East Asian Lead Movies

In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, HBO presents a collection of perspectives from a diverse group of Asian Americans.

Following a tumultuous breakup, a young college student tries to win back her ex-girlfriend by performing in a confessional-style poetry slam.

The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and involves the disappearance of a scientist named...

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

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.

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...

An author suddenly finds herself in her own story.

A perfumer and a little tyrant... these two women learn together what courage and justice is.

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

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

Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah assembles a diverse group of eight American men to talk about their experience of race relations in the United States....

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

In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.

Justin is a troubled teen looking for a way out of the gang life. His best friend Charlie is a rich Taiwanese kid who lives in the nice part of town....

AMERICAN SONS is a provocative examination of how racism shapes the lives of Asian American men. A simple but compelling performance piece featuring...

A talented young painter disguises herself as a boy. She finds herself a darling muse to which she starts to fall for.

Kyle and Jen, estranged siblings, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there,...

Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the...

KEYE LUKE is a short film bio-pic about pioneering Actor and Artist Keye Luke, the first, original on-screen Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet decades...

After a visit from the ghost of her sister, a rebellious 16 year old Japanese American girl hits the road with her boyfriend in search of a better...