Jo and Steve need their $4,000 back from their cab licensing go-between. What they get instead is a tour through San Francisco’s Chinatown, with stops at some of its most charismatic and enigmatic Chinese-American residents. Each person they meet holds up a kaleidoscope to the Chinese-American experience, muddying their picture of Chan and of their very culture.

- “Chan is Missing: Reflecting on an Unsolved Mystery” by Andrea Bruiser on Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/02/17/chan-is-missing-reflecting-on-an-unsolved-mystery/

- EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: WAYNE WANG (Oct. 2008) on Jesther Entertainment: http://jestherent.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-wayne-wang.html

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "忍" by Sam Hui from the CHAN IS MISSING soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 216: CHAN IS MISSING (1982)

7:42 - A complex picture of disjointed identity

16:57 - Unique characters & their forced assimilation

26:03 - San Francisco as a haven and a prison

29:02 - Describing, not prescribing, the Chinese American experience

32:36 - Bullshit “accept the mystery” takes about this movie

39:21 - How CHAN IS MISSING uses noir tropes

58:18 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

1:02:44 - Where is the Trylove/Where’s the Trylove (missing persons movie trivia)