East Asian Lead Movies

Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muaythai boxer who underwent a sex change operation to become a woman.

Yeon-Seo (Yang Ha-Eun) majors in music at an university. She travels to Seoul to meet her older sister Jin-Seo. When she arrives at her sister's...

Chink is about an Asian American man who has internalized the racism he felt as a child and turned it into a hatred of all Asians – including...

Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has...

A political secretary visits their cousin in hopes to understand why certain policies threaten that family member's way of life.

Inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei, Allegiance follows one family's extraordinary journey in this untold American story...

Ronny Chieng shares his rage at online critics, gratitude for nerds, bewilderment with irrational skeptics and unique cure for racism in this special.

In the middle of a French exam, 17 year old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself…and his best friend.

Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian...

17-year-old Jane begins to embrace her background and rekindle her relationship with her mother when she becomes immersed in Chinese culture at her...

In US society, people of East Asian heritage are often perceived through an obscuring lens of ethnic and cultural stereotypes. In STOLEN GROUND, six...

Frank is in search for a girlfriend, but every woman he meets already has a boyfriend. He then seeks out advice from his friends on what to do to...

Renee Tajima-Peña takes to the road to investigate questions about Asian-American identity.

Everyone is happy for rising Asian American actor GQ Qi – the network, his mother, his best friend – everyone except GQ himself....

The first and only Taiwanese player for the New York Yankees, Chien-Ming Wang held many titles: American League Wins Leader, World Series Champion,...

Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of...

A Yu's cute neighbor, Lao Wang, has a plan to steal her heart.

An old, bigoted Japanese-American traditionalist is unable to reconcile the needs of his wife and two daughters with his own conservative view on...

Based on actual events surrounding a New Zealand drug scandal that involved the murder of Martin Johnstone of the UK, in the early 1070's. Johnstone...

A documentary that explores the increasing visibility of Asian Americans in pop culture since the advent of new media forms such as YouTube.