TIFF veteran Wayne Wang, often overlooked for his importance in the history of modern U.S.-Asian cinema, returned to the festival with his latest film Coming Home Again, which tells the story of a …
TIFF veteran Wayne Wang, often overlooked for his importance in the history of modern U.S.-Asian cinema, returned to the festival with his latest film, which tells the story of a Korean-American man who cares for his sick mother while trying to learn her traditional recipes.
“[The inspiration] was an article by a friend of mine called Chang-rae Lee,” Wang told us when he stopped by the Deadline studio. “The article was called “Coming Home Again”, and it’s about his mother, who was dying of stomach cancer, so he took a year off from work to take care of her. That was written in 1995, and it was published in the. It’s [a] very detailed [piece of writing]. It has a lot of nuances. It’s about his own mother, and I guess it’s always sort of hit me.
For Jackie Chung, who plays the mother, the experience was very emotional. “I tried to do a little bit of research, but we were lucky that we had someone on set who was very familiar with cancer, and how it affects the body,” she said. “She was there all the time, because every day was different.
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