A Generation of Asian Films and the Sister I Left in Huế

The loneliness Edward Yang filmed; a twenty-year window in Asian cinema worth bringing back.

It is summer 1995. The kitchen phone is ringing, and my mother answers. The long cord stretches around the counter while she returns to the stove, where breakfast is cooking. It's a weekend, and my brother is outside with neighborhood kids. I am nine years old, and we have been living in Houston for a few years.

I don’t remember any specific calls, just…