![]() In a voiceover, June reveals that her mother was the one who started The Joy Luck Club after meeting the three other women at church after they had all emigrated to the United States from China. Suyuan had abandoned them by the side of the road while escaping an invasion by the Japanese during World War II, but viewers don't learn why until near the end of the movie.Īt the party, June is called to a side room by her “aunties” to take her mom's place to play a game of mahjong. ![]() It is soon revealed that her mother Suyuan (Kieu Chinh) died four months previously, and friends and family have gathered to bid farewell to June before she travels to China to meet her older twin sisters for the first time. The movie toggles back and forth in time to tell these tales, with the seminal scene taking place in San Francisco at a surprise going-away party for June Woo (Ming-Na Wen). But after recently rewatching the movie for the first time in more than a decade, I was reminded that the story also includes brief backstories on the grandmothers - the women who gave birth to their daughters in China, but never left their country of birth. ![]() ![]() Those who've read the book or seen the 1993 film based on author Amy Tan's bestselling novel of the same name already know that the story revolves around the often-tempestuous relationships between four Chinese mothers and their born-in-America daughters. Timing-wise, it is fitting that “The Joy Luck Club” is showing on the big screen at the Mount Baker Theatre on the evening before Mother's Day. ![]()
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