Season 9, Ep. 3: Hundred Percent

Episode 3 of Saturday Season Semester 9 -- where we bask in the glow of our "Stars of Asian American Cinema" -- takes us back to the '90s. 1998's "Hundred Percent," directed by Eric Koyanagi, came out post-"Joy Luck Club," as Asian American filmmakers were experimenting with style, shedding the burden of representation and embracing hotness + silliness. There are three main storylines. A Venice cafe owner (the sweet and smiley Dustin Nguyen) crushes on a mysterious New Yorker (Tamlyn Tomita), who is on the run from a toxic ex-boyfriend. An aspiring actor (Garrett Wang) deals poorly with the stressors of being an Asian male actor in the '90s and puts his relationship with girlfriend (Lindsay Price) at risk. Two wannabe-Rastafarian potheads (Darion Basco and Keiko Agenda) accidentally get caught up in some criminal shenanigans. It's out of print, so we watched it on a DVD Brian kept from 2006. But there are four university libraries that carry it: UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, Sarah Lawrence and Tufts. (Shout out to universities with impressive Asian American media collections.)

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This episode is 23:25 long.

This episode was published on Sep 14, 2024.

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