Ming Na Movies
- 2004
ER costar Ming-Na is cast as Li Mei Nu, an immigrant woman in search of her missing sister Jiao Wu. The authorities are also interested in catching up with Li Wu, who has apparently abandoned two of her daughters in a squalid apartment. As the SVU detectives pursue the case, it becomes clear that the missing woman was being persecuted by an alien-smuggling gang which uses its "customers" as sweatshop workers and sex slaves. Unfortunately, none of the gang's victims are willing to cooperate with the detectives--especially after Li Mei is savagely beaten on the orders of a corrupt customs attorney. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
When an aging Chinese woman agrees to journey to America to celebrate her seventieth birthday with her two daughters, her son-in-law, and her granddaughter, her presence helps to soothe tensions between her estranged daughters in this family drama from director VV Dachin Hsu. Upon arriving in America, Lee Lai Yinn (Tsai Chan) embarks on an extended road trip through the California wilderness with her Americanized daughters Ming Yee (Kim Miyori) and Ming Na. As the rising animosity between the clashing sisters threatens to tear the family apart at the seams, it's up to their wise old mother to patch up old wounds so the family can cut loose the baggage of the past and start life anew. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
