINISHED
Wayne Wang
setIn Chinatown, Manhattan
surface form: Manhattan Chinatown

New York City

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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
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- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Eat a Bowl of Tea
Description of subject: Eat a Bowl of Tea is a 1989 film adaptation of Louis Chu’s novel that explores Chinese American life and generational conflict in New York’s Chinatown after World War II.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Victor Wong notableWork Eat a Bowl of Tea
Eat a Bowl of Tea basedOn Eat a Bowl of Tea self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel)
Eat a Bowl of Tea hasAdaptationSource Eat a Bowl of Tea self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel)