Known for Acting
To the outside world, everything in their lives is going well for them. But three professional women in their 30s try to find their own personal happiness outside of their successful careers.
Can you rush true love before its time? Shu Xinkui met Xiang Zhengyang four years ago and got married after a whirlwind romance of only a couple of months. But as the stress of married life sets in – trying to get used to each other’s habits and dealing with the extended in-laws – the young couple begins to bicker and ends up divorcing just six months into their marriage. Four years later, Xin Kui and Zheng Yang meet up again when they both start working together as managers-in-training at the same hotel. As the same chemistry they initially felt toward each other starts to brew, can Xinkui and Zhengyang make a relationship work the second time around?
A sequel to the 1988 award winning documentary, "Slaying the Dragon," this film looks at the past 25 years of representation of Asian and Asian American women in U.S. visual media -- from blockbuster films and network television to Asian American cinema and YouTube -- to explore what's changed, what's been recycled, and what we can hope for in the future.
