Noah Cho is Hyphen’s film editor. You can find him on Twitter @a_multiracial, where he mostly tweets about his dog and
putting cheese on ramyun.
Noah Cho
Funded by the Masses
Crowdfunding sites democratize the playing field for Asian American documentary filmmakers
In early 2014, identical twin sisters Samantha and Anaïs began appearing in the news and talk shows. Their story was a fascinating one: Korean twin sisters, adopted into two different families. One of them, Samantha Futerman, grew up in the United States; the other, Anaïs Bordier, grew up in France. Through a series of coincidences and the magic of Facebook and YouTube, they were finally able to reunite in person.
On the 20th Anniversary of 'The Joy Luck Club'
The Joy Luck Club seemed like a groundbreaking film for Asian Americans. Two decades later, it hasn't held up well.
Film Review: 'The Raid 2: Berandal'
The Raid 2: Berandal shares some of the same narrative flaws as its predecessor, but it's still a film martial arts fans should see.
CAAMFest 2014 Kicks Off!
Get ready for this year's CAAMFest, screening March 14-24th in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland.
Cheng Huan's Ghost Haunts 'How I Met Your Mother'
In attempting to pay tribute to Chinese culture, filmmaker D.W. Griffith created several Orientalist images that have, unfortunately, stood the test of time. The ghost of Cheng Huan, and all he embodied, still haunts Asian American representation in the media today.
Books: War by Proxy
My family’s trauma has always
captivated me, but I’ve always known that it was only one story in a sea of
millions. That sea is what Sheila Miyoshi Jaeger explores in Brothers at War, a detailed and
captivating look at the circumstances, causes, and effects of the Korea War.
Books: Sophisticated, Razor-Tongued Strangers
The stories in the collection display this contradiction between the old and new
worlds, and of how America and views about America both bind and destroy
families.
Book: A Cup of Coffee and a Murder
Higashino’s latest
novel Salvation of a Saint plays out far more
traditionally than his previous The Devotion of Suspect X, with a
whodunit plot, several possible suspects, alibis, wronged women, and
implausible explanations for the murder.
Books: The Indifferent Detective
What Lin seems to have set out to do is create a noir
protagonist of color, and to undermine the seedy depiction of Chinatowns that
has existed in the popular mainstream as being populated by nameless and
faceless Chinese people.
Books: Freedom is Another Word for Grilled Meat
Harden’s
book is remarkable in the way that it charts the growth of Shin, from a child
born to prisoners, to a young, angry student, to a skillful survivor, to a
disaffected adult, and, finally, to an activist.
Books: Cultural Evolutions
Memoirs
of a Eurasian deals primarily with the story of Mo Mo, the daughter of a
half-Russian, half-Chinese music teacher and an unknown Chinese father.
Books: The Wreckage of Friendship
Don
Lee’s latest novel, The Collective,
centers around three Asian American friends who meet during their college
years and eventually go on to create an Asian American artistic collective in
Boston.
Books: Survivors, Broken People, and the Lonely
Lee explores and highlights several aspects of Koreans and Korean Americans that are never discussed outside of the confines of those cultures.