Pushing Hands (film)

Pushing Hands
Pushing Hands
	Taiwanese DVD cover
Traditional Chinese	推手
Hanyu Pinyin	Tuī Shǒu
Directed by	Ang Lee
Written by	Ang Lee; James Schamus
Produced by	Emily Yi-ming Liu; Feng Chyt Jiang
Starring	Sihung Lung; Lai Wang; Bo Z. Wang; Deb Snyder; Haan Lee;
Cinematography	Jong Lin
Edited by	Ang Lee; Tim Squyres
Music by	Tai-An Hsu; Xiao-Song Qu
Production; companies	Central Motion Pictures; Ang Lee Productions
Distributed by	Central Motion Pictures(Taiwan); Cinépix Film Properties (US)
Release dates	December 7, 1991 (Taiwan); April 1992 (WorldFest Houston);
Running time	105 minutes
Countries	Taiwan; United States
Languages	Mandarin; English

Pushing Hands (Chinese: 推手; pinyin: Tuī Shǒu) is a 1991 comedy-drama film directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee, his feature directorial debut. It stars Sihung Lung as a Chinese tai chi master living in New York, who struggles to find his place in the world. The film shows the contrast between traditional Chinese ideas of Confucian relationships within a family and the much more informal Western emphasis on the individual. Together with Ang Lee's two following films, The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), it forms his "Father Knows Best" trilogy, each of which deals with conflicts between an older and more traditional generation and their children as they confront a world of change.

The Taiwanese-American co-production was produced independently by Lee and Ted Hope, and features several of Lee's frequent collaborators, including screenwriter James Schamus and editor Tim Squyres. It was released theatrically in Taiwan, but did not see a wide release in the United States for several years, after the success of The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman.^[1] It was critically well-received, and earned several accolades, including three Golden Horse Awards.

^ Dariotis and Fung, p. 193.

[1] Dariotis and Fung, p. 193.

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