![]() In China, four-year-old Lindo (Ying Wu) is arranged, by her mother and the matchmaker, to be married to Huang Tai Tai's son when she grows up. The mothers have high hopes for their daughters' success, but the daughters struggled through "anxiet feelings of inadequacy and failure." The mothers and daughters grow to know each other better and bond by the telling and learning of each mothers past to understand each other and overcoming their conflicts. Suyuan's daughter June (Ming-Na Wen) replaced her in the mahjong group when Suyuan died four months before the time the film is set. They immigrated from China, remarried, and gave birth to children in America. The members have mainly played mahjong and told each other's stories over the years. ![]() Clair (France Nuyen), An-Mei Hsu (Lisa Lu), and Suyuan Woo (Kieu Chinh), in San Francisco. The Joy Luck Club was formed by four women Lindo Jong (Tsai Chin), Ying-Ying St. The characters narrate their journeys while they reflect upon their pasts. The film begins with June's short narrative prologue about the swan feather in the opening credits and then her farewell surprise party in San Francisco for June's upcoming reunion with her long-lost twin sisters in China.Īmong the guests are members of The Joy Luck Club, their daughters, other relatives, and friends. The similarities between the four families are the Chinese traditions and culture that each of the mothers had to deal with in China where everything was done in service to the males, how the mothers brought their experiences into their relationships with their daughters, and how the daughters in turn have been able to cope with their own lives as a result as being ethnic Chinese within American society. It is during the party that the stories of the four mothers and their respective daughters are told in flashback. ![]() Upon Suyuan's recent passing, June has been expected to take her seat at the mah jong table with the three other women, the latest game taking place at a party with all the families in attendance on the eve of June traveling to China to deal with some family business specifically related to her mother. ![]() They have led somewhat parallel lives in each having a US-born, now young adult daughter, each around the same age: June, Waverly, Lena and Rose, respectively. Having met thirty years ago at church, Suyuan, Lindo, Ying-Ying and An-Mei, all Chinese immigrants who settled in San Francisco, have been best friends since, their offspring who euphemistically refer to those women not their mother as auntie. ![]()
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